The Hidden Glasgow Forums

There have been more photos and text added

http://www.hiddenglasgow.org/granary

Sharon

It turns out that "Sir Roger" the big stuffed elephant in the Kelvingrove was a resident at EH Bostocks Scottish Zoo, and toured around scotland with Bostock & Wombwells travelling menagerie. Does anyone know if there are any photos of this menagerie?...or of Sir Roger when he was alive? Sharon

I have just added are some photographs of "Scotlands Field of Dreams"...and i watched the game last night, dreaming is all we can do it seems!!!

The photos were taken by Iain during the rebuilding of Hampden.

Sharon

Ive added more history about the granary...this can be found at

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/granary/more01.htm

courtesy of Stuart Cameron

Can you add to this?

Sharon

To post to these forums you will have to register...all we need is a username, email address and password from you so it only takes a minite to do!!! We were having a few teething problems with the registration process - people were unable to logon successfully. If this applies to you please let me ...

I'll try and sort this problem out later... hopefully!

> There is also an underground operating theatre at the old Cowglen Hospital which was used during WWII. If you walk around the grounds of Cowglen you will find a very unique plaque presented to the hospital from the American Army Medical Corp who were based at Cowglen during the war. Maybe worth a...

Wow! Now that is cool...in which case what do you know about the Royal Observer Corp bunker, it can be found between "the 50 pitches" and Luma Towers in Glasgow...someone pointed me to it, but i couldn't find any information about it ;o(

It was apparently used in TV ads at one point.

Sharon

Hi Sarah, thanks for the links.

If your mate is interested in bunkers this site is one of the best!!

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/

Sharon

Does anyone have any photos of the Glasgow Smailes Better banner that hung on the big gasometers at springburn when entering the city westbound on the M8????

Sharon

the top layer of the old buildings has gone already ;o(

I think this stuff is worth a project forum of its own!

Sharon

Following is an extract from a now expired website that i visited (The Milk Crate Gang i think)- sadly none of the photographs were online ;o( Bridgeton - Parkhead The Glasgow Central Railway Eastbound from Central Station, the low level route reached a junction at Bridgeton, the still used Argyle L...

Planned new projects currently include: > Glasgows Wartime Buildings > The Panopticon (Theatre of Varieties on Argyle Street) > Templeton Carpet Factory > The Clydeport Authority Building > Glasgow Green > Kibble Palace > Signs that point to abandoned buildings > a poster series (dookits, water towe...

There are supposed to be 14 of these, to date we have found 8!
If you know of a water tower please post here and let me know...

Sharon