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I appreciate the reviews of the food and service but I'm really looking for photographs of the place guys ::): . To be honest, when I last went about 4-5 years ago I really liked the fish and chips and service was very quick. It's not the best looking place and clearly run down and hasn't changed si...
This is an absolute long shot, but as a wean it always fascinated me the once or twice I managed to get out in the quickly derelict Harry Ramsden's play area. As the large snake slide could be seen from the swooping Kingston Bridge bend, it was always part of my memories growing up. I have some very...
Re joining this topic we think on the same wavelength AP72 I have some images of the connecting walkways that took you to the ASDA/Woolworths site but not of the actual building itself. Just the walkways. There is a new page on Facebook (I don't think you need to have an account to view it) dedicate...
Copcutt was a visionary, from the little excerpts we have of him post-Cumbernauld, you could tell that he blames its overall failure on the fact that he seen Cumbernauld as a 10 piece jigsaw with only the edge pieces in place. Even if he had his way though, I doubt Cumbernauld would see appreciation...
Hi mate. It was due to a fire and it was totally damaged beyond repair. 'Everything centres on the centre itself' is the quote from Magnusson. The entire vision of Copcutt, was that everything would be under one roof. The centre was initially to stretch half a mile...though as my short video reveals...
Hello everyone. It's been a while. Loved seeing those new shots on Flickr ,again stirring my want to see the centre in it's entirety and original form. I have recently checked the Scottish Screen Archive with a view to purchasing Cumbernauld: Town for Tommorrow but have discovered they now actually ...
It still puzzles me, the area of buildings underneath the bit on the stilt. The red brick construction seems completely out of place with all the concrete, I was discussing earlier in the thread if these buildings were original but indeed they seem to be. Still can't imagine what it must have been l...
Another thing that interests me is that portions of the centre were originally outdoors, such as the ramp immediately outside the library, as can be seen in this picture: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jMhRWlzJDVE/TTmNQP-DWDI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/e2O74gViFrY/s1600/cum2.jpg Also, the bank and book shop were all on...
I found a gallery of images of the place taken in 1968 by a Norwegian student of the time: This appears to be level 3, further down from the library! Look at the very end of the corridor and you can see it was originally outdoors, the space outside the library: http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/i...
Isn't the whole point of this forum to discuss "hidden" Glasgow? It's intriguing to see the corridors and apartments if they are still there, which we don't know seeing as we can't get up, and imagine in the mid 50's when the first tenants would have moved into them thinking they were real...
:)! Yes well here we go, I've only managed to name and describe the first half before losing the will to live as it's tedious trying to describe it all. Hope people 'enjoy' looking at this, in a sick sort of way. I haven't been in ages as you can see from the date stamps on the pictures, looking at ...