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Re: Falkirk - The Blue Pool at Torwood

The 'blue pool' is actually a redundant (and flooded) break pressure chamber that was part of the Grangemouth town council water supply from North Thirds Reservoir. The building warrant record and associate material is located within Falkirk Council Archives at Callendar House, Falkirk. Ref. 'Stirli...
by Icecube
Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:09 am
 
Forum: Around the World
Topic: Falkirk - The Blue Pool at Torwood
Replies: 19
Views: 34429

Re: Old Viaduct in Easterhouse

The first photo is of the viaduct (still standing and taking trains between Whifflet and Glasgow Central) crossing the Luggie burn between Bargeddie (the bricks in the foreground are at the Drumpark Brickwork) and the Coatbridge suburb of Kirkwood. Second photo is the then remaining piers (one still...
by Icecube
Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:00 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Old Viaduct in Easterhouse
Replies: 2
Views: 13919

Re: Gartnavel Hospital A&E

I had a CT scan at the RI a few weeks ago @ 6pm. Its open till eight Mon-Fri. Now if only our extremely hard pressed, stressed out, poorly paid (at approx. £100k P.A.) and under valued GPs could deliver a similar service ......... Nope, not a chance of that, they'd have a mass collective heart attac...
by Icecube
Fri May 22, 2015 8:13 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Gartnavel Hospital A&E
Replies: 18
Views: 12889

Re: Hidden Cumbernauld.

Pretty sure thats the Glencryan mine. Great stuff.
by Icecube
Tue Nov 11, 2014 9:24 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Hidden Cumbernauld.
Replies: 632
Views: 874378

Re: Hidden Cumbernauld.

DavidMcD316 wrote:heard a rumour that the end of the town centre thats got the post office is all going to be shut for 3 months so they can do tests to see if the building can support a planned cinema to be built on top of it.


Somebody is having a laugh. Its monstrous enough looking.
by Icecube
Sat May 10, 2014 7:36 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Hidden Cumbernauld.
Replies: 632
Views: 874378

Re: Glasgow Zoo

Except it didn't belong to the people of Glasgow but the people of Lanarkshire who frequented and supported it as much as Glaswegians and in fact its financial survival was always helped by both hidden and open subsidies * from Lanarkshire county council up until 1975 when it fell into the clutches ...
by Icecube
Sat Apr 05, 2014 12:41 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow Zoo
Replies: 176
Views: 197831

Re: The Peter Manuel case.

Icecube, Is the photo taken at the scene of one of Manuel's murders, with a group of police there? If it is that one, then I will buy it right away! Am sure it is though its about ten years since I read it. There are a few local aerial photos of places in it that you will surely recognise.
by Icecube
Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:11 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: The Peter Manuel case.
Replies: 75
Views: 258192

Re: The Peter Manuel case.

War Baby this is it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crime-Pond-Will ... 0550203532

Needless to say he doesn't admit to the utter incompetence of Lanarkshire CID in the investigation.
by Icecube
Sun Feb 16, 2014 1:44 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: The Peter Manuel case.
Replies: 75
Views: 258192

Re: Travelling from Glasgow before the Railway Age

Actually some digging of the canal from the Forth & Clyde canal to Bo'Ness did take place before the money ran out. A line of it - a wide and deep ditch can still be seen within the boundary of BP Kinneil terminal.
by Icecube
Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:05 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Travelling from Glasgow before the Railway Age
Replies: 31
Views: 31405

Re: LILLYBURN - OR LILLIEBURN - LOOKING FOR INFORMATION

FBJ you must know that the precise spelling of the name doesn't matter much, there was no uniformity until recently. In fact it doesn't matter that much now does it? Despite the Spelling Gestapo screaming it does.


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by Icecube
Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:42 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: LILLYBURN - OR LILLIEBURN - LOOKING FOR INFORMATION
Replies: 18
Views: 12593

Re: LILLYBURN - OR LILLIEBURN - LOOKING FOR INFORMATION

Cromwell's invasion and subjugation of Scotland is not something that sits well in the mainstream edited version of Scottish history. Indeed not something the present regime would like to hear very much about either but your correct Scotland was incorporated in to the English Commonwealth at the time.
by Icecube
Mon Dec 30, 2013 12:19 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: LILLYBURN - OR LILLIEBURN - LOOKING FOR INFORMATION
Replies: 18
Views: 12593

Re: LILLYBURN - OR LILLIEBURN - LOOKING FOR INFORMATION

Is Kinneil House not near Bo'Ness?
by Icecube
Sat Dec 28, 2013 10:14 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: LILLYBURN - OR LILLIEBURN - LOOKING FOR INFORMATION
Replies: 18
Views: 12593

Re: Travelling from Glasgow before the Railway Age

A snippet on the subject: "Until 1803 the Royal Mail was carried on horseback between Glasgow and Edinburgh. In April of that year it was started to be conveyed by carriage. Some of the names of the coaches over the years were; Prince of Wales, Star, Royal Telegraph, True Briton, Royal Eagle, Q...
by Icecube
Mon Dec 02, 2013 9:50 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Travelling from Glasgow before the Railway Age
Replies: 31
Views: 31405

Re: Glasgow Zoo

I wish you luck but I think you'll find GCC have other plans for the area. i.e. up market houses.

Anyway the Dog Trust is just along the road at Boghall and the SSPCA in the other direction along at Bothwell Bridge. How many dog rescue centres do we need?
by Icecube
Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:37 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow Zoo
Replies: 176
Views: 197831
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