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ny152 Just settling in Posts: 1 Joined: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:25pm Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:34pm A visit to Pollok Park and the Burrell Collection perhaps. You also have Bellahouston nearby and Scotland Street School has a great little tearoom in it. 3 years, 5 months, 23 days, 23 hours & 9 minutes......

I took my first ever walk in Ruchill park at lunchtime today.

Great view from the flag pole, made all the better by the glorious weather I think

to travel to dundee from cupar its actually cheaper to use the bus than use the car(unless its a specific shop on one of the retail parks) to use the car it costs £10 in petrol plus £5 parking use the bus and its £7.50 return ticket Right, this one of my bugbears. Comparing the marginal cost of car...

Beavis thanks for that photo. Thats the actual lampost i was on about! Would be good to know where that road went and why its abandoned!! That road was the A73 before the 'new' re-routed part (i.e. the dual carriageway section that starts just north of Riggend) of the existing A73 was constructed i...

I bought something from the Currys Argyle St (Finnieston) branch only yesterday... Isn't that a P C World? Yes It used to be a PC World, however it was changed into a 2-in-1 Currys / PC World superstore a few years ago. Dixons have changed a number of their former Currys and PC World sites into joi...

kirstymaclaren wrote:Sorry, I meant the building on Shawpark st just before the entrance to the car park. It is made from bricks and has bricked up arches.

I think it's a former electricity sub-station.

kirstymaclaren wrote:Also, I was looking at a map of the area in 1951 and it says there was a school on the site of Maryhill health centre. Anyone know what school that was?

It was (an annexe of) St. Mary's Primary.

VCR rental FROM £8.84 per week!!

Bloody hell, how much did it cost to buy one in 1982?

A free blank tape - that would really seal the deal

How about the wee room up the pipe at Hogganfield Loch? Nope, I'm lost again. Steve, the reservoir at Ruchazie overflows into the Hogganfield Loch via a pipe into the burn on the golf course. If you crawl through the pipe you come to a wee room where you can stand up, the pipe from the reservoir en...

This is absolutely incredible!



Undeniably brilliant.

Huggy wrote:How about the wee room up the pipe at Hogganfield Loch?

Nope, I'm lost again.

Dexter St. Clair wrote:You could have stuck a ghost in.

You've lost me

Re the photo from the first link, if you look at the group of trees near the bottom of Cranhill Park you'll see two small structures amidst them. Does anyone know what the purpose of these structures was? Gold star to the first person with the correct answer. PS I'll be very impressed if any of you...

http://i929.photobucket.com/albums/ad131/Glesga_Steve/MO12-228-8002-1-1.jpg Bankend Street, disused canal and canal pipeline [see large version for detail] http://i929.photobucket.com/albums/ad131/Glesga_Steve/MO12-228-8017-1.jpg Bankend Street, motorway and canal pipeline [see large version for de...

It may just be coincidence but Texas Jack, the proprietor of the saloon, was a pal of Will Bill Hickok. There's stuff about the Will Bill 'visit' to Glasgow elsewhere in HG. Wil d Bill Hickock surely? I thought it was a typo at first but you did it twice. Most internet search results suggest Hickok...