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Just read this bit. Hello? I object! As a southsider tenement dweller I can't let this go unanswered. What about the all stonking Victorian and Edwardian tenements in Pollokshields, Queenspark, Govanhill, Shawlands and Camphill? This includes Glasgow's campest tenement at Balmoral Crescent on Queen...
by john-g
Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:26 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Clydebank Blitz - when Hyndland was also bombed
Replies: 41
Views: 72326

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/images/TGSS00002.jpg Townhead was declared a Comprehensive Development Area in 1962, to allow for the construction of the M8 motorway and the expansion of the University of Strathclyde. The plan proposed to reduce the number of dwellings from 6,500 to 2,400, the popul...
by john-g
Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:57 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Buchanan Street Station (Not Subway)
Replies: 138
Views: 379470

They're demolishing the brewery?!

They should preserve the tallest block with the pointy roof, transform it into swanky penthouses, that's what they'd do in Manchester. Especially if all they're going to replace it with is suburban brick rubbish.

The rest of it can go though.
by john-g
Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:21 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Street Furniture
Replies: 171
Views: 269871

Wow, http://www.hyndl.demon.co.uk/hyndland/dact/images/rebuild.jpg Although the plans for the new tenements were passed in April 1948, the building was not completed until 1954 . The new design matches the old in general terms, using similar building materials, and more or less the same layout of wi...
by john-g
Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:09 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Clydebank Blitz - when Hyndland was also bombed
Replies: 41
Views: 72326

Just received my copy of "the twilight years of the glasgow tram" and......

Its frickin ace! EASILY the best Glasgow book I've ever seen. Thanks Gap74!
by john-g
Fri Jul 16, 2004 6:32 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow IN COLOUR pre 1980
Replies: 114
Views: 183303

I have a hazy recollection of (I think) a newspaper article saying the sign was to be taken down and preserved, while the derelict buildings around are demolished to make way for the new Selfridges.

On the other hand, my mind may have just made that up! Gosh.... isn't reality tenuous?
by john-g
Fri Jul 16, 2004 6:25 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Empire sign in Brunswick St.
Replies: 19
Views: 13769

Don't get me started on St Enochs station! Bloody travesty that was. I think the key difference between Queen street and St Enoch is That the hotel fronting St Enoch was a masterpiece and the hotel fronting Queen street stank. I'm actually quite a big fan of those old Victorian train sheds, but of c...
by john-g
Sun Jun 27, 2004 8:57 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow IN COLOUR pre 1980
Replies: 114
Views: 183303

Impressive isn't it? I was down there a few weeks ago when they were putting up those giant cranes, it was quite late on and the sun was setting, but it was perfectly aligned with Bothwell Street! It looked exactly like that pic someone posted somewhere of the Sunset in Manhattan and I didn't have a...
by john-g
Sun Jun 27, 2004 8:48 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Past Present
Replies: 1319
Views: 2156583

Quality snaps those. I believe that's the first I've seen of the Grand Hotel in colour! I've heard people argue that the demolition of the hotel opened up views of Charing Cross mansions and as such wasn't such a bad thing, I think that pic proves otherwise though, as if a motorway would improve the...
by john-g
Sun Jun 27, 2004 8:24 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow IN COLOUR pre 1980
Replies: 114
Views: 183303

Wow, lovin those Troon pics.

Image

Edit: Picture resized
by john-g
Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:58 pm
 
Forum: Photo Sharing
Topic: Sunsets
Replies: 461
Views: 284196

The first colour pic shows Govan cross! You can recognise the large red tenement building which is still there. The tenements on the right were bulldozed in the seventies to allow the council to create more wasteland for the cultivation of weeds. :(
by john-g
Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:44 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow IN COLOUR pre 1980
Replies: 114
Views: 183303

Yeah, that's why I got it too. I'm just saying that from the point of view of a "reference/archive/what ever as to what glasgow used to look like before the days of our so called "cosmopolitan" age." its not worth buying. The stills on this thread cover all that was in the film, excluding a short se...
by john-g
Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:03 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Death Watch
Replies: 54
Views: 93283

I know everyone hates the new sheriff courts, but I actually really like them, sure its dark, foreboding and menacing... good! Good to see them reusing the old courts too. http://img67.photobucket.com/albums/v205/gleegieboy/sheriff_court.jpg Why do buildings always look bigger, grander and more impr...
by john-g
Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:23 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Glasgow sheriff court
Replies: 22
Views: 12152

To anyone considering paying twenty odd quid for this... DON'T. The film bombed for a reason, its shockingly bad. I just watched this today, at least up to the gorbals section, then I fast forwarded to see if there were any more Glasgow shots, there weren't. what you see on page 1 of this thread is ...
by john-g
Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:59 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Death Watch
Replies: 54
Views: 93283

Good pics! Just ordered a copy from Amazon:). The shots showing scenes which are recognisable, but in some way altered are best IMO. Scenes lost forever in the seventies just make me angry. I must say though this whole fascination with trams is a complete mystery to me, I mean when you've seen one t...
by john-g
Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:40 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow IN COLOUR pre 1980
Replies: 114
Views: 183303
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