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If my memory serves me correctly the building next to the GG was the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital but I could be wrong.

ibtg wrote:Already tried the Virtual Mitchell and Canmore. Running out of options..... anyone got a photo, please?

I meant visit the Mitchell and delve through the photo albums in the Glasgow Room. You might get lucky.

Try the Mitchell photo archive.

The house was converted into a hotel. Recall going for a bevvy on Sunday nights.

This is from the Mitchell Library. The chap on the left is Sir Patrick Dollan, lord provost of Glasgow, 1938 -41 and the young man on the right is Jack Kennedy. The photo was taken when the latter visited the survivors of the Athenia sinking on behalf of his father - old Joe Kennedy. http://i2.photo...

I know the place you mean, cell, and it is odd. One of my favourite bike runs goes past the entrance, which looks amusingly like the way in to a Bond villain's lair. I couldn't have commented on this when posted five years ago but as I work out of BP Dalmeny now I can tell you that walikng up that ...

The decaying remains of the site are still there. No development has impinged across the boundaries of the zoo site, yet. But you rightly mention the (upmarket) housing that has been built on former zoo land (outwith but directly adjacent to the zoo) and that is the very same land that Glasgow city ...

Workmate was there - ex. 2 Para, 2 tours of Afghan, real hero, real nice guy.

My son was on duty in Whitehall with F Co. Scots Guards.

Originally known as 'Toll Bars' and it was literally a bar laid across the turnpike road of which there were many across and around Glasgow. The houses associated with them were the toll keeper's house.

From "Clyde Navigation" by John F Riddell, pub. by John Donald, Edinburgh, 1979. p.177 "In 1816 David Napier of Camlachie installed his first machine engine in a vessell called the 'Marion' which was built at Dunbarton. This boat was operated as a passenger boat between Rutherglen and...

It's definately not the Frankfield Loch.

It is ye know.

http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch/view/?sid=74955871

Malls Myre per chance? It runs through Richmond Park and empties into the Clyde.

A real shame, as you say he did give us a wee mystery. Still definitely unsolved in my opinion despite the persuasive case put up by the mining faction. I was up there in January with the dog and while all the puddles on the paths were covered in ice the water in the 'blue pool' never had a sliver o...

Sorry to report that according to messages in the visitor book of the Torwood mystery website advises that Nigel Turnbull has passed away.

War Baby wrote:Thanks Icecube,
I was at that school from 1947 till 1958. Lots of memories of the place.

As you left I started - Aug. 1958.