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I studied the Wylie & Lochead building on Buchanan Street briefly. Contemporaries made a big fuss over it describing it as a commercial Crystal Palace and had one of the first elevators in a commercial building in Glasgow. It was a predecessor to large department stores. A fancy warehouse with l...

i tired to order some pictures online two years ago but nothing ever came of it. Silly me thinking those order forms were real. Do you know the Mitchell is closed over the summer, July & August, for a much needed refit. A lot of students doing disserations didn't know so heads up if you are rese...

Does anybody know if there was a army camp round about the grounds of Leverndale during WW II. I was told this years ago and was never able to find anything.

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According to the book I am using the earliest permanent buildings is the small pox quarter and surrounding buildings, top left of plan. I've never seen what is left of it today. Seeing as it is only the Doctor's House I can give a brief description of the other pavillions as the book is fairly detai...

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Sharon wrote:http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=57 mentioned Belvidere

Hi

Thought I had seen Belvidere more recently, didn't find this thread when I searched, must be blind.

Trying to get the scanner working to post the block plan, let you know how I get on.

I didn't think it was attributable to any one person, more a sort of general phrase used by Victorians at the time. I have heard it used as a sort of semi official title and have even seen claim being laid to it by Liverpool. Yes, you read that correctly, Liverpool. Yeah, I've read the Liverpool co...

If you look at the oldest cross in Glasgow, which is Glasgow Cross, where the toll booth is, then it appears to have been simply where the main throroughfares met. Glasgow until pretty much the mid 18th century was 2 main streets; the high street and the trongate. Yeah, OK, but the Mercat Cross ori...

It's the opening titles to Dilbert! :) BTW, not sure about that Billy statue - unless it's been moved. It currently sits in a fenced-off grass patch down-from-and-opposite the Provand's Lordship. It's been moved. It was there last weekend. It originally stood outside the Tontine buildings in Tronga...

If you look at the oldest cross in Glasgow, which is Glasgow Cross, where the toll booth is, then it appears to have been simply where the main throroughfares met. Glasgow until pretty much the mid 18th century was 2 main streets; the high street and the trongate. Smaller areas tend to mimic larger ...