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Don't know quite what you're after but: Little place: Totton Big place: Southampton Anything else: give us a clue :) Spot on! for a bonus virtual bag of soor plooms, see if you can find a link to a photo of the building this is attached to (ermm only cos I am having trouble hosting my own 'bigger p...

go on. Have a go.

gestalt, then google

Got 7 out of 10 so far, I thought this was gonnae be easy... I also thought this would be a doddle, and had about 4/10, but after seeing the quality of photos on another website doing something similar (there was a link on this thread, now seems to have gone) I am thinking of giving up :cry: Listen...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/Portkil/Bldg02.jpg To the right of those railings is a little bridge which used to carry the road over the Monkland Canal. It's dry now and you can walk through there, but I wonder if that building hides a pumping station of some sort? The Monkland Canal is pi...

Pgcc93 wrote:Got 7 out of 10 so far, I thought this was gonnae be easy...

I also thought this would be a doddle, and had about 4/10, but after seeing the quality of photos on another website doing something similar (there was a link on this thread, now seems to have gone) I am thinking of giving up

It looks a bit abstract, but is in fact very similar to something recent on Hidden Glasgow. Go on, have a guess. If you have been paying attention to HG recently, you'll probably be right. http://www.midden.fsnet.co.uk/detail2.jpg http://www.midden.fsnet.co.uk/detail2.jpg

Hope Seamy doesn't mind me borrowing/adapting his idea. The idea is you provide a picture of somewhere other than Glasgow, with enough visual clues to point you in the right direction. I reckon this first one is easy peasy and you should be able to 'find' it quite quickly. Looking for the town, but ...

Seamey wrote:the smell of the underground - no other underground system comes close.

Achh, how could I have forgotten that

james73 wrote:....These
days there's a couple of big fans suspended from the underside of the
bridge.....


James H

Haw! Jaggies! relegation isnae funny but fer some o' yis to go and hing yirsels' under the hielanmans umbrella, that's taking it a bit far. Its only a fitbaw game efter aw..

turbozutek wrote:...One Gyne. inspection lamp (Very handy for solder work, macro photography and erm... getting to the bottom of problems!)...
Chris...

erm... I am not sure what one of those is used for but, my mind is boggling... is it for what I think it is for??

What smells, pongs, aromas would you say are reminiscent of Glasgow. The following are smells I have never smelt anywhere else since uprooting from Glasgow all those years ago, except in my memory. On the walk from Roystonhill to the Barras on a Sunday morning I would go past the cigarette factories...

1 Townhead Library (all of Townhead would be nice) Spent a great deal of my childhood in here (and Denistoun library... is that still there?) 2 Pinkston cooling tower http://www.tones.demon.co.uk/Mac/ (top photo on this link) 3 The Monkland Canal (OK not a building but... )

Has anyone seen this. ...A lawyer (Robbie Coltrane) finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect crimes. ...source IMDB I watched it again the other day and it dawned on me that it was this programme that...

Thought this might interest any Glasgow railway buffs From the BBC fans forum (RE when will Celtic Park be completed) ....oddly, the fifth and final stage was reopening the old railway line running up from dalmarnock direction and building a train station outside the stadium..... http://www.bbc.co.u...

Each time I visited Southampton I promised myself I would take a photo of what I assumed was cable storage towers; big round cicular structures a bit like gasometers. Too late! Had a visit to Southampton today and the towers were in the middle of being demolished. I am coming to the conclusion that ...