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Re: Sad News

I’ve struggled to write anything in response to this sad news. The words feel hollow after thinking them for the umpteenth time, let alone saying them. Last time I saw Josef was at the funeral of Lucky Poet. Not that you’d known from Josef’s manner, the irreverent and clever bastard that he was. I’m...
by crusty_bint
Mon Jun 18, 2018 7:45 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Sad News
Replies: 16
Views: 28052

Hidden Glasgow Hall of Record

This forum will keep running for as long as there's a server hosting it. We're all just a tad more complicated... We have lost many valued contributors over the past few years. People who wove the threads of knowledge contained here. People who, for those of us lucky enough, became our friends. Plea...
by crusty_bint
Mon Jun 18, 2018 7:42 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Hidden Glasgow Hall of Record
Replies: 2
Views: 11289

Re: Washington Street School.

I did that :) Paid for at least one of em!
by crusty_bint
Wed May 23, 2018 5:03 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Washington Street School.
Replies: 42
Views: 57294

Re: Old song: She's my peri-weri-weri-weri-winkle...

is it related to this?

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http://www.horntip.com/html/songs_sorte ... winkle.htm
by crusty_bint
Mon May 21, 2018 10:54 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Old song: She's my peri-weri-weri-weri-winkle...
Replies: 2
Views: 8314

Re: Washington Street School.

For a wee site less than 200 years old it has a complex history. The Saracen Tube Works only occupied part of the former Saracen Foundry site, the rest being taken up by a variety of businesses like store and warehousing, a mill and a cooperage. The southern two thirds of the Pentagon building occup...
by crusty_bint
Mon May 21, 2018 10:46 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Washington Street School.
Replies: 42
Views: 57294

Re: Washington Street School.

I don't think you're old enough to have been working in Washington St during the dates I mentioned ;P

Mcfarlane operated from Washington St for a while, before Possil.

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by crusty_bint
Sat May 19, 2018 9:37 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Washington Street School.
Replies: 42
Views: 57294

Re: Belmont Crescent School

You're welcome, Dot. I take it you've had a look at it on google streetview? Can get a swatch of the back garden too on the 3D view...

www.google.co.uk/maps/streetview
by crusty_bint
Sat May 19, 2018 6:53 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Belmont Crescent School
Replies: 13
Views: 17991

Re: Washington Street School.

The 'Axiom' building replaced a complex of buildings that stood on the site comprising a cooperage, a mill and the Saracen Tube Works (the name Saracen being a relic of Walter Macfarlane's previous ownership of the site), it was built between 1951-55 (you can see the site being cleared for construct...
by crusty_bint
Sat May 19, 2018 6:47 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Washington Street School.
Replies: 42
Views: 57294

Re: Belmont Crescent School

It wasn't uncommon for small private schools to operate out of residential addresses, much like Craigholme School in Pollokshields, which has grown to encompass half a dozen villas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigholme_School https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/969/28227570168_9c26054d64_c.jpg Here's s...
by crusty_bint
Mon May 14, 2018 9:10 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Belmont Crescent School
Replies: 13
Views: 17991

Re: windows in conservation area

it's not a good thing that planning permission wasn't sought, but replacing windows without consent isn't uncommon, alas. whether retrospective permission will be granted in your case will be down to the specifics of the property, i.e. whether it is listed in its own right or cited in the Conservati...
by crusty_bint
Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:12 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: windows in conservation area
Replies: 4
Views: 9287

Re: Unknown street in Kelvindale

The mineral line is there in 1928, it emerges from the tunnel just to the east of Balgray Row into a relatively deep cutting which becomes visible just west of my crop. You can see what i mean about the depth of the cutting below the brow of Balgray Row as it heads west under the road viaduct in the...
by crusty_bint
Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:26 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Unknown street in Kelvindale
Replies: 5
Views: 12825

Re: Unknown street in Kelvindale

apologies, i meant late 1920s/early 1930s :$ the terrace can be seen in aerial images of 1928 but is gone by 1939

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(original post edited to clarify)
by crusty_bint
Sun Mar 11, 2018 8:18 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Unknown street in Kelvindale
Replies: 5
Views: 12825

Re: Unknown street in Kelvindale

It was Balgray Row miners' cottages, demolished late 1920s/early 1930s http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/400.html Notes on Miners' Houses Part I The Glasgow (Western) District As reform, like charity, begins at home, I first made a pilgrimage to a district west of Glasgow, and lying equidistant from M...
by crusty_bint
Sat Mar 10, 2018 3:42 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Unknown street in Kelvindale
Replies: 5
Views: 12825

Re: RIP Lucky Poet

Another gentleman lost to this world. Lost to us all. A kind, strong and funny soul who brought a smile to the face of all who met you. I count myself in that privileged number. You are a beautiful man, Scott. I’m sorry this happened. I’m sorry I never got the chance to tell you these things. I hope...
by crusty_bint
Tue Jan 30, 2018 12:42 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: RIP Lucky Poet
Replies: 10
Views: 15593

Re: Auld Glesga Trams & Buses

Naw is no, its Cathcart Road. 8) ::): Hi CB, the 29 didn't go along Dalmarnock Rd. - just had a wee check of the route here:http://www.semple.biz/glasgow/gct%20tram%20routes2.shtml Durachdan, Eddy i totally bow to your tram knowledge, Eddy! :) but im resonably sure that is Dalmarnock Rd, the wall o...
by crusty_bint
Tue Sep 06, 2016 2:36 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Auld Glesga Trams & Buses
Replies: 1117
Views: 788614
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