WANTED!! Ideas for new projects....

[Doorstop]

It's definitely gated at both ends with buzzer entry Josef and I'm sure someone said it has been imbibed with surveillance cameras now too.

[minxy]

The tunnel's controlled entry and fully camera laden now, isn't it?

There ye go

[Doorstop]

See!

Knowed it.

Thanks Minxy.

[argosgold]

Newb alert.


Studied at the RSAMD in Glasgow 2004-2008. Lived in Queen Street, Bell Street, Riverview Place, White Street (Partick) and just off Glasgow Green. Got interested in older buildings, old train lines, old roads etc...


How about an interactive map (if there's someone on the site that could code such things) with photos and info from the forums (fora!) available by clicking?

Would be a great way to get lots of relevant info in one place, easily accessible, no?

[rango+33]

HI NAMES CHRIS AM NEW TO THIS SITE ,I AM FASTANED BY HIDDEN PLACES AND DONE LOT READING AND ASKING PEOPLE,NOW TWO THINGS ,1 A FRIEND OF MINE WORKED FOR BT THERE IS MOD TUNNELS ,SOME SORT ROOMS TO NEAR QUEEN STREET AND PHONE LINES ,HE HAD SIGN SECRET ACT,ALSO A GOOD POINT TO THIS WAS ABOUT 3MOUTHS LATER AFTER WE HAD LONG CHAT,I GOT VIST FROM MOD POLICE ASKING WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ECT AND GOT WARENING ,ALSO I WOULD LIKE ARANGE MEETING SO WE CAN SORT ALL INFO WE HAVE GOT ,AND WHAT RIGHTS WE HAVE ACESS SERTAN PLACES ,LIKE BUNKER NEAR SOUTHER GENERAL ETC ANY IDEAS THANKS

[BrigitDoon]

I'm not surprised you had a visit from ModPlod, making as much noise as you do

Welcome to HG

[spaceshuttle]

Glasgow Trains
We Built them we drove them.
Why dont we show em off

[Nobby]

Trains, eh ? Remember looking through half a dozen boxes of lantern slides of steam choof choofs once. This was maybe thirty years ago. Slides came from the British Rail offices in Glasgow; Buchanan St ? And I was lead to believe there was a walk in cupboard of slides, and what I got to see was but a small sample. Would be good to know where these are now, and whether anyone has digitised them. Don't remember for sure, but I'd bet such slides would also be a treasure trove for those wanting pictures of old stations etc ?

Which leads to second idea... lantern slides in general. Would be good to have these digitised and see what records they hold. Like steam engines and ships of all sorts. Or even record the local lanterns themselves ? I've got a magic lantern in my mum's attic, back in Cumbernauld. It was made by Lizars (a good Glasgow brand) and converted to electricity - via a fiercesome 500W bulb - many years ago. I'm based in Melbourne currently and couldn't get the weight of the lantern and slides back after my dad died. But, only just occurred to me, if I could digitise the glass slides, I wouldn't need to shift the lantern. Has anyone done that; digitised the standard 3.25/3.5 inch double glass slides ? Do I need a "transparency cover" for my scanner - whatever that is ?

Third idea. I know some of the slides that I have (other than shots of paddle steamers going doon the watter) include stories told at temperance society meetings, ect, like at the International Order of Rechabites. Not many of them on this forum I bet ! So, what of the social history of Glasgow's own social and religious dissenters - like the Rechabites, Band o Hope, Seamen's Mission, Tabernacle ? Do any of these organsiations / meeting places / head offices still exist ? Anyone got photies ?

[tinbasher]

I was staying at the Premier Inn Glasgow Zoo this weekend and talking to the manager he told me that you could access the old Calderpark Zoo site (The gates are just beyond the hotel) and that "It was quite spooky with all the old cages and enclosures overgrown and empty". I use a wheelcahr myself so although the gate was not locked it would have been impossible to get in. A wonderful project to record this before they build houses on it.

Tin

[HollowHorn]

It's already been well covered, TB.

[tinbasher]

Ok I am only new and still wandering around in the archives

[HollowHorn]

Enjoy it as much as I did, TB.

[the researcher]

my mum and her brother were raised at 17 shields road and am sure she told me there was an underground air raid shelter built in the playground of the shields road school? anyone got any idea where it would have been?
the school as far as im aware was closed in my time visiting my granny during the sixties and seventies though i may be wrong about this i do recall the playground in wallace grove was available for playing in but may be wrong in this
would make an interesting post this unless there are posts elsewhere? perhaps someone could point me in the right direction to previous posts about shields road school?

[debbiejallan]

There were one or two in Mosspark Primary school. I used to jump on a certain bit of the playground and it sounded hollow. My mum was in it as a youngster during the war. She said her knees used to knock together she was so scared.

[RDR]

There's an old Anderson Shelter in a garden of a house, in a scheme in North Motherwell.
Passed it today, and it's in good condition.
The owner uses it as a garden store.