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Hi escorege,
As a ps to what I just wrote-
If you feel strongly enough about this issue, you should start a petition.
This forum is as good a place to start as any but it also needs locals to get on their feet and get active.

Best of luck.

John

As a veteran town planner, I must confess my ignorance as to how the process of listing works. I have noted many times however, that often buildings which I think are ugly, are not particularly old and have nothing in my experience to justify their listing. I suspect this is done by elitist 'experts...

There are a number of parallels between the two rivers as indeed there are by many other rivers since the end of the ice age. they have all been subject to the sea levels into which they decant having risen at stages by a total of 60 metres. this, in turn has affected their gradients resulting in me...

Hard to understand that map, maybe if you could send more of it, it might make more sense. What are the circles and is there a difference between the clear ones and filled ones and do the colours signify anything. On second thoughts I think that St James' Rd. is a better way to Dobbies Loan than Ro...

I used to work in the chief civil engineer's office top floor backing onto platform 1. The print room was at the end of the platform and you could get your ears well blasted if one of the pacifics blew off at the safety valve as you walked up to the end. There was a lane up the north side of the bui...

Hi Edward, The map is easy to get into. Just google http://www.pastmap.com/ which gives a map of the UK. successively click onto the location you want until the map is focused in to the level of detail you want. If you then click on the 'historic environment option it highlights the route shown and ...

Line of Bothwellhaugh, Balmuildy through Castle Street.docx Hi Edward, It could do with locating on a map. I attach an extract of the 'pastmap' with the line of the Bothwellhaugh- Balmuildy route. The line and the dots come up when you click the Historical option. I assume your point is that the E-...

There seems to be a lot of construction work in hand judging by the tower cranes.
Does anyone have knowledge of any pre-development archaeological digs and results now a planning requirement (PPG16) or a new revision?

Johk

Hi Edward, Thanks for your appreciation. I am an civil engineer/ town planner /transportation planner and like to think my strange spread of expertise helps me to get an insight in areas that may have been neglected. I came to these conclusions without reference to any historical or archaeological s...

Hi Edward.
Sorry I did not understand your comment did you miss something?
John

Hi Moonbeam, The traverser was about 65ft long and ran across all the tracks at the west end of the shed. it had about 8 tracks set in a trough about 2 feet deep and could move carriages between the lines without the need for shunting them . I thing they may have been moved by fairleads rather than ...

Surely the Blind Asylum must be a listed building? If so it would be unlikely to be converted as proposed.

John

It is clear that a possible early origin for Glasgow is not of great interest and few have picked up on this thread which is a pity as what could be more relevant to Hidden Glasgow than a Roman origin? I know evidence is scant as much of the land of the old town has been quarried away, subject to ma...

Hi Moonbeam again, It just occurred to me that you may have been referring to st Rollox Motive Power Depot when you worked at the 'Caley' as this was also known locally as that also. My family had a long history of working with the Caledonian Railway then later LMS and BR. My brother was a fitter th...

Hi Moonbeam, I set-out a new traverser across the east end of the works in I think, the early 60s. It was a difficult job as all the tracks were in use or stacked up with carriages and the ground was saturated with sulfuric acid from the battery shed. I recall that much of the plant in the works dat...