The Hidden Glasgow Forums

Gordon Barr has just started a page for the Glasgow Police Boxes, I think it was in response to a recent planning application to turn some of them into coffee stands, as in Edinburgh.

It's at:

http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~gbarr/tardis/

Gary

I see the plan for this site is now to build a single, 139 metre tower with 39 stories of retail, office and housing space. If built, it would by far be the tallest building in Scotland. Am I right in remembering that Glasgow City Council at least used to have a rule on the height of new development...

Middle of Cambuslang Main Street if I'm not mistaken Mod Foss, above the classy emporium that is More Store??

Gary

I've stuck a few pics of this area onto a Yahoo photos page, if anyone is interested. Most of the pics are of industrial sites just prior to and during redevelopment. A few bings, farms, the old Hallside Steelworks site, Hallside Primary School (old and new, under construction) and various other bit...

I'd forgotten, but for anyone curious what a bing is, there's a pic of one that I sent to Ed Boyle's site that I mentioned above, it looms large in the background!

http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/ ... ailway.htm

Gary

Yeah, there's the big one behind Westburn where they blew up a supposedly unexploded bomb the other week (!), but I heard that part of it cannot be removed due to badger setts. There's also a smaller bing behind Newton, not so high as the Westburn one, but some of the old mine buildings still loiter...

Hi MF, Sure, I'd be happy to have an excuse to traipse across that way again, not been walking there for a few years now since I moved away from the area and my faithful dog died! There's loads of stuff down that way, strange wee ruins and old industrial sites that I've long thought would go well on...

Someone has mentioned cinemas... I'm pretty sadly into these old barns, and have a fair few pics that I'll happily share. I've been around the Brittania/Panoptican with Gordon Barr, the pics of that day are on his website at: http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~gbarr/cinemas/glasgow/panopticon_new/index.html...

As I recall, even before M&S began their tunnel and extension, the building had already been repaired in the late 80s/early 90s, when part of the facade was replaced after a spell of being shored up. I remember being really annoyed when M&S then seemed surprised that their tunneling had agai...

Not only can I also confirm that they were OS height markers (didn't older OS maps used to print the height of each marker at its location?), I'm also very familiar with the one in your photos, having spent most of my life in that particular corner of Cambuslang! This is actually a really good examp...