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Posted: **Mon May 03, 2004 9:49 pm**

Hi Guys,

I'm looking to see if any folks on here have any photos of Hamilton Almada Street in particular before County Buildings (South Lanarkshire Council HQ) was built and during the construction process. Its actually my dad is looking for them to help jog some memories.

Any older pictures of the Hamilton area are welcome.

Cheers,

Posted: **Tue May 04, 2004 10:57 am**

i cant help you there :)!!!

Posted: **Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:27 pm**

hey, thanx for that!1

Posted: **Fri May 20, 2005 1:44 pm**

Just found this thread when I was looking to gather some Hamilton threads together. Below are some photos taken by my dad as a teenager when the county buildings first opened. I found these when I was going through old stuff and scanning in the negatives.

- all copyright my dad of course...

THe date reads 14th August 1964 (The year is hard to make out actually)

Posted: **Fri May 20, 2005 8:25 pm**

County Buildings being built.

Posted: **Fri May 20, 2005 9:29 pm**

The County Buildings were built on the site of the old Hamilton Barracks, weren't they?

If so, I might have a photo of it. I'll go look.

Posted: **Fri May 20, 2005 11:37 pm**

Does anyone know how high they are because I reckon it must be one of the tallest buildings in Scotland.

Posted: **Sat May 21, 2005 7:49 am**

Now

I checked emporis high building page but is said Hamilton had none :?:

, which is a bit weird.

Its 20 floors tall

Is it on a hill because to me it looks quite tall as well, 20 floors isnt exactly huge

. It was just either refurbished judging by these photos or is getting demolished.

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:33 am**

Vladimir wrote:Is it on a hill because to me it looks quite tall as well, 20 floors isnt exactly huge . It was just either refurbished judging by these photos or is getting demolished.

Refurbished. The concrete was of the "kingston Bridge" type and hed needed some work. They also installed new heating/air con with double glazing and re-paved and fixed the concrete on all the paths and the bridge at the entrances, along with a new VIP car park (the "pleb" one being a good 5 mins walk away - incedentally the Fire muster point too!).

All done now. Looking good as new.

Oh yeah! It is on a hill!

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:57 am**

Oh yeah! It is on a hill!

Is it not, it always seemed higher up than Motherwell. Its actually a bit like the UN headquarters

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:09 am**

Vladimir wrote:
Its actually a bit like the UN headquarters

its actually based on that!

its also a Class A listed building, so unfortunatly they cant knock the eyesore down ever!

p.s tip2tail posted under my name!

Posted: **Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:31 pm**

ach I don't know I used to hate it, but after the refurb I actually like it. Clean simple lines, I think it looks quite tidy now.

Posted: **Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:17 pm**

i still hate it,

although the wedding suite in it is nice, well the registry office, my uncle got married in there 5 years ago and it was lovely

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:17 pm**

nuttytigger wrote:i still hate it,

although the wedding suite in it is nice, well the registry office, my uncle got married in there 5 years ago and it was lovely

I disaggree. i also like it.

Mark

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:20 pm**

tip2tail wrote:
nuttytigger wrote:i still hate it,

although the wedding suite in it is nice, well the registry office, my uncle got married in there 5 years ago and it was lovely

I disaggree. i also like it.

Mark

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