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cjroarty wrote:It is a really nice building.
I doubt the sisters will be making it over to the Welfare club though
C
cjroarty wrote:My wife's aunt lived there - the nuns have moved to a convent in Kirkintilloch now - and before they left we were given a tour of the building.
There were modifications made but none of them were particularly destructive so I reckon the flats will be pretty special when they come on the market.
Don't know much about the history of the building but I can do some digging around and see what I can pick up.
My only annoyance is that my picture taking abilities are so poor and the house was very dark so there weren't many pictures that were of much use.
Ciaran
Des wrote: Thanks for that, the pictures are good and the stained glass is quite amazing. Would seem that the modifications were very slight and mostly the placing of false walls rather than destroying original features. Apparently as the builders have taken down the plasterboard they have found more and more interesting and sometimes bizarre original features.
onyirtodd wrote:Wall mounted didlos? St Andrew's Cross whipping frames?
Jazza wrote:onyirtodd wrote:Wall mounted didlos? St Andrew's Cross whipping frames?
Straight to hell for you mr.
damnonii wrote:I've never seen that building before, I'd love to take a look inside.
Had a go at looking through the newspaper archives for you. Interestingly there's no obituary for Alexander that I can find, which is quite strange given his prominence, so maybe you could be right about suicide. I can tell you he was alive in April 1880 though when he sponsored the nomination of a candidate for Renfrewshire in an election. More importantly I did find an account of the marriage of his eledest daughter Helen on 16th Sep 1891. Her brother gave her away, 3 of her sisters were bridesmaids and the reception was held at Rawcliffe which was still in the possession of her mother at that time. So the house wasn't standing empty until 1919.
http://www.filehost.org.uk/download.php?file=712Helen%20Bannatyne%20Stewart%20marriage.pdf
(middle of the paper, near the bottom. It's the first marriage under the heading 'Local Marriages', I have no idea why its in a Liverpool paper)
onyirtodd wrote:Wall mounted didlos? St Andrew's Cross whipping frames?
Des wrote:ramor69 wrote:Sorry to sound like a sceptic, but am I the only one who seems to think that a lot of these
"1st time posters" are only here to take what they can from this place, rather than putting
anything in.
mark mc daid wrote:re all of this
house at langside by honeyman and keppie?whom c r mackintosh joined
son ninian bannatyne commisioned dunloe house wemyss bay also-died in 1912 leaving 507k in cash also several properties(equivalent to 29 millioon in todays money)
dont think ive seen anything suggesting suicide-family were not all catholic-stained glass was carmalite later installed,one family member became jesuit priest while others were episcopalian,family had long term fued stemming from fathers second marriage tomargaret bannatyne,second run of kids ensued and the rest is history.
cheers
mark
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