Bridgeton Walk - Saturday 3rd December.

[HollowHorn]

Cessnock Underground at 12? I'm positively orgasmic.

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Seems Lp & I are coming through for a walk, we will be at cessnock for about 12. If we running a tad late will let you know but I am already up bright eyed and bushy tailed.

[HollowHorn]

Excellent!

[Sunflower]

Pollokshields , past the Naval Base

C'mon guys, do tell.......

[Josef]

It was a slight cheat, I have to say.



I give you the Sherbrooke Hotel, which was used as a Naval Radio training base in the Great War.

[Josef]

And just for you, S, a couple of Greek Thomsons from the route.


This one had the most spectacular fungi on a tree stump just in front. Sort of like two pounds of lamb's kidney.



And this one from the very brief period of sunshine and spectacular light, before the Serious Rain kicked in and we sadly had to take refuge in The Tramway and console ourselves with bottles of Fraoch. And try to wake Hollowhorn back up.

[Josef]

This one looked alarmingly, at first sight, as if it gathered rainwater at the top and then funnelled it through... well, this is a family forum. Proved not to be the case on closer inspection, though.




And a case of colour-blindness.

[Vinegar Tom]

It was a slight cheat, I have to say.



I give you the Sherbrooke Hotel, which was used as a Naval Radio training base in the Great War.

A bit of checking proves that my memory was not that accurate to say the least. The then Sherbrooke House was used by The Admiralty during the second world war as a Radar training establishment.

link

Still counts as naval base though..

[Vinegar Tom]

Intriguing signs scattered around Pollokshields


Watch This Space by vinegartom40, on Flickr

web site

Mycophile at work


The Knowe with mycophile by vinegartom40, on Flickr

Would you buy a used sub-station?


Development opportunity with storm clouds by vinegartom40, on Flickr

Imaginatively titled business from Forth Street


Garage Ltd by vinegartom40, on Flickr

[HollowHorn]

Regarding the Mermaid:
See Here

[Sunflower]

It was a slight cheat, I have to say.



I give you the Sherbrooke Hotel, which was used as a Naval Radio training base in the Great War.

A bit of checking proves that my memory was not that accurate to say the least. The then Sherbrooke House was used by The Admiralty during the second world war as a Radar training establishment.

link

Still counts as naval base though..

Well blow me down...

Thanks for the Thomson pics, J, - I can never stop myself thinking the tall one looks like a bad-day-at-the-office job. (I expect they'll drum me out of the Thomson Society if they find out.)

Shame you had to take refuge in the Tramway. Absolutely tragic.

[Lucky Poet]

The forced Tramway visit was most unfortunate, but we had to make the best of it, brave wee soldiers that we are.

I was quite taken with the cottages next to VT's imaginative company name, Viz.:


Odd wee things, brick built, and there are apparently claims that they date from as early as the 1820s, though they aren't on the oldest OS maps, surveyed in 1858. Which isn't to say they weren't there for sure, though there's not even any sign of a track where Forth Street is now. I'd think it's fair to suppose they aren't any older than the brickworks at Port Eglinton, which do appear under that survey. (Why source bricks from miles away, especially for cheap cottages?)

[HollowHorn]

1955:

[Josef]

They shoud've kept the lamppost.

[Vinegar Tom]

They seem to have kept using that type of lamppost for the "Cooncillor" ones?

The 1820's date for the Forth Street cottages was from the booklet "Pollokshields Panorama" , albeit with the caveat "reputedly" which I obviously ignored I can't argue with LP's reasoning on the mapping dates / brickworks.

The Pollokshields Heritage folks have a newsletter with a similar interpretation:

"The two cottages extant in Forth Street
are reputedly even older, (around 1820 has
been suggested) although they are not
found on the early Ordnance Survey maps.
It’s claimed that they were once occupied
by horse-cab hirers; today there is still a
garageworks in the capacious old stable
buildings that adjoin the rear of these brick
cottages.
The area was farmland until after 1843,
when there were brickworks just to the
north."

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