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Postby nuttytigger » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:43 pm

if he has to say it i think it should be spelt cludgie

enjoyed today - looking forward to friday
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Postby My Kitten » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:59 pm

Thanks Dicky for the tour :) Grand day out
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Postby james73 » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:27 pm

Thanks to DH for a great day out. 8)

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Hollowhorns bike...
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Carpetmunchertastic...
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Postby Field Marshall Shug » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:00 pm

This is weird...I was in Hamilton for the first time last Saturday. Our paths almost crossed for the second time. Did you notice there were no buses in the station and did you get accosted by the middle aged fella who kept going on about the actor Christian Bale? Weird!
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Postby Smartalex » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:38 am

Another great HG day out, Cheers DH.
Hamilton Mausoleum:-
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Scottish Arts Council Funded Thing:-
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Postby Alan L » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:59 pm

tip2tail wrote:Thats my photos now all online guys:

http://tip2tail.co.uk/gallery/v/hgham/

Enjoy!

PS CLUDGEY


Hope you don't mind me posting this. My flat is only a few feet out of shot on the right hand side.

In fact, had the photie been taken 15 minutes earlier, you'd have caught my gf and I dragging our hungover limbs up the hill towards the station. :oops:


Edit. Will attempt to figure out how to steal and repost a photie shortly.
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Postby tip2tail » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:53 pm

Alan L wrote:
tip2tail wrote:Thats my photos now all online guys:

http://tip2tail.co.uk/gallery/v/hgham/

Enjoy!

PS CLUDGEY


Hope you don't mind me posting this. My flat is only a few feet out of shot on the right hand side.

In fact, had the photie been taken 15 minutes earlier, you'd have caught my gf and I dragging our hungover limbs up the hill towards the station. :oops:


Edit. Will attempt to figure out how to steal and repost a photie shortly.


If your talking about my photos then just go onto the page with that photo on it and paste the URL into your post. Thats the easiest way - people will then click on that link and see it.

Where about is your flat then?

Mark :)
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Postby My Kitten » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:54 pm

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Postby Alan L » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:22 pm

tip2tail wrote:If your talking about my photos then just go onto the page with that photo on it and paste the URL into your post. Thats the easiest way - people will then click on that link and see it.

Where about is your flat then?

Mark :)


Nae bother.

http://tip2tail.co.uk/gallery/v/hgham/DSC00932.JPG.html


It's on the first floor of the building just out of shot beyond the "Don Jose" restaurant in that photo.
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Postby My Kitten » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:27 pm

Alan L wrote:

It's on the first floor of the building just out of shot beyond the "Don Jose" restaurant in that photo.


If we knew that we couldve come up for a cuppa tea, as theres "no food" in hamilton after 5 :roll:
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Postby Alan L » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:30 pm

My Kitten wrote:[img][img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/434768884_10e356e222.jpg[/img]


In the lead up to Valentine's Day, that shop had an advert in the window worded along the lines of:

"Botox treatment - the perfect Valentine gift for the special lady in your life"

I'd never claim to be an expert on such matters, but surely any gift that implies that your significant other's face is anything other than perfect would go a long way to ensuring that it'll be the last gift you ever buy her?
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Postby HollowHorn » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:41 pm

:twisted:....(To Kitten's food post)
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Postby DickyHart » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:07 pm

thanks everyone for coming, i really enjoyed it, im glad you did too.
sorry about the food situation, wasent my idea to go to chambers, hehehe
Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?
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Postby Cyclo2000 » Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:22 am

DonL, Those flats used to be offices, IIRC.
Watson's Personal Finance and the offices of Anthony Karpe, the Jewelers.

As to Chambers, that was my local for many years and used to be called the Crown. It was one of the few places in Lanarkshire (the Heathery in Wishaw being another) where you could see a live band. It was my friend's dad who held the license back then and he held it through the refurbishment into Chambers and for many years after, until the brewery bought it back from him. For a while it was the place to go!
They're was another floor on the building then (it was still there up till about ten years ago). There were two flats, one of which was rented out and my friends lived in the other, larger flat. To the rear were the original, Victorian Hamilton Public Baths - the demolition of which was a damned disgrace.
That whole street has been decimated. On the next corner down, where the Hamilton Water Palace is now, stood a proper Grocers, like Arkwrights in "Open All Hours" called Kenilworths. It was run by two brothers and everything was kept behind the counter. Most of their loyal customers were batchelors (like me at the time) and we used to leave the boys a list of what we wanted in the morning and pick it up all packed in a box at night.
On that same stretch of street there were two bars, a cafe, a fried chicken joint and a sweety shop. One of the bars was a shrine to the Accies and run by the guy who now runs (or he ran, I think he's deed) the Bay Horse in Bothwell Road.
Talking of Bothwell Road...just up the street from the Bay Horse is a Chinese joint called Chims. Originally (well, Duh!) a private house, it was owned by the father of Old Mr. Begg, of Begg and Whiteford, the veterinary surgeons in Stra'ven. I don't even know if Begg and Whiteford still exists as such cos Young Mr. Begg has long since retired. I know the original Whiteford's been dead for a long time too.
I noticed in yer photo albums a pic of the railings outside Hamilton College - these are the surviving panels of the Hamilton Palace fence. The rumour is (and has been since their installation) that they're upside down. Whaddya think?
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Postby TEAMSANO » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:27 pm

i work in hamilton, and those pics are so familiar to me.
my boss told me about the cottage near the mausoleam being haunted, and a scary experience he had down there.
good pics tho!
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