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as a regular visitor to queens park ,walking through most days ,going to the city centre,this summer has seen more birds and animals etc than I have noticed before, here is a wee list... mostly seen around the pond area next to Pollokshaws road. mallard duck,woodpidgeon,feral pidgeon,moorhen, coot,h...

r.e, the BHS store on Bath st, that site as I believe was previosly a block of similar to what is still there in Bath st, offices ,with some flats above. My grandda was a caretaker in that building ,and lived with his family there long before BHS were there ,talking about ,1930s,hope this helps?

think their full title was ,galbraith and cochrane,shops all over greater glasgow area,also anyone remember ,coopers .then coopers fine fare,then I think became gateway,now long gone as is shoprite and kwik save,how sad.

sounds like your works van was a health and safety issue on wobbly wheels.old sherpa vans were notorius for dodgy steering,kingpins I believe,..still on health and safety,in the early 1980s,I worked for a famous southside tiling company,as an apprentice,I had to travel from glasgow to hunterston nuc...

yip,st let the back tyres down a bitnot only the ancient 1960s bedford ha van ,but also in production until 1983!,the marina van aka ital van,you had to use a grease gun regularlly to stop front suspension from collapse,engines pretty good ,gearbox a bit fragile,I had a morris ital 1982 model ,used ...

best find a jehovas witness ,cause the next padalist Isee going through a red light in front of me will surley get a skoda octavia with 4 large govanites right through him.............

would it not be good if glasgow,s buses were driven by vw drivers,.. everybody at work early....

provxxed my point again ,this very evening,Kingsgate retail park EK, guy drivihg silver vw, golf, ,,of course ........... wrong way round the clearly marked car park traffic system ,causes me and car in front plus all those at other junction ,to test our brakes! He speeds off not giving a 4xxx, Is i...

if only everything in life was as late as a vw driver?

well said, Delmont , driving standards are getting worse. These days its harder to pass the test,cars are easier to drive,so why so many halfwits driving ? still think its vw,s .Not the car itself ,because they are pretty good, just the driver ,in many cases.

i have held a driving licence for over 30 years and driven many hundreds of thousand miles,in cars ,vans ,hgv s ,and even motorbikes,, but in past few years I have spotted a pattern!, . it seems to be volkswagen drivers that cause the most greif on the roads ,eg, daftness, cutting in or out ,speedin...

had an old gpo yellow van, bedford h.a model,otherwise known to my friends as the haha van.totally hillarious to drive,brakes non stopping type,fortunately the noise from the back axle meant you didnt want to be going over 30.replaced this in 1989 with my first new car ,a Yugo 311 very cheap,brand n...

yes,Helen it is a very good walk indeed, goes from auldhouse all the way down to Blantyre. Done it many times since way back when? .think I was doggin school the first time ,about 1977/78. The area has become very overgown and eroded over time but you can still follow the original pathways,dates way...

smells, apart from scotbeef ,anyone ever been down the glen ,aka calderwood glen , the river aptly known as the rotten calder, after heavy rainfall ,well it stinks ,been fishing at sandy bay on that river ,river was in spate ,about september, caught 3 decent brown trout on the worm ,tried cooking an...

scotbeef,had a processing factory , right in the middle of two housing estates ,ie, st.leonards and calderwood,around 1970s and early 1980s . almost in the centre of new town ,East Kilbride,does anyone remember the stink, and the pollution in the Brancumhall burn ,and when ,on occasion the odd cow e...