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Would it have anything to do with the VE day anniversary?

I'm annoyed that they chose a monday afternoon to do this.
Why not a Sunday so more people had the chance to go along?

And the regeneration has begun….with the demolition of one of the last original elements – The Washhouse and Baths. I went along recently and it was gone. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/Oatlands/P5061208.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/Oatlands/P5061209.jpg http://...

Oatlands is a strange case indeed. It was due to be the third CDA area in the Gorbals, but apart from a few streets of the worst slums being demolished, the plan wasn’t implemented. Here is Wolseley st, during some of that demolition in 1972 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/Oatlands/wo...

Well done Sharon, a Sunday supplement worth reading for once!

Absolutely, that's a brilliant shot

I used to go to clubs and play football in the PI as a lad, always liked it. Here are some pics from when i dropped in last doors open day. The place is slowly being restored, but there are obvious signs of wear and tear throughout. Some external detail http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc...

Waterloo St Bus Station, Junction of Waterloo and Wellington 1966 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/PastPresent3/waterloobus.jpg Same Junction 2005 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/PastPresent3/waterloo.jpg Past pic from Alan Millar's "Streets of Glasgow" - a beautiful book.

If i'm not mistaken, they've turned this into 'luxury' flats now?

Govan Rd, next to the old graving docks(with science centre tower for support)

Lets see if this sheds any light. An aerial shot of the area from 1962. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/PastPresent3/gorbalsaerial1.jpg Clearly the bridge we can see has a flat top edge. Is that an arched top edge just to the left poking up above the flat one? Come to think of it, the...

Yes, it is indeed the same scene. I can see where the confusion came from though, and thanks to stinkpad and lordsleek for clearing some of that up. As Lordsleek said, Hospital st at this point has has been widened and re-angled.Where the tenements on the left stood has been curtailed. The bridge. I...

A playpark in the Gorbals, early 1900's http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/PastPresent3/gorbalsswings.jpg 2005 - The railway bridge now defunct, the old station building now the Brazen Head pub. The swingpark a car park for a social club.\ http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/P...

Cumberland st in the Gorbals, looking West 1965 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/PastPresent3/cumberlandwest.jpg 2005 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/JamesMc/PastPresent3/P4231198.jpg Difficult to get the proper angle as there is a wee wall and fence with shrubbery in the way, b...

After months of being surrounded by fencing, the Morrison st bogs have finally gone. The site has been filled in with rubble



JamesMc.