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Cyclo2000 wrote:"They talked of building where the Train Station is, but couldnt because of ?old Mines and ?Railway plans, and a feeling that Railways were gonna be a thing of the past."
I've heard a different version to the ones expressed in your comment and the planners notes.(viz there wasnae enuff space)
I've heard it explained away as a zoning struggle. C-nauld was halfway split between two councils and the dominant one (Monkland I presume) wanted the INDUSTRIAL rates as they're much more lucrative than the domestic rates. Therefore the toonie got pamped on the hilltop instead of down in the valley. The Carbrain spine didnae get built cos the other cooncil (Lanarkshire?) bulit houses where it shoulda been. It was gonna be a bank with trees on the top, I believe.
The abscence of the banking and the non appearance of the other two thirds of Copcatts (admittedly wild) scheme left much of the toonie a windswept, desolate deck.
What do you think of our chances of looking some of these old geezers up? Maybe we could set up a meeting somewhere...the theatre would seem ideal. And this is the 50th year of Cumbernauld....
Cyclo2000 wrote:and this might be the kinda opportunity we need...
WORK AND OTHER DEAR GREEN FABLES
By Brian Miller
Cumbernauld Theatre Company
Fri 29 June @ 7.45pm
Tickets £8/£5
Welcome to the 2007 Saint Mungo Grieve Memorial Lecture to hear Hugh Clyde (Glasgow Man) on his favourite theme 'work' - a subject studied by many, performed by few. Sharing sliders with Jimmy Maxton and rubbing revolting shoulders with Jimmy Reid - Hugh's list of jobs has been endless. Now the act of work is extinct, Hugh's the ideal choice of speaker, escorting us through a menagerie of Glasgow Folk Heroes, including Agnes Dawson (champion riveter and spitter), Kurt McKenzie (Adolf's second-in-command) and not forgetting Uncle Frank - a Condorrat barricade-maker during the great strike.
We're delighted to re-unite local artist/writer Brian Miller and actor Ron Paterson, for this rollicking one-man show, first performed at the Theatre in June 1977.
Come and meet the author and director of the show in the Festival Bar afterwards for a chat, and get 50p off a drink. See our bar page for more information.
Cyclo2000 wrote:Late June you say. I refer the gentleman to the post I made regarding the 29th of June just on the previous page...
Cyclo2000 wrote:Late June you say. I refer the gentleman to the post I made regarding the 29th of June just on the previous page...
And before I get beaten to it, the Theatre are showing Cumbernauld:Town for Tomorrow on the 24th of June.
Jamesie1970 wrote:Heres a hit list of what Id like to see up here
Broom Road
Arns Road
Fannyside Road
Kilt Road
The old road behind Hawthorn Road
The Bridge and The Bell at the Railway Station
Those older houses in Carbrain/Greenfaulds
YMCA in Kildrum
The Village
Castlecary Bridge
Railwayway bridges in the glen
Abandonned mine entrances in the Glen and Glencryan
Luggiebank
Then there are the many houses, bridges, underpassess, murals, sculptures, paths, roads and junctions used and abandonned, that were part of the New Town Plans.
If anyone is there ahead of me in June, take a camera...
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