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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...