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[RDR]

And if it's old style Artex, there is a chance that it will contain substantial asbestos...

Very true but mind you there is a risk of that if you drill into any old plaster and lath tenement walls.

[Bridie]

Canning Place 1962 - where is it and what's there now?

[viceroy]

It was off Cathedral Street. Long gone. What's there now is the University of Strathclyde. The building at the end of the terrace was Canning Place School.

[HollowHorn]

Townhead I think, Bridie.

[Guacho]

Roughly where the former Alan Glens is now.

[Bridie]

Thanks All
Reason I asked was a follow on from the thread " Lion Chambers" and the discussion about concrete buildings in the town, I started to read about the Carswells and their pioneering use of cast iron and steel for buildings.
http://www.scotcities.com/warehouses.htm
One of the Carswell brothers lived in Canning Place, described as large terraced houses built by the brothers;
http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/ca ... ompany.htm

The ones in the Mitchell pic,taken prior to demolition,look like those described.

Maybe it's just me but I would have thought that he would have lived in something a bit grander than that.

[Josef]

Maybe it's just me but I would have thought that he would have lived in something a bit grander than that.

That looks like a single row of townhouses to me.

They may not be grand in that end-of-life snap, but I can see that they might well have been.

[Bridie]

Maybe it's just me but I would have thought that he would have lived in something a bit grander than that.

That looks like a single row of townhouses to me.

They may not be grand in that end-of-life snap, but I can see that they might well have been.

I suppose I was thinking in comparison to bay windowed ones. A bay window maketh a house
I'd like to see a pic of those terraced town houses in their splendour. Were there many of that particular design around the town - I wonder?

[cell]

Old map of Canning place with google maps, thanks to LP (how do you do that clicky link thing?) Use the slider at the top to see what is there now.
http://geo.nls.uk/search/mosaic/#zoom=18&lat=55.86357&lon=-4.24296&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[Bridie]

Old map of Canning place with google maps, thanks to LP (how do you do that clicky link thing?) Use the slider at the top to see what is there now.
http://geo.nls.uk/search/mosaic/#zoom=18&lat=55.86357&lon=-4.24296&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

well impressed with that! thanks cell

[HollowHorn]

WOW!

[Josef]

Old map of Canning place with google maps, thanks to LP (how do you do that clicky link thing?) Use the slider at the top to see what is there now.
http://geo.nls.uk/search/mosaic/#zoom=18&lat=55.86357&lon=-4.24296&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

well impressed with that! thanks cell

Indeed. Ta, cell. And LP.


(try using the quote button on LP's post to see how its done, cell, btw)

[Bridie]

It's amazing,poignant and sad that an open field could have originally been a row of busy streets with houses full of people getting on with their lives.

[Josef]

It's amazing,poignant and sad that an open field could have originally been a row of busy streets with houses full of people getting on with their lives.

And, having just returned from several days in a rather lovely rural area, vice-versa.

[Bridie]

It's amazing,poignant and sad that an open field could have originally been a row of busy streets with houses full of people getting on with their lives.

And, having just returned from several days in a rather lovely rural area, vice-versa.

True
however on a personal note, I'm the townie stranded in the country - it's all right for a weekend - drives you nuts for longer