When its gone its gone Archive

[crusty_bint]

Gleegie stated brick on FutureGlasgow, still not stuck in it as a palette for Glasgow though, despite it looking ok on this Gehry office building in Dusselforf's media port - Id still much rather prefer metal cladding.

Nice to look at, just need to get some idiot daft enough to build it.

Stepping forward me old china?

[Socceroo]

Stepping forward me old china? ::):

No thank you all the same. Amongst my present "portfolio" i am currently already doing my bit for the arty farty architectural brigade in Glasgow.

[tobester]

Noticed today that the old stand at Scotstoun Stadium (showgrounds) has been demolished

[AlanM]

Noticed today that the old stand at Scotstoun Stadium (showgrounds) has been demolished

Building a nice new shiny one for 2014

[Vinegar Tom]

Noticed today , a fragment of a cast iron cellar grill on the site of the Alexander Thompson tenements at Eglinton Street.

Was it from these flats? Looks about the right period? How many rats scuttled through?

[Vinegar Tom]

Nice office with new open plan conversion on Whitefield Road ,just down from Govan Town Halls.

From the look of the woodwork and the bricks it's quite old , but it won't last much longer.


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[John]

Lovely Vinegar Tom. I wonder how many poor souls spend long dusty days of their lives working in this little office which is now derelict and open to the elements.

[Josef]

It's been like that for years. Next door is the yard where they stored the facade for the Eglinton Toll Ballroom. And there's a brilliantly decrepit steamroller a couple of doors up.

[Vinegar Tom]

It's been like that for years. Next door is the yard where they stored the facade for the Eglinton Toll Ballroom. And there's a brilliantly decrepit steamroller a couple of doors up.

It's been like that for years? Wow , I thought that I would have noticed it before I will look out for the steamroller - that is just my cup of tea.

I wonder how many poor souls spend long dusty days of their lives working in this little office which is now derelict and open to the elements.

Interesting thought , those long dusty days belong to another era - one my father was familiar with, where a bright kid would escape the engineering floor for the draughting room

edit - god my spelling is terrible "drafting"??

[HollowHorn]

If I remember correctly, Smart Alex or Stuball posted up simillar photos over a year ago, I assumed that the building would have been pulled down by this time.

[Reenie Bujman]

I wonder how many poor souls spend long dusty days of their lives working in this little office...

I've often thought as much as I've pulled such places apart. Dad (a retired builder) used to load me and my brother in the works van and away we'd go to turn one of these into something completely different. No matter how good a job we'd do, it wouldn't have any character until the new residents stamped their personality on it. There's a sterility about new build.

[BTJustice]

I think I remember using this footbridge to enter Cathcart station but it must have been at least 25 years ago.





I had my camera with me today so I stuck it through the hole in the bricks to see if there was anything to see.





Not much but Im surprised its still there given the state the steel must be in and the weight of all the bird sh1t.

[Vinegar Tom]

Cast Iron gatepost by Anderson & Co Founders, Partick. Originally at the entrance to Queen's Dock, Finnieston, then ignored at the SECC ( without moving ) and very soon to be obliterated.

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[Vinegar Tom]

I should have got off the bus when I spotted this yesterday
The underground lavatory at Bridgeton Cross was excavated out and looking very photogenic.
When I got there today they had dumped a load of concrete in it. Part of ongoing streetscaping works.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Ronson - you are a star sir! Cumbo and I have been wondering for ages which Scottish band used this as a location for an album cover and you have solved the mystery.

I have the CD cover in front of me now and you can make out the Hermon Baptist Church on the right of the band. This is great as I have long since wondered what had been chopped off from the left hand side of the building and there it is captured on one the the greatest releases of the past 25 years.

I am going to have a celebratory bottle of beer tonight.

Cheers