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Didn't Rutherglen Road run off Main Street Gorbals at right angles, just south of Gorbals Cross? Main Street now being Gorbals Street.

Still a slow process but with a lick of paint ( authentic PO) and the transoms plus the new door frame (minus the glass still) this http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r282/ranzaboy/000_0266.jpg becomes this http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r282/ranzaboy/100_0172.jpg A bit to go yet!! Having a go ...

Does anyone have past & present photos of the Moss Heights Flats, & the nearby Mossview Quadrant Flats ? Thanks, Robert Downie Would there be much difference if we did? Yes and No. Sorry, they're not past/ present . I was born at No 7 Mossview Quadrant (the close on the right) and went back...

Had a wee incident myself. Me too. Was down in Northumberland for a wee holiday last week. On the way back up the A1 we stopped at the Scottish Borders viewpoint where I got out to take a picture of the three saltires and the Welcome to Scotland sign. A guy in a Landrover going the other way leaned...

I think Govan (Ibrox) Power Station was a Cleansing Depot from many years without generating electricity before it closed. I think it was still open until the 1990's. Just recently discovered a little book from my Dad's collection -"Your own city- What every young citizen should know" whi...

The Jamaica Street one is brilliant. Where, though, are all those people going? What was on the South Side that so many people, and apparently rather well to do at that, were heading to?

What a really fascinating post. Best read I've had in a long time. Thanks HH

Autolycus wrote:

duck wrote:In 20 years we've never known snow like this in Normandy! Or, as all the locals keep telling us "jamais jamais vu"

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You in Normandy? Jamais, jamais bast*rd

Nice one! I like it

In 20 years we've never known snow like this in Normandy! Or, as all the locals keep telling us "jamais jamais vu"

When meeting a few pals in the west end before christmas we decided to meet in Tennents.When i mentioned this to a workmate he said "Thats a gay bar".This was then "confirmed" by a few others.As its not a gay bar where did this rumour start ,anyone? In my dictionary a rumour &qu...

I think I'm losing the will to live....................

Like Tinkerbell ,a lot of my forebears were Roman Catholics from Anderston so were buried at Lambhill. If you go to the Archives room at the Mitchell you can look up the different cemetery burial records (easy if you have death dates) and obtain the section and lair numbers. If your folks are at Lam...

I admire the French for their determination not to have * their language polluted by creeping Americanisation**. ) Sorry Brigit. I have to agree with Dex. The loi Toubon of 1994 never really got anywhere ( supposed to, amongst other things, protect the French language) As Dex said, most people here...

Now Peter, there's a tale there!
Three words. You HAVE to develop!!!

Is Ireland allowed? Skellig Michael in County Kerry. http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r282/ranzaboy/100_0733.jpg http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r282/ranzaboy/100_0760.jpg http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r282/ranzaboy/100_0759.jpg http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r282/ranzaboy/100_0724.jpg