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Postby JayKay » Fri May 21, 2004 11:27 am

Gazzathecoigne wrote:
When will the flats and the centre be demolished??


I used to have a friend who lived there. She told me 11 years ago that they were due to be demolished "soon".

As I said, this was 11 years ago.
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Postby Gazzathecoigne » Fri May 21, 2004 12:30 pm

JayKay wrote:
Gazzathecoigne wrote:
When will the flats and the centre be demolished??


I used to have a friend who lived there. She told me 11 years ago that they were due to be demolished "soon".

As I said, this was 11 years ago.


There's nothing like progress in action eh? :)
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Postby Apollo » Thu Jun 03, 2004 1:04 am

Knew I'd seen them recently. Two travelators at the big B&Q at Parkhead Forge Retail Park, to give access to/from the upper floor

New ones don't seem to much better than the old ones, one was dead :roll:
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Postby My Kitten » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:17 pm

turbozutek wrote:I too would like to see bad women.

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Postby JamesMc » Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:36 pm

Some photos from a couple of recent wanders around the centre
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Full of interesting shapes
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A strange atmosphere about the place...time has passed this vision of the future by.
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Postby AMcD » Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:45 pm

JamesMc wrote:Some photos from a couple of recent wanders around the centre
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Ha.. Great minds think alike :) . That's the same shot I took for "TALL" in the photo hunt.

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Nice one. Your's is a better shot by the look of it. 8)
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Postby JamesMc » Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:59 pm

Spooky! Always looking for an interesting angle on things. Credit to you for seeing this one first :)

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Postby Gazzathecoigne » Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:13 am

Strange atmosphere indeed James. I took a walk round a few days ago for the first time in yonks. It's kinda wierd, and I felt 10 again.

Post pics later.

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Postby YokerBloke » Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:36 am

Not been to the Anderston (to see whats left of it) centre in ages, may have a wander around one afternoon. See if it is still as depressing as ever. Great shots btw.
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Postby Gazzathecoigne » Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:34 am

If no body's perfect, why practise?
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Postby Gazzathecoigne » Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:44 pm

My pics I promised.

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Postby YokerBloke » Mon Nov 08, 2004 7:36 pm

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Brilliant shots there gtg!!!

A lot of them look very creepy even during the day! It must be the emptiness of the place. Desolate. Gonna need to try and get there myself to check it out sometime.

Those goddamn 60's planners really did a number on Andrerston alright!
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Postby Apollo » Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:32 am

I haven't been inside the place for some years, but even looking as I pass it seems very strange compared to its original build, now that they've chopped lumps out of it. It must look illogical to anyone who is only seeing it for the first time nowadays.

I think it suffered from being on the wrong side of the Hielanman's Umbrella. Despite the new hotel, I still think of anything through there as being downmarket and abandoned. Certainly none of the big name shop have tried to atract shoppers that way. Had the bus sttation survived there, it might have kept the area on people's radar, but once it went, there was little to maintain interest.

Now that this thread's grown, I always think of the place and McOnomy every time I see the marble tables we got in a wee shop that was open there for a while.
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Postby Gazzathecoigne » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:36 am

I actually got a roll & sausage, bottle of oasis and 10 fags from the cafe (Eileens), which was very reasonable and edable t'boot.

Good point about the Bus Station Apollo. Before its closure in 1994 things were definatley more lively. Don't get me wrong though the decline was evident far earlier than that. It was a place I spent alot of my first 10 years being dragged to by my Mum to visit my Granda, but also for her to pay the rent and leckie.

When I told my Mum I was going down there to take some snaps she burst out laughing, and said "Back to the seen of the crime eh?" Aparantly, when I was a toddler I had a habit of putting toys in my little brothers pram without letting on. According to my Mum I actually evaded security with a 2.5ft rubber Spiderman doll, which soon burst and leaked a gluey substance?
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Postby Apollo » Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:31 pm

I'd go further than that Gazza, and say that it never really made to the extent that one could say decline set in.

I used to vist McOnomy as they did decent prices on the HiFi of the day, then that mantle shifted to Comet, in the days when there were no pushy salespeople, you got to browse undisturbed, filled in a chit, and left with your stuff unmolested. There used to be the computer and calculator shop, plus the electronic shop.

Walking to the shops that were there always gave a feelng of 'Falling off the Edge of Glasgow', as if it wanted to be part of the place, but just didn't quite belong.

Last time I was down that way, it looked as if the same affliction was setting into that part of Argyle St, with closed and dirty shop front starting to spread. Plus, those that remain aren't really the type to attract folk through the Umbrella.
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