Shock find – actual new graffiti/murals in Partick

While walking from Dumbarton Road to Riverside, I was amazed to find actual, new graffiti and murals on the arches near the river, and the railway.

This was more than a little unexpected, since previous visits had only found increasing amounts of moronic, illegible ‘word graffiti’ being plastered over the good stuff.

The wall of smily faces is now all but gone, along with almost everything that used to be on the underpass walls below the expressway.

This used to be a view with some fun graffiti and murals – now it’s just a mass of largely illegible words.

Carry on through the underpasses (nothing worth looking at there at the moment, although there used to be), and you arrive at the railway arches/supports for the track.

This was a surprise, as my last pass of those supports was almost 100% moronic word graffiti, sprayed over the existing art graffiti and murals – now, there’s a good selection of interesting material to be seen there.

An electrical box completely covered in weirdness.

Is someone in love?

Oops 😳 Didn’t notice what that said until I saw the enlargement 🥱

A bit of variety.

There’s more to come.

But I think a max of four or five pics is enough for one post, especially for me, as I have to fettle the pics, especially if there’s something I have to obscure (like mindless word graffiti).

Partick Bridge – I think they’ve finished it

It can be surprising when you see something finished after watching it ‘In Progress’ for ages.

You get used to it, and almost forget to look.

I’d forgotten how the last view I took of the bridge looked, this one.

Caught for the missing section in the middle of the shot, and the safety fencing tied across the incomplete section.

When I passed the same spot yesterday, the fencing was gone, and the missing section restored.

I wasn’t sure what updated shot to take, and ended up going in too close.

Funny how a quite different selection can seem right. Yet at other times, I end up taking near identical views, sometimes months apart.

Maybe the weather makes a difference – last time I was hiding from the cold wind and rain.

This time, the sun was baking everything and I was overheating (overdressed).

Having seen the earlier shot, I’m left wondering about that lighter section, if it was left like that, or matched.

Oh well – guess I’ll have to try to remember to look… AGAIN!

A glimpse of Partick Bridge’s nuts and bolts

I said I’d go back for another look at Partick Bridge while it was still ‘exposed’.

I took a chance on another look at this slightly exposed feature, as a team might suddenly appear and close the thing up, and the opportunity for pics like this will be gone for years.

The weather was still pretty grim, so the pics aren’t good, but better than nothing,

The parapet sections are clamped together by some reasonably substantial nuts and bolts.

I’m guessing there’s a procedure for this – assuming those individual sections are made of cast iron, then overnighting those fasteners will just break those mountings

The capping appears to have its own fastenings, a little smaller, set into the metal.

Not sure if the large divider between the sections of parapet have a name, I’ve never found one on bridge diagrams, although the even larger ones which serves as bases for the bridge lighting were easier to find, and imaginatively named – lighting columns.

The bad light meant a bad pic of this detail, as the wide aperture limited the depth of field, so most details were lost, especially the nice shiny new stud seen inside this feature, reduced to a blob in the shadow.

The one pic that DID have it in focus was ruined, as the vertical fence wire landed right on top of it.

Partick Bridge – major work coming to an end

It’s been frustrating to pass what seemed to be fairly major works (I say ‘major’ simply because of the time taken) on Dumbarton Road’s Partick Bridge over the past few months.

The work area covered the length of the bridge, and the footpath was close for the same distance, including a bus stop.

With so much hardware piled up in a fairly confined fenced space, it wasn’t really possible to see what was being done, or grab a meaningful pic.

This had followed a similar closure along the footpath to the west, where they had spent considerable time refurbishing the fence along the street side of the Partick Pumping Station.

I’d have taken pics when they were done but, sad to say, apart from looking fresher, this looked much the same as it had before they started.

The work site on the bridge was cleared away recently, leaving little to be seen.

There are still some pieces missing, presumably still being worked in a shop somewhere.

Again, this looks much the same as it did before they started (which is, of course, the idea – but that anything that might have been about to fall apart, will not), so the photo opportunity is not really present.

But, I thought I should grab a pic to celebrate the return of the footpath, and the imminent completion of the work.

If I get back in better weather, I might be able to get a pic of the fixings along the exposed top edge of the parapet while the capping is absent.

There’s some decent sized nuts and bolts down there, but a quick pic didn’t work as the security barrier got in the way.