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I took some quick fotos today on my way home... in the pishin rain I might add! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/crusty_bint/Tunnels/Dial%20House/North_el_entr.jpg Dial House from Pitt St (North elevation) This is where Dial House is entered on the first floor from Bothwell St. The entrance is...

I've had a look through those sites about the other three underground exchanges... great stuff!! I worked in operator services in Dial House for a while and there were some old dears who worked for BT for about 40 years or sumthin who used to go on about the tunnel all the time. i could never geto t...

Cheers for the reply!

Ive since had yoyur story confirmed... oh well, ho hum!

Looked at that map again... forget what I said about Tollcross Burn

I've been looking at a map of 1864/65 (http://www.old-maps.co.uk search "shettleston") and Causewayside St is there, although un-named. I've also been looking through old records of mining operations in the area and have found several references to James Dunlop & Co Ltd in partnership with Clyde...

Food for thought there... Causewayside St... obviously a remnant from Tollcross' industrial past? Theres a "back causeway" (tee-hee :oops: ) off Westmuir St in Parkhead. I think this requires further research, you've sparked me interest on this'un! I've also been considering taking a trip to the inn...

Count me in - I'd love to join you in a day's photographing advertisements on gable ends, walls etc. If anybody is interested in doing the same with burying grounds, I'd be happy to organise a wee trip round the boneyards. Theres an advert on a gable on Wellshot Rd. It only uncovered itself about t...

I know this is a bit late for this topic but I have come up with a list of twelve so far... *Garthamlock- 2 towers *Cranhill- 1 tower *Queenslie- 1 tower (demolished) *Priesthill- 2 towers (both demolished) *Pollok (Crookston Wood)- 1 tower *Crookston (now Markdow Ave)- 1 tower (demolished) *Bishopb...

Thats a shame you weren't able to incorporate the burn into your development. I have never heard the Stakis goss... will endeavor to find out more tho! I'm familiar with some of E&C's work, there are some flats of theirs in Landgside Rd and I think the Bank of Pakistan was theirs too. I was read...

Hi! I've been trying to find photos of St Enoch Station Platform area and i'm having "nae luck" ...begining to wonder if imagined the place. It seems to me that for such a large station to have left so little trace behind is pretty sad......... :( Dave , I stumbled across this http://data.scottishs...

Sharon (thats an unusual name... :twisted: ) your site is excellent!! Since reading about the Central's low level and other unused stations I find myself increasingly drawn to stare into the blackness and point them out to everyone whilst on one of these trains!! It really is getting embarassing! :o...

There is a tunnel near Old Shettleston Rd on the wasteland behind the Scottish Power building. It was some time ago now that I saw it but it may have ran parallell with the road. It was a large square opening cut into the ground and faced with brick. At the time I saw it, it was flooded, but you cou...

I was thinking about that as I was writing my last reply. I remember playing round about it as a child in the eighties . It was boarded up then and being built atop the steep west embankment with all those old trees. The burn there also emerged from a tunnel (which seems to be a popular theme in the...

Has anyone ever worked in Dial House on Bothwell St? For those who havn't, it's at the western end of Bothwell St, the last building, just behind the Eagle Building. Anywho, It was built in the late fifties for BT (still part of the GPO at the time), to house the central processor for the west of Sc...

I remember there was a place in the east end called Egypt, I tried looking in a street directory for it, but couldn't find it - anyone? Seamey Living in Shettleston (although I've moved on since... far away ...far, far away!) I recall in a local freepaper (the Gen or East End Independant) printing ...