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This may seem an obvious question and using Google Earth's tracking path I am ninety percent sure but are the tenements in the left horizon at the Sandaig Road and Hallhill Road junction in Garthamlock? If that is the case then is the grassy to the bottom left of the far right tenement where the Croftspar estate built?
InkMan wrote:
Looking behind the bus you can see two large chimneys. The white structure in the foreground is Lightburn Hospital but what is the second chimney to the right of that in the distance?
What would the red structure in the central reservation at the junction of Edinburgh Road and Carntyne Road have been?
Shuggy
InkMan wrote:Thanks for all the replies and tickey's explanation makes perfect sense considering the 1975 implementation of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 saw the are transfer from the county of Lanark to Glasgow Ciry Council authority.
The black roofed tenements that I mentioned upon further inspection (as this was really pissing me off) must be those bordered by Larchgrove Road, Larchgrove Avenue and Barlanark Road. Should have picked that up earlier I suppose.
I find that here is something incredibly sad about this photograph. On the horizon there we have an estate that, like so many other areas populated by the (often necessary) housing clearances that lasted less than a lifetime. Similar to theses clearances which were still ongoing when this picture was taken the people in this estate were (in some cases once again) moved arbitrarily without much consideration of keeping families, friends or societies close. When you take into consideration the loss of the industry highlighted by the Barrachnie Brickworks and Pit then the lack of anything remotely resembling a replacement then it is no wonder that the area pictured - at times - continues to suffer from a poverty of wealth, education, health, confidence, aspiration, sustainable employment opportunities, social cohesion, amenities, affordable transport links, a society that looks down their nose at the mention of the east of Glasgow (an attitude that is prevalent in many in this City never mind the life-long Conservatives in Tory heartlands - who needs enemies with friends like that - and errrrrrr the chance of a quick pint in either the Dalriada or Stepps/Pheonix Bar ( ::): ).
This is something that could be said about many Glasgow panoramas from 1966 but (a) I know the area well, (b) the image of the new housing stock rising above the centre horizon is very moving and (c) I read only recently the usual "well the health and low life expectancy issues which are amongst the worse in Europe are simply linked to a dependency on alcohol or drugs" which is strange as I have never taken the same attitude from articles concerning any other area because if they were then it would be rightly called bigoted, racist or inappropriate.
Sorry for my rant
Shuggy
scaryman2u wrote:The red structure on Edinburgh Rd looks like a police box and if memory serves me right the Dalriada was a 7 bed roomed hotel-come pub.
Glesga_Steve wrote:Re the photo from the first link, if you look at the group of trees near the bottom of Cranhill Park you'll see two small structures amidst them.
Does anyone know what the purpose of these structures was? Gold star to the first person with the correct answer.
PS I'll be very impressed if any of you know.
Glesga_Steve wrote:Re the photo from the first link, if you look at the group of trees near the bottom of Cranhill Park you'll see two small structures amidst them.
Does anyone know what the purpose of these structures was? Gold star to the first person with the correct answer.
PS I'll be very impressed if any of you know.
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