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Great photo there..... I remember the big skylight but thought in my mind it was a dome..

The wee tenement block painted white next to the Heilen Jessie is supposed to be the oldest in Glasgow.

I used to get sent by my work to deliver mail to places in the town and there was a place near Boots with a gated lift. but I think there were quite a few of them in the big buildings .Does anyone remember the Colosseum shop.. in Jamaica st...

Timothy Whites chemist on Argyle st
Cable shoe shop
Richards shops
Chelsea Girl
Maceys took over when M&S moved in Argyle st for a while
Granite House
Jays furniture
Birrells
Bata shoes
Dido

Some intricate work on just one old building at Parkhead, if you look at this same tenement from Duke st you can see heads of the oweners family sculpted into it... http://i.imgur.com/AjioVT6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Naaq9OO.jpg Found this sign a couple of years ago set into the side of a shop in old ...

Id say flats are newer build types, but the old late 1800s are all tenements... its described as a multi sub standard dwelling in the urban core.... but you canny call the posh wans up the Parade.. Partick, Dowanhill that...I think there is a big gap between slums and tenements..

In the forties there was a large skating rink in the Kelvin Hall....

The ground in the park is contaminated.. and couldnt be used for a concert a while ago.... but it didnt stop weans hivving picnics ...strange... did you know part of the Green was also contaminated with rubble from the old gas works.... they had to dig it all out... near Nelsons monument... where th...

No its still a tenement... but not a slum one.. aye Id think they still say tenement.. I know I do..

Vermin is to light a word..... I thought I was taking a nervous breakdown it got so bad, my close was a cesspit, it reminded you of Fagans days in London it was so bad.. there wasnt a neighbour you could trust... my weans milk was stole on a permanent basis if I didnt meet the milk man early enough....

Kent st. at the corner of London road next to the chapel ... and the railway at Bellfield Bridge was bombed ..

wow thats some place.. a wee time warp shop.. Id love to get inside there..

Does anyone remember Key Money..... when you were renting a house from a factor you paid this key money.. to me it was a bribe. I remember we moved round the corner to a better room and kitchen and the woman in the house asked for money for leaded glass she was leaving on the bedroom windows and a b...