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Simba wrote:Where's the last picture? Bricks look a bit like Joe Black but can't work out what they'd be excavating for a new building that close to it.
Socceroo wrote:I like the Joe Black building very much. A real hidden gem. We'll need to get the Western Infirmary flattened so that we can see it better.
Socceroo wrote:I like the Joe Black building very much. A real hidden gem. We'll need to get the Western Infirmary flattened so that we can see it better. Mind you according to some politicians and NHS Executives we might not need to wait too long.
I've worked with two Building Contractors in the University Campus previously, and have seen that there are a number of mines which are within and which cut across the Campus at various points.
I used to be familiar with some of the names of them. Not so much because of working in the University, but because some of them ran across the West End and if you are doing any new Construction in the area at all you had to be aware of them. They are not all charted.
There is one further up from the Joe Black building which we built over and partly filled in at the bend on University Avenue at University Place, i think this would have met up with the mines under the Joe Black building. I was told that the mines under the Joe Black building run towards the banks of the Kelvin.
The other big mine in the University that i recall being told about from some of the older colleagues that i worked with was the one under the University Library which they came across in the late 1960's / early 70's when building the Library. Apparently they were pumping Grout and Concrete into a shaft for weeks.
Further north from the University and heading up towards the River Kelvin at Belmont Street bridge, the area is absolutely peppered with old mines, which again sometimes exited on the south side of the Kelvin Gorge.
You may recall reading that the "Bookends" of Belmont Crescent came down not once but twice. In the 1870's they fell down resulting in a landmark court case following the death of Stone Masons and then in the 1970's they were ordered to be pulled down due to settlement damage.
The houses in Belmont Street on it's east side which met with with Great Western Road were propped for years before being demolished due to settlement.
Hamilton Park Avenue it's the west side was propped for years due to settlement. I could go on and on with a long list of streets in the west end that have been grouted.
gordon wrote:Iron ore or something maybe? Remember looking at an old map of Gushetfaulds and the site of the Govan Iron Works, it had a mine right beside it. Could have been coal right enough, but conceivable they could have been connected.
Not knowing anything about Glasgow's geology makes this a wild guess.
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