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One of these mysterys, like place name pronounciation. Why for instance, is: Milingavie = Mulguy Kilincadzow = Kilgeggie Ravenstruther = Renstry Strathhaven = Straven Strathhaven's easy. It's just a contraction, like Ne'erday or Halloween. Milingavie is Milguy rather than Mulguy, probably - they so...
quetion is are you going to be able to access the M73 from the neew M74 and go north towards ballieston and pick up the M8 and vice versa, if yes then it will avoid a hell of a lot of traffic from townhead towards the kingston bridge That's always been possible and isn't going to change once the M7...
Anyone interested in Glasgow's Gasworks should read about one of the city's rare terrorist incidents, which took out one of the (then three) Tradeston gasometers back in 1883. Given that there's a specific date, a good one for digging around in the Mitchell archives, perhaps. http://www.theglasgowst...
McKinley Street runs between Turriff Street and Devon Street. The entire area around McKinley Street has been demolished. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=devon+Street,+glasgow&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Devon+St,+Glasgow,+Lanarkshire+G5+9ST,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.845557,-4.260136&am...
Don't commercial map makers deliberately misname some roads in order to make copyright violations easier to identify? That was my suspicion - tried getting directions it on Multimap and it turns up there too. However, when you try to find Gray Den on its own on Multimap, it doesn't appear. Google M...
Anyone know why a bit of Cook Street in Tradeston is called Gray Den? I appears every time I ask Google for directions leading me onto the Kingston Bridge. Had a search on the internet and can't find any references. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=gray+den+glasgow&um=1&ie=UTF-8&...
The shop would be Badger's Not an explosion, but around 1970 Pollokshaws Road on the east side of Eglinton Toll collapsed into the railway tunnels. The repair work went on for almost 2 years as I recall, although I was very young :) Spoke to my mum tonight - she can remember the garage collapsing i...
Appreciated your insights, Toaster. Great stuff Guacho! Guacho's memories make perfect sense when you look at the aerial photograph with Eglinton Toll in the middle. There is a huge undeveloped gap over where the various railway lines split. http://www.scotcities.com/railways/eglintontoll.jpg What ...
The present works are a serious engineering undertaking. My parents owned a business in shops in Eglinton St facing the Eglinton St railway station. I walked from school daily from 1949 then after a short interval at the end of my school years worked in this business location until the mid 70's. Eg...
The support beams for the M74 over the Paisley Railway lines were lowered into place last night. The area was lit up like a Christmas Tree when I passed it at around 10:30pm. It was probably something to do with that. Toaster, were these lights at the M74 works moving after each other or were they ...
The support beams for the M74 over the Paisley Railway lines were lowered into place last night. The area was lit up like a Christmas Tree when I passed it at around 10:30pm.
Hotspur Street ,Mount Stuart Street ,Battlefield Place Where's Battlefield Place? Presumably you mean Battle Place - the roundabout where the monument stands. There's also Battlefield Road, Gardens, and Avenue. A lot of the street names surrounding Queens Park have a connection of some sort to the ...
Hi, I am trying to find any info on the NTL Telewest/Virgin Media building in Pollocksheilds Maxwell Road if it was a hospital ward previously as its exterior and interior design is shaped like it. Thx. Never a hospital building to my knowledge. Wasn't it was a British Gas office? My gran lived nea...