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Looks more like (show's yer) Baird Hall


Alan

The results are in visit http://www.prospectmagazine.com/carbuncles/?PHPSESSID=4cd0fbe31f733695d40e8cd12b15feed for the verdict

Alan

Have you guys been ram-raiding charity shops again?

Google maps and mapquest have given some streets different names, have a look at Great Western Rd on both of these. There are some others in and around Knightswood that have been renamed by these sites.

Does anyone know of any more of these 'renamed' streets

What about the former SRC debating chamber, can't remember if it's Holland St or Elmbank St

Cochrane St ?

Does India House still exist ?. I take it you mean India Street. The buildings were originally named Strathclyde House 1-5, when the regional councils were disolved GCC took over at least one of the buildings for a while and renamed it Nye Bevan House (Education Dept. was located there). The Scotti...

me too

Sharon wrote:Not sure whos winning yet..

I think Charlie Watts is the most impressive so far

Fernando Ricksen and his missus at Burgerking, Great Western Retail Park.

But the most sureal has to be Stefan Dennis returning some unused DIY stuff to B&Q, Great Western Retail Park (that was a while back when he was still in River Shitty)

Alan

Thats a good example of how conversions of that kind should be done. The exterior of the building is almost identical to that in the earlier photo Just a pity it isn't actually used as a workplace anymore. If all work buildings are being turned into flats, where do people actually work now? With th...

Church st Pool is covered in another thread in here in quite some depth (excuse the pun). >Church Street pool< I think its about 12 years since the pool closed and the gym next door was used by a boxing club. I was last in that pool when I was about 15 and it closed a few of years after that. (it wa...

for now anyway.

A

MMMmmmmmmmm

The only other former SRC building in the city centre that springs to mind is the former Education Dept. offices on Bath St.

There's a nice photo of the inside of Partick Steamie in 'Villages Of Glasgow' and the building that is currently on that site san be seen here.


Alan