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john wrote:Some comparison shots....
Parliamentary road, 1955. Correct me if I'm wrong here but I believe, the spire in the far distance is the Townhead church on Roystonhill, tallest spire in the city and recently saved from the council by determined community action:) The tenements in the middle distance are obviously all gone replaced by high rises, Buchanan bus station I believe sits behind the tall building extreme right, The brutal St Andrews house office block has replaced the beautiful church in the foreground.
Now,
johnjoe wrote:Where on Buchannan Street is the tunnel shown in the thread with the water running through it ?
I have tried to identify where the tunnel is which passes over the Buchannan station tunnel
Pgcc93 wrote:Heres a map showing the tunnel from Buchanan Street Station. It's now been filled in at the Eastern end but note the Air Shaft is that still extant in some shape or form I wonder
james73 wrote:
and am looking at page 31 - your image above shows an air shaft and, as
you said earlier in this thread, there's a strange circular are in Sighthill
Park. I'm not sure what it's like, but I'll take a wander up there and have
a look - it's not a nice place to hang around though.
James H
Pgcc93 wrote:Going by line of sight I reckon this must be it.
A promo shot of the building just after completion.
james73 wrote:As an aside, does anyone know precisely where the old Pinkston Power Station
chimney was (the big wide one)? Was it on the canal island?
Pgcc93 wrote:AMcD wrote:
Could it be war-time camouflage
Think you could be right Allan. Best theory yet !
It would have been a massive land mark on the city skyline during WW2.
An aerial view of Pinkston Power Station on North Canal Bank Street, from the east, 1957. The stretch of the Forth and Clyde Canal from Port Dundas to the sharp bend at Speir's Wharf is in the middle distance.
The brick building was built 1900-1901 to generate electricity for the city's municipal tramways and in 1957 the camouflage paintwork applied during the Second World War is still clearly evident. The cooling tower was the largest in Europe when it was built in 1952-1954.
By 1957 Pinkston was providing electricity for the city's trolley buses, as well as trams, and was contributing 17 million units of electricity to the national grid.
Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Museums
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