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Vinegar Tom wrote:After a few tense moments ( Saturday 1:00 - one space only, Saturday 15:00 - one space only ) I got booked on this years must visit building.

It won't be here next year.

Can you guess what it is?

The Willow Tea Rooms?

The reason the booking system failed is that thousands of people were trying to book places on the Central Station tour when the lines were supposed to open at 9am on Tuesday. However, the site was already down at 8.45am. But, despite this, the tour was nearly fully booked when they tried to re-open...

Welll... what an unmitigated clusterfuck of a disaster that was.

Brochure was released this week: http://issuu.com/glasgowdoorsopenday/docs/dod_2013__final_/1?e=5717053/4388261

I did a bit of digging, and what I discovered corroborates my previous two posts on this subject: "It was commonly believed that wounded personnel were brought into the hospital by train via the railway line, which until it was removed ran right up to the boiler house. While it is true that pat...

beneld wrote:So what building are they on top of.

Probably the former RSAC.

Tiny part of the map, hopefully shows where the trains with the wounded went Interestingly, this is the 1913 version........... If you mean the line branching off under the clock tower then, no, I can't believe that's where the wounded were unloaded. That's just a small goods line leading to the st...

hambone wrote:has the Madeline Smith story been mentioned here ?remember watching that years ago on daytime telly.set around Blythswood Sq.

There's a 1950 film (mentined on HG here), and an 1980 TV dramatisation.

Great images Dazza, Thanks. :D Thanks Mori. The design of the place, the feel of it, the history etc And the smell! That caught me totally by surprise. Very hard to describe... would be ideal for a fascinating look at somewhere we are lucky enough to not see very often and would face stiff oppositi...

Excellent pics. Thanks for sharing. Given the nature of the place I'd expected it to be functional but it puts a new shiver into 'clinical'. Thanks. I did have reservations about uploading these photos, and I've deliberated for months whether I should show them owing to the fact that many people he...

The City Mortuary at Jocelyn Square finally closed its doors in December 2012. It was opened in 1933, having been designed under Thomas Somers, who was the City Engineer and Master of Works. For anyone wishing to know more about the site the mortuary was built on I'd recommend the chapter "You'...

Hunter Tomison's uncovered at Kelvinhall Underground:

Was it because Glasgow had such an abundance of architecture that they the planners (or destructors) became complacent in their need to redevelop or is it that more people, especially in the last forty odd years, have really started to appreciate them? Whenever I see any colour footage or photograp...

It largely won't even work on my computer - no photostreams load - so that, for the moment, is that. LP - try a different browser. It will probably be a combo of your OS and browser brand and version that's the problem. Yep, Flickr will only work for me when I'm using Firefox. Incidentally, http://...

I've moved to http://www.ipernity.com