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A lot of the stonewrok from Walkers Bridge can still be found strewn along the banks of the Kelvin ...who's gonnae be the first to show a pic? Here's the bridge in all its glory, looking south: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/eachdorcha/G026854X.jpg Here's what's left: http://i10.photobucket...

Here are a few more fest pics: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/eachdorcha/02-26-12.jpg The view from the tower. http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/eachdorcha/02-26-2006090318PM.jpg Not sure what the significance of all this was - gardens from around the world, perhaps? http://i10.photobuc...

Probably have to go for either Adam Smith or Boyd Orr. AS is such a badly designed building too, on two different levels on each side, it's so stupid. The Adam Smith - the only building I know where you can get out of the lift on the 5th floor and walk up to the 4th. The Boyd Orr - described by the...

I think they actually started off on Tyneside, and that Greggs of Rutherglen was their first foray north of the Border.

Ours leads to a very dull cupboard-under-the-stairs. But lawnmower larceny isn't confined to Ibrox, Viceroy - our close's and next door's went a couple of years ago during a summer spree in what estate agents sometimes call "relatively-leafy North Kelvinside".

red_kola wrote:Glasgow folk don't know wat to do on a two door bus.

Some of the two-door buses have a helpful sign on the second door, saying: "This is not a door".........

That's done the trick - cheers Alan.

Harry Diamond was, of course, head of PR at Glasgow City Council.......

The language's spellings were modernised and simplified fairly recently so the spelling in the brochure would be an old spelling. I think it's actually just a typo - ceilidh has survived various spelling "modernisations" unchanged over the years. The Highland village was the genuine article apparen...

OK - this is no doubt my own stupid fault - but I now can't get rid of the overlay thing. In other words, every time I go into Google Earth, central Glasgow is stuck in a monochrome 1960s time warp. Will I have to install it again? Any advice gratefully received........

The Archives are in Thurso St, near Partick Cross (they featured in a thread here some time ago about mysterious buildings in the area). I've never used them, but their website suggests they're prepared to be fairly helpful with straightforward enquiries, although anything more intensive incurs a re...

Anyone remember Diggens - "Where the Good Cakes come from" .......or M&A "Ma" Brown's?

Old QM Halls was my first place of residence in Glasgow, and I often wondered whether there had been anything on the site beforehand. Never heard any mention of a school, although I've had a look at one of my old maps (Geographia - not dated, but pre-Tunnel, so early 60's or before) and I see the re...

I spent some time trying to identify the location of "old people's flats" of which there are several pictures listed under Queen Margaret Drive (West End) on Virtual Mitchell. Couldn't figure it out at all, although I knew there had been some WW2 bombing in the area, and that there was a lot of rede...

I can testify that it was still in good shape this time yesterday.