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Between the Loch, the River & the Canal
Keeping to the old Celtic obsessions with water: Walking along the canal now offers many challenging sites. The old bargemen would turn in their watery graves to see how much has changed. There is no respect now for the canal that is full of shopping trolleys & Buckfast bottles.
Young girls perhaps 10 years old gather under the bridges with their boyfriends. At least they did try & hide their bottles of lethal cider from my eyes. Others line the banks of the canal to drink. What has gone wrong? Is there no hope? No childhood for these kids who think it is smart to get drunk?
I am remided of the book I am reading by Patrick MacGill ‘Children of the Dead End’: a harrowing tale of the Irish navvies conditions working throughout Scotland.
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