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Its quite clear from the maps provided by AMcD that the Trenches are the target areas suggested by Socceroo I have been meaning to go up there all of my life and have a look never quite managed, I am just a lazy Bar steward. I have always been interested in the history of Nitshill and its environs a...

me too! crap! ****

Here are a few pics of the Mitchellhill Flats on 26th November at 12.00 before during and after the demolition. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c57/job78989/Hiddenglasgow/Mitchellhill%20Flats/DSC00004.jpg I missed most of the demolition, but for what its worth heres the last one going down or is t...

Hear Hear, Well said, but they pick and chose what they fix! So crusty go for it, a 2 metre red granite plinth for the gnome. Yes

Oooops it might be a small lighthouse

Guising I'll come as a plank a wid then, ney chinge need then eh!

Hi Paul, Have you seen the homers network in the coffee lounge, I am sure that one or two of our "pure dead mental" members may be in need of a few urgent homers

As a bus conductor in the 70's working from larkfield garage, I can confirm that clayslps road was used by the corpy as a termnus, for the 57 service to Arden terminus on Nitshill Road. Clayslaps Road was used to allow buses to sit the waiting time. Far less traffic than Radnor St. However the desti...

8) Great Ideas. Glasgow have had a few temp things like this. Anyone remember the stiching in the side wall of the old costumiers building, opposite the Citizens in the Gorbals. I think it may have been the year of culture stuff, not sure, anyone got any pics of this. On doors open day a few years a...

Very good point apollo

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A picture of the old Plantation House along with a potted history can be found on Glasgow Digital Library here: Plantation House

rdt2 wrote: Job 78989, I think you should read Apollo's last post. And consider whether anyone on this board has tarred every young person with any particular brush. AlanM Wrote: I thought we were questioning police restraint or lack thereof ---------------------------------------------------------...

Having Tasers on the Steets of Strathclyde is a shameful matter, the fear of crime is the driving force for this kind of intervention, but how real is the need to fear crime for most of the population. Just over 1% of the Scottish population is in prison at any one time. Take a look at these figures...

Hi Sharon, The Glasgow Garden Festival, took place on this part of the river, in was it 1988? There must be thousands who visited that site and took pics, this must be of note me thinks, the building of Bells Bridge, trams. The use of the rotundas at this time informed many Glaswegians, that there w...