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I was a volunteer car conservator for nine months. I have some below stairs pictures if someone can remind me how to upload using photobucket I will post some photos.

I remember being in the public toilet at Govan Cross many years ago(late 80's) and I was sure it had masonic decoration(eg eye, compass etc) yet the next time I was there in the 90's it was gone. Am I imagining things ?

Hi Monument PM me with a telephone number I may know of a storage space not a million miles away from the Gallowgate, Johnny.

Hi, I believe the coloured brick style is called polychromatic and not polychrome. The white staining from bricks is salt leaching out. This is called efflorescence.

Hi, I own a 50's car and have friends who are into fifties fashion. Just off of Queens Drive near Queens Park is a small row of pensioner houses built in 1951. Bar the modern cars the place is a time warp, If you want any further info drop me a PM and I will give you my number for more info, Johnny

Wont be able to make it im afraid I am away to see the best group in the world the next night. THE mighty FALL

I have seen Catherine Ann MacPhee live and own 33 Mrs Mills albums

The giraffe was pretty mangy, It probably was as old as the trams. My Father recently inherited a load of stuff which had belonged to his grandfather who worked on the trams between the mid 20's and mid 50's. Most of it consists of paperwork, regulation books, union stuff etc. If any of the transpor...

I dont know if this is of any interest, The Transport Museum has in its collection(not on public display) a lot of machinery relating to Glasgow's tram system. I spent a bit of time there as a voluntary conservator and saw some wonderful things including the giraffe they had in storage !

Hi, I read reference to this in another post but could not find any details of it using the search facility. Can someone tell me is this still going ahead and if so what are the details, Thanks, Johnny.

Nice one !. And an admirer of the Mark E. to boot !

At least he did not die before meeting Mark E. Smith or hearing Joy Division. Many lives have came and went without these delights.

I am a devout Atheist........

and George Orwell once refered to himself as a "Tory Anarchist".

What is this America and USA every one speaks of in this post ?

Remember folks, they are just like us...................aye right