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Dave wrote:I had a shite day, but this brightened it up no end

How not to fire a watermelon out of a huge slingshot

Bwahahaha

"Dr Who star drops phone in street" the Daily Mail must be struggling for news, isn't there anything else going on in the world at the moment

A nice set on Flickr of Glasgow transport in 1961

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-hernon ... 091754073/

Where the feck's the Corn Exchange? Who thought it was a good wheeze to turn it into a bookies? Yeah I was gobsmacked by that the last time I was home too. First city centre pub I ever went into (I was 18 honest :roll: ), I was always pleased to see it still there when I came home, handy for a pint...

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Breed, Nirvana- reliving my youth (well mid 20s anyway)

Wonder what they'll do with the ironwork from the old Glasgow Cross Station now that the St Vincent Street shit-lockers are to be closed. Hope they're preserved somewhere. Sorry to drag up an old topic but I only noticed this last week on one of my infrequent visits home. Does anyone know what happ...

Josef wrote:I'd be interested to see how many people on here over the age of twenty saw their first film at a cinema that still exists.

The Parade in Denistoun is sill there even though it's not a cinema any more does that count

I worked the door in Hollywood studios for a spell .. at least I think I did. :oops: It had two dance floors didn't it? The main one upstairs and a much smaller secondary one downstairs? This memory thing doesn't get any better with age does it? It had three rooms, the main one on the ground floor ...

Rucola wrote:
Incidentally the anti-poll tax graffiti up on that south viaduct must be getting on for 20 years old now.

It was first painted a couple of weeks before the anti poll tax rally on March 18th 1989, it was a lot less overgrown up there then!!

I think it has been altered a few times since then.

HollowHorn wrote:

I can't believe it still looks like that, we used to hang around down there for a fly smoke when we were dogging school

The new Manics album, cant stop playing it. The best thing they've done for about 10 years!

http://jonathanmcgurk.fotopic.net/p58087388.html - Looking towards Argyle Street station from the top of platform 16 (disused O.H.L. portals also visible) Interesting photo this, showing the ornate platform columns reaching into the tunnel, was the platform shortened when the station was refurbishe...

There's been a few threads on Central station here but i've never seen pics of the passage under the platforms, the one that links from the stairs down from the platforms. Does anyone have photos of this?

Get a Thomas Cook European rail timetable, helped me plan my journeys all the way to Poland and back, and always right I don't know how they do it but I even used it for local commuter trains when I was away.