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The new Museum Resource Centre, is a wonderful idea. Here Have not taken the tour yet will do soon. I was aware of this new museum when I was for a very short time involved with the Pollok Kist Project.

As for my view on the wedge!

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Alex, Do you have a copy of the original Darnley Mill Farm feasability study, it was produced bby Mike and Sue Thornley in the mid 1980's? I ask because if I remember the document contained a reference to Darnley House and the curling rink, I would like to re read this section and the one on the Dar...

eh? Tollbooth, I think!

yeah you got to keep on the bright side, why not visit the Transport Museum and see the old Glasgow Street in there it has the, butchers, bakers and candel stick makers, as well as a replica old underground station and a cinema.

Cool picture thanks. I think its one for the archive as crusty say the new build will soon obscure it once again what a pity.

The Cumbernauld garden centre definately had the tap in the 90's seen it many times.

There were very sound reason for the level of public funding going into pollok due to the levels of deprivation. But all of these sort of things are only seed funding to develop the life skills that are required for real cultural, social and economic progress, when the funding stops so to the progre...

I only ever really look at the Projects and coffee lounge forum, must start looking at more! On the pollokshaws front I would like to take a look at the old Polloc Toon site in front of Pollok House, I have read several snipits in various books and documents over the years, but have not been at the ...

:? :? This is just a bit of a ramble aff the tap aye ma heid, but I remember reading something about Maxwell, don't know which lot having witches burned in Paisley. Can't remember the detail or the sources but the one thing that stuck in my mind was a sort of curse that went along with the burning. ...

Bellarmine Environmental Resource Centre really was an inovative project. It was some of the best ever urban aid funding ever used. It paid for four members of staff and funded environmental research, history and most importantly education. It also provided a valuable hub for many of the southside c...

I have collected a lot of information about this tragic event over the years. I had intended to put together a decent article about the subject but never seem to have the time. So I am just going to post a few bits and bods just now given that we have started this thread. The Victoria pit was in the...

I managed to get this info about the local history group. I have been advised by a family member who used to be in the group that it meets on Mondays at 2pm in Pollokshaws Parish Church, Shawbridge St. just next to the police station. Jims post on pollokshaws library is always a good starting point ...

Yeah, the grahamston story sort of spoiled the image I have had for years, based on the Jack House series in the Evening Times. The image I carried about for years was sort of like the old Victorian Street, that was created in the Transport Museum when it moved to the Kelvin Hall. Hope they replicat...

Whit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can buy school uniforms oot oh a shoap , well i never , ma maw aye telt us that you could only get them oot a Paddy's Market.

The Book I mentioned in an earlier post is: McCallum Andew, Pollokshaws Village and Burgh (1925) Another that may help is: Rountree George, Old Pollokshaws (2002) There are several others why not try a search for Pollokshaws as the Keyword at the main Glasgow library catalogue, choose full catalogue...