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bAzTNM wrote:It would be a perfect bunch of flats for someone. You'll have to fumigate the place about 200 times to get the "junkie" away from it though.

productive contribution.

InkMan wrote:When would the New Monaco Bar have closed. I passed it daily on my return from my school in Eastfield, Rutherglen on my way hoe to Springboig and can't ever remember it being open.

Shuggy

Less than ten years ago anyway.

Hey Kirkguy, I got sieged in at the Royal Oak about five years ago, I played a gig in there and it all kicked off!! The new monaco bar at Bridgeton , i saw a guy who had just won at pool get skelped with a cue for beating the pub hardman. The pub was torn down a few weeks ago.. It unfortunately had...

banjo wrote:my local serves alcohol from eleven on a sunday.outwith glasgow though not by much.

Would that be the one in Helensburgh I've heard about? Or somewhere out that way.

Also if your really chokin on a sunday early on, you can always go to the bar in Glasgow Airport.

Thanks Sydney. I've got enough Loake shoes kicking about to do a survey the results of which I may write up. I used to go to the Cobblers in Byres Road now closed and the ones I've been using recently are not consistent. Nae bother. I've been usin him for years. He does everythin in the shop too, s...

Anyone recommend a cobbler? I've tried Merkland Street and Calder Street but I'm not happy with either. Hello Dex, I can highly recomend the cobblers at number 4 Burnfield Road in Giffnock. It's not exactly round the corner from me in the Calton but I wouldn't take my shoes anywhere else. It's call...

Hello Bmc0611, P.M. me and I could probably get you a full length dvd. Although on 2nd thoughts you'd probably have quicker / better luck goin to the book stall in the London Road Market bit of the Barras. There's always some there. Go in the entranc to the covered market just up from lynchs and the...

Meant to post this on here earlier, still a few days of it left though. Opening times are 10 - 5.

It was called GHQ or somethin inbetween Berlin and sadei frosts i seem to remember.

That wee park at the corner of Tobago Street and London Road that started off this thread was the Templeton Memorial Garden, laid out to comemorate the 1889 accident in which 29 women weavers were killed when a wall collapsed on them during construction of an extension to the carpet factory. It's a ...

If you walk under that bridge you can see channels worn into the stonework on the corners where the ropes of horse drawn bages have worn it away as they went round the corner.

Great stuff, ta.

No - it's not a sewer, unless there's a flood or something and the sewers overflow - it had clear water running through it. That's interesting, I read years ago that it had been made into a sewer and it stuck with me. It does often look a queer colour when I peek over to look at the open bit at Duk...

Did it no fuckin stink?