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Can you identify this place

Postby thedaveformula » Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:39 am

Hello there this is my favourite picture of me with my gran and my mum in 1988 at the Glasgow Garden Festival, does anyone know where exactly the location of the photo is, can I revisit it today? Thank you

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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby hungryjoe » Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:34 am

Is that the Anderston shopping centre in the background?
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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby Sunflower » Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:43 am

Lovely picture.

I think it's the Skypark building in the background (on the right) - before its recent-ish glass cladding makeover. (See my post halfway down here).

With the university tower on the left it looks as though the picture was taken close to the south end of the Finnieston bridge. I thought the crane would have to be in the picture too, but looking at the map, maybe not. So yes, you can visit the spot, the railings are pretty much the same...
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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby The Egg Man » Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:15 am

The low building on the left looks like the SMT/ Vauxhall building at the foot of Finniestion Street.

The building on the extreme left - Betty's Bar?
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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby robertpool » Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:08 pm

the building on the left with the three XXX is the SECC and the building on the right is the now O2 building, it used to have a sign 'Dunlop' running down the side of it. The photo may have been taken close to the South Rotunda
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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby helpmaboab » Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:21 pm

Great pic, and has changed much from then on both sides of the river. The picture I think will have been taken from what is now Mavisbank Gardens, between the Squinty Bridge and The Springfield Quay. The walkway is on accessible via the housing development as the river walkway is unfortunately gated off at either end (long running dispute I beleive between the council and the residents which is covered elsewhere on this site). Although I've wandered in myself in the past for wee a nosey and been OK, so give it a go. :)
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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby busdriver » Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:27 pm

Red Brick buildings on the opposite bank are on Lancefield Quay, where various warehousing and garages used to operate from,
the blimp used to advertise the the Arnold Clark car showroom on Finnieston Street, and the triple x's sign was I am almost certain something to do with the SECC and indicated the route to the train station. I think the photo may have been taken approximately opposite to Elliot Street. (Mavisbank Gardens, South side).
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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby BTJustice » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:54 pm

Should be easy to visit, here are a few pics from close to the location.

Upstream;
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garden festival then and now 8 by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

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garden festival then and now 9 by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

Full set here;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/route9auto ... 086620204/

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quayside bollard 2 then and now (note the bollard markings) by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

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warehouse then and now by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

Set here;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/route9auto ... 522103612/

I think the original picture must have been taken pretty much where the squinty bridge is now.

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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby BTJustice » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:06 pm

Here is another of my pics where you can see the uni tower and SECC sign;

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garden festival11 by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

This looks too far down stream to be the same location so your pic must be upstream of the squinty bridge.
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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby thedaveformula » Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:05 am

Thank you everyone for your help. What puzzles me is that the Finneston Crane isn't in my photo. It's not even as if the crane is just out of sight on the left, there's a good distance to the left of the university steeple where there should be a massive crane.

I've had a look on Google Maps and taken a photo using that of where I think I should be heading if I have read your help correctly. Where the red line is here:

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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby The Egg Man » Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:53 pm

thedaveformula wrote:Thank you everyone for your help. What puzzles me is that the Finneston Crane isn't in my photo. It's not even as if the crane is just out of sight on the left, there's a good distance to the left of the university steeple where there should be a massive crane.

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The angle of the photograph is what's confusing you. The Finniestion Crane is just out of shot to the left. The SMT building on the extreme left of the shot is on the east corner of Finnieston Street and the crane is a good bit further west.
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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby robertpool » Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:41 pm

dif views to compare. Might explain why you cant see the crane

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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby Doorstop » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:58 pm

Here's an odd one .. photo of a photo hanging in the Scotia Bar, no comments on the frame in the bar but I'm sure I've seen this building in my past but am buggered to place it.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby robertpool » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:09 pm

Gorbals?

the flats in the background (Queen Elizabeth Square Flats) look very similar to these. I think the building on the right in your pic might be the St Francis Church and Friary

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Re: Can you identify this place

Postby viceroy » Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:25 pm

These are indeed the Queen Elizabeth Square flats designed by Basil Spence and demolished I think around 20 years ago. But as for the building on the right being St. Francis Church, that doesn't seem quite right to me. My feeling is that it is a building which once stood on the corner of Moffat St. and Ballater St., but what purpose it served, whether ecclesiastical or otherwise, I really couldn't say.
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