As the Glasgow Subway passes twice under the River Clyde on its route round the stations, its bizarre to consider that folk are shooglin' round the city at a depth below that of where fish swim.
And speaking of fish, there's a bizarre reason that, back in the day before the Subway modernisation happened, Subway drivers were able to smell fish while on duty.
Unfortunately, it wasn't fish from the Clyde but from a former fishmonger that stood less than a stone's throw away from the entrance to West Street station.
J McKechnie & Son fishmonger was unique in that it was located so close to a busy station, and no doubt reaped the benefits from the constant footfall from folk heading to and from the Tradeston and Kingston areas of the city.
A shop that had a hand drawn sign for 'salmon trout' right next to the Subway entrance as if the very station was working in cahoots with the fish shop to provide folk with a wee something to take up the road with them for their tea.
In a documentary made prior to the Subway's closure for modernisation between 1977 and 1980 called 'Glasgow Underground, The Final Days', fish shop owner Peter McKechnie's spoke about the unique form of communication he had with the Subway drivers - and how that would be lost when he had to move his shop elsewhere too.
The narrator in the documentary says: "Modernisation is likely to put paid to a unique form of communication between the fish shop and the staff in stations down the line.
"Peter was often puzzled by the fact they always seemed to know when he was smoking fish."
Before Peter notes: "Believe it or not they said that when you smoke, this is true, some smoke must drift down and they can actually see the smoke in the tunnel of his underground.
"He says Peter's smoking today. And it worked every time. He knew without fail, he said he could smell it and he could see the slight smoke in the tunnel he says.
"Aye, and that went on for a long time."
When it reopened, the fish smell was gone for good, to be replaced, as it has done in recent months, with a 'game show' host driver who puts smiles on plenty of faces!
