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Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:25 amby mrsam
Dexter St. Clair wrote:
Such a tease, if we stuff £1o notes into your greasy palm would you showus any more...
Mr Sam
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:22 pmby johnamato
This my first time on the forum and i've been reading through about argyle st hidden streets there was a village i belive called grahamston hill and it was demolished for extentions to the central station and there is still shop front that you can see way down below the station.and when you are down in the cellars of some of the shops you can smell the dampness after a heavy rainfall and some of the shops flood at times due to rise in the in the celtic shop cellar there are parts of the wall bricked up that looks like a old door way under the street regards debenhams,hmv there is three floors below street level as i have been down there delivering
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:28 pmby rabmania
Is it Groundhog Day again? Dex, point the 'search' taser, and fire!
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:21 pmby Dexter St. Clair
Thanks John for summarising the many myths surrounding what's underneath Central Station.
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:30 pmby rabmania
Dexter St. Clair wrote:Thanks John for summarising the many myths surrounding what's underneath Central Station.
Nice.
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:11 amby Bridie
An explanation I heard recently from someone who would have been in the construction line many years ago said that due to the lie of the land down to the Clyde that when the Central Stn was built they had to build it high (my words not his - he got a bit techy on me) and so the old street is underneath and accessed by an entrance in Jamaica Street (there is another) around where the taxi entrance is
- now don't all shout at me if this is common knowledge
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:29 pmby beneld
Bridie wrote:" due to the lie of the land down to the Clyde that when the Central Stn was built they had to build it high
Is this the reason the the bit of St Vincent Lane that meets Hope St is such a steep slope . It just seems out of place with the surrounding streets and lanes ?:
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:41 pmby Lucky Poet
Certainly where the old street was will be underneath the station...
I imagine the height of the station was largely dictated by the level of the pre-existing line from the south, come to think of it.
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:46 pmby Bridie
beneld wrote:Bridie wrote:" due to the lie of the land down to the Clyde that when the Central Stn was built they had to build it high
Is this the reason the the bit of St Vincent Lane that meets Hope St is such a steep slope . It just seems out of place with the surrounding streets and lanes ?:
According to my source the land around the Central Stn area would have been almost on a level with the Clyde don't ask me how far wide this would have been as I didn't go into that much detail but I can get more info. I said to him that I thought it was a myth and he said it wasn't.
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:51 amby oddjobby
Bridie, I have heard that before, about that section of the city centre having been 'built up' due to how low the land was with the clyde
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:24 amby Bridie
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=747&start=45the ninth picture down on that page ??
what is an undercroft?
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:25 amby Bridie
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=747&start=45the ninth picture down on that page ??
what is an undercroft?
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:29 amby scaryman2u
Bridie wrote:http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=747&start=45
the ninth picture down on that page ??
what is an undercroft?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercroft
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:42 amby mrbongo
Come on Fossil, if you come up with those pictures after my inevitable fatal heart attack / stroke - I'll be really annoyed!
Maybe it's time to call the producers of Time Team?
Re: A Street Under Argyle Street
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Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:53 pmby Mori
Fossil wrote:
Your all looking in the wrong st.
Pictures to follow
"they're digging in the wrong place!"
