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Am nae art critic, but the Paddys Market one, reminds me of my childhood and I also remember the building on the corner of Charlotte street looking just like that before it was renovated.

Whats your mothers maiden name?

I still know a few links to the queer folk oh the shaws.

loads of people from the shawhill and rosendale road moved to pollok and househillwood in the 30s & 40s

My three would have to be: No.1 The Wedge at Pollok Roundabout: http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/DSC00004.jpg No. 2 The Silver Foil Coated building n Waterloo St: http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/Silver.jpg No. 3 The Glass Clad St. Enoch's Centre: http://i25.photobucket.c...

Just noticed that the househill photo also has members of the Dunlop family outside!

The music room from househill is in part replicated in the House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park

Pollokshaws has a long long history, the original Poloc toon was on the banks of the river cart, just in front of Pollok House, when the Maxwells decided to move back to the old castle site from Haggs Castle and build the present day Pollok House, the moved the village to the site of the present pol...

Found these when going through some old photo albums: http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/2005-10-13-1750-36_edited_edited.jpg http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/2005-10-14-2032-53_edited.jpg http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/2005-10-14-2048-49_edited.jpg http://i...

:idea: :idea: May I suggets the TOBACO bridge to commemorate the fact the the Glasgow mercantile classes built there fortunes on slavery and the punting of addictive drugs and from march this year it will be the only fcuking place where we the resultant prodgeny of the evil trade will be able to smo...

Be very careful the house is in an extremely dangerous condition, e.g. no climbing. The ground is also very difficult soft and mashy with very dense shrubbery and the inevitable bramles so dress appropriately.

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Hi Alex, It would be useful if you could raise this matter, the fosil that survives clearly needs some form of attention of the good kind, moving it to a safer location with some record placed on the site perhaps. This thing has been on this site for 150 years 100 or so in private ownership, but whe...

Just an aside to the previous post, Househill Park also has a fosilised tree just to the side of the path that runs south of the former Househill House site, this was found in the quarry at nitshill mid 1800's which was owned by the Dunlop family, the quarry was either the one on what is now cleves ...

This tree? http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/Danny112.jpg and perhaps from these chains? http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/Danny113.jpg or so we were told as weans. whit rubbish our parents sometimes passed on. As the trees were just outside the doors of Househill House Bui...

Here are a few pics I took of the old house last year: http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/Hiddenglasgow/Glasgow%20South%20West/Darnley/Upper%20Darnley/Picture031.jpg http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/Hiddenglasgow/Glasgow%20South%20West/Darnley/Upper%20Darnley/Picture032.jpg...