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Re: Hidden House in Woodlands

by road_kill
Wed Dec 31, 2014 10:45 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Hidden House in Woodlands
Replies: 32
Views: 100410

Re: Uncovered: Old Shop Signs (temporarily revealed)

Shame this thread has been hidden in the backwater of "photo sharing". It made a good project... :(

{Edit - Thank you, Mod of mystery :D }

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Whilst Mother India's Cafe were upgrading their signage
by road_kill
Thu May 08, 2014 1:11 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Uncovered: Old Shop Signs (temporarily revealed)
Replies: 277
Views: 268432

Re: What are these things...?

pingu wrote:markers for putting a theodolite onto.
so they get the exact same place every time they do a measurement


Ah! thanks. :D
That means somebody is surveying the bowling green and old tennis courts again. Not good news...
by road_kill
Wed Mar 12, 2014 2:12 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: What are these things...?
Replies: 7
Views: 5126

What are these things...?

...that have suddenly appeared on the pavements? Sometimes they have a painted red triangle around them. I'm sure they never used to be there...

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by road_kill
Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:25 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: What are these things...?
Replies: 7
Views: 5126

Anya Gallaccio, Glaschu, Tramway@

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The exhibition was called Glaschu. It was part of the 'Tramway@' series exhibited/performed in a variety of found spaces accross the city whilst Tramway itself was undergoing refurbishment.
by road_kill
Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:23 pm
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: anya gallacio in the Corinthian before it opened
Replies: 2
Views: 1912

Re: Desmond Bank Academy, Glasgow

Desmond Bank in 1867

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(The 'white' house on the right)
by road_kill
Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:12 am
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: Desmond Bank Academy, Glasgow
Replies: 6
Views: 5463

Re: West End Festival. June 2012.

The Egg Man wrote:Here we are, 25% or so of the way through the West End Festival 2012. Has anyone noticed?

You do know that the West End Festival is just a ruse to get extended licensing hours during the month of the year with the most available daylight and the students still in town.
by road_kill
Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:07 pm
 
Forum: Forum Archive
Topic: West End Festival. June 2012.
Replies: 19
Views: 9636

Re: Desmond Bank Academy, Glasgow

There's a t missing before the =359 at the end of the link in the index: Here's the thread about Sauchiehall Streets's Hidden Houses (which does mention the CCA thing, but wasn't the one I was thinking of) Chudleigh, as ever, I'm interested to know what led you to ask :D Perhaps a mod could fix the ...
by road_kill
Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:53 pm
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: Desmond Bank Academy, Glasgow
Replies: 6
Views: 5463

Re: Desmond Bank Academy, Glasgow

A GEORGIAN villa is emerging after being entombed in a busy city centre street for more than 140 years. Architects refurbishing the #10.7m Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow have revealed the house within the more familiar Grecian Buildings that were created by Alexander "Greek" Thom...
by road_kill
Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:20 pm
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: Desmond Bank Academy, Glasgow
Replies: 6
Views: 5463

Re: Desmond Bank Academy, Glasgow

Desmond Bank was a house on the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Scott Street. It was listed at the time as being at 252 Sauchiehall Street. At some point the numbering of the street must have changed as 252 is now much closer to the city centre that this location. The house was one of the leafy vil...
by road_kill
Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:53 pm
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: Desmond Bank Academy, Glasgow
Replies: 6
Views: 5463

Re: Swedgers

On the subject of Buchanan's, an interesting article on the Scottish sweetie trade (with the promise of a radio doc to follow): http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2011/12/7/1323260331235/Christine-Gillan-in-Tom-S-007.jpg http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/11/life-...
by road_kill
Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:45 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Swedgers
Replies: 196
Views: 115145

Re: Kelvinhaugh Street - Car Showroom

Those tiles are about the last thing I'd have expected to see down there. Surely laying in electric light would have been far cheaper, especially since the north side would have benefitted from little, if any, natural light The block was built in the 1840s . The 1894 OS suggests that it was, for a ...
by road_kill
Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:23 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: Kelvinhaugh Street - Car Showroom
Replies: 24
Views: 19965

Re: Kelvinhaugh Street - Car Showroom

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2006 - Its iconic statement already somewhat diminished
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by road_kill
Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:48 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: Kelvinhaugh Street - Car Showroom
Replies: 24
Views: 19965

Re: whats hot/whats not.

also meant to say that the latest new place in town is the pakistan cafe.trust me,it is doomed to failure as it is in the old bank building at the foot of byres rd where no previous incumbment has managed to survive.the university cafe seems to be the only place in that area that has seen them all ...
by road_kill
Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:00 pm
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: whats hot/whats not.
Replies: 18
Views: 8933
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