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cumbo wrote:Looks like the old Freight linner terminal at Gorbals and some track going towards Polmadie cant remember the Junction name perhaps Muirhouse? Cue Mr 93.........

Muirhouse Junction is just beyond Pollokshields East where the Cathcart line meets the Barrhead & Kilmarnock line. The Freightliner terminal was located at what was known as the Gushetfaulds spur.

Ah this is down my neck of the woods. You can nearly see my flat from the last photo there. Just around the corner for the crazy Gateway with the suspended flying angel and giant photoframe. Just cut off on the right hand side of the photograph.

this is what I'm talking about for those who have not seen it.

stevoooo wrote:

this is what I'm talking about for those who have not seen it.

Was that large photograph taken at Meadoside granary by any chance I've only caught a glimpse of it from the car but it looks familiar.

I don't know, but here is a better image of it and maybe someone will recognise it.



also found this...

For their inspiration on this project, the artists turned to the History of the Gorbals. The Gorbals grew up as a satellite of Glasgow. It was famous as the first staging post for immigrants; first there were the Highlanders from the Clearances, then the Irish from the Potato Famine and then the Jews from Eastern Europe. This was a place that thrived on cultural diversity: In a treatise on Scotland in the 19th Century, Scots were advised to visit the Gorbals to “experience the sounds and smells of Europe”.

As described above the Gorbals was always a place of arrival, yet also a place to reach out from. Most immigrants would aim to find their feet in the Gorbals and the move to the new world beyond. It was this sense of reaching out that became a focus to be embodied within the commission to create a gateway to the Gorbals, that is, The Gatekeeper.

The Gatekeeper depicts a dream. The figure in the photograph seems to emerge from the past and dreams herself as the sculpted figure above. The sculpted figure hangs in the air free and unencumbered; she is a dream of the future.

so now you know!

that guy Dan Dubowitz was involved in all this. he's the bloke who did an exhibition about St Peter's Seminary, in New York.
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/th ... 1263502003

I quite like the gatekeeper figure....but WTF are the nightmarish creatures round the side of the building all about!!! ????

I would not want one of those outside my bedroom window!

Im pretty sure the colonade has got to be the granary....got to be!

duncan wrote:pgcc and cumbo get it right (never knew it was called Gushetfaulds). the prize is... the brick from clue 2 unless Sharon wants it for herself

I never refuse a good brick!!

Sharon wrote:

duncan wrote:pgcc and cumbo get it right (never knew it was called Gushetfaulds). the prize is... the brick from clue 2 unless Sharon wants it for herself

I never refuse a good brick!!

I thought me and cumbo were joint winners Unless Coke Bottle needs company

coke bottle ALWAYS needs good company!!!

Sharon wrote:coke bottle ALWAYS needs good company!!!

If it behaves itself it might even meet Irn Bru bottle (PGCC mascot)

The cars in order:

Vauxhall Nova Merit

Ford Orion XR?? or GLS.

Don't twig the location.

That is all.

Chris...

Sharon wrote:

duncan wrote:pgcc and cumbo get it right (never knew it was called Gushetfaulds). the prize is... the brick from clue 2 unless Sharon wants it for herself

I never refuse a good brick!!

"I love my brick..."




James H

hmmm, looks like i'm going to have to go back to reclaim that brick. i knew i should have picked it up when i saw it

hahaha.... i keep meaning to go on a walk to SPECIFICALLY collect bricks ....


hmmmm ...im not certain this is a good thing, but rock'n'roll!