Glasgow Vet College

[RDR]

I've done a search and can't find anything on this topic, so thought I would ask the following question to see if any HG contributor can help.
Prior to 1949 and it's incorporation into Glasgow University, the Vets College, was an independent institution. (Where James Herriot of various vets books trained).
Obviously the vet college is now located within the University's Garscube estate, but does anyone have any idea when the building in Buccleuth Street closed and was demolished? (originally it was a corporation pumping station)
When I worked up in Garnethill in 75/76 I think that building was still there albiet in a derelict condition, or is my memory playing tricks on me?
Are there any books on the history of the vets college in Glasgow?

[Bridie]

Now that's a coincidence I was just looking up Buccleuch St for someone who used to live there about thirty years ago.
I was a Garnethill girl and we would walk by the Vet School on a daily basis to go to the out- buildings at the Glasgow Girls High just a block away from the Vet School. They used to keep the old aluminium dustbins outside the entrance to the College and we used to say that the carcasses of dead animals were in the bins after dubious experiments.

Ok rambling over here's the site of the old Vet School now, of course, a block of flats.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Buccleu ... 2,180,,0,0

[RDR]

Now that's a coincidence I was just looking up Buccleuch St for someone who used to live there about thirty years ago.
I was a Garnethill girl and we would walk by the Vet School on a daily basis to go to the out- buildings at the Glasgow Girls High just a block away from the Vet School. They used to keep the old aluminium dustbins outside the entrance to the College and we used to say that the carcasses of dead animals were in the bins after dubious experiments.

Ok rambling over here's the site of the old Vet School now, of course, a block of flats.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Buccleu ... 2,180,,0,0

When was that Bridie?
Would the building still be there in 75/76?

[Boxer6]

Now that's a coincidence I was just looking up Buccleuch St for someone who used to live there about thirty years ago.
I was a Garnethill girl and we would walk by the Vet School on a daily basis to go to the out- buildings at the Glasgow Girls High just a block away from the Vet School. They used to keep the old aluminium dustbins outside the entrance to the College and we used to say that the carcasses of dead animals were in the bins after dubious experiments.

Ok rambling over here's the site of the old Vet School now, of course, a block of flats.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Buccleu ... 2,180,,0,0

Some of those flats were used some years ago to house folk decanted from Hodge Court in Bracken Street, Possil, while that venerable building was demolished and replaced with ....... flats! Owned still by Link Housing, I think.

[Bridie]

When was that Bridie?
Would the building still be there in 75/76?

I left school in 73 - I think the old building would have been there a long while after that.
Have you got any pics of the old building?

[RDR]

When was that Bridie?
Would the building still be there in 75/76?

I left school in 73 - I think the old building would have been there a long while after that.
Have you got any pics of the old building?

Not that I can find, other than one in one of the biographies of Alf Wight (James Herriot).

[Bridie]

Found some ahh memories



the old wall still there as seen on that google map of present day.

more in here;

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/21 ... t+stables/

[Vinny the Mackem]

Good old Alf/James. Mackem lad too and a longstanding season ticket holder at Roker Park!

[Bridie]

Good old Alf/James. Mackem lad too and a longstanding season ticket holder at Roker Park!

Did he live in Queen Victoria Drive?

[RDR]

Found some ahh memories



the old wall still there as seen on that google map of present day.

more in here;

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/21 ... t+stables/

Excellent Bridie, thanks very much and as I remember it.
It obviously hadn't been demolished in 75/76 since I remember seeing it.

[RDR]

Good old Alf/James. Mackem lad too and a longstanding season ticket holder at Roker Park!

He ended up as Honorary President of Sunderland and I think there is a room or plaque, named after him in the new stadium also.

The Library in the new Vet School in Garscube was also named after him.

[Vinny the Mackem]

Indeed he did. Made life president in 1991. Think I've got a coulpe of old programmes somewhere that shows that. I'll try to find and scan!

There is the James Herriot Suite at the Stadium of Light, which is nearly £4k for a season ticket, or £210 per match!

I'm happy in the south west corner, to be honest!

http://www.safc.com/page/MatchdayHospitalityDetail/0,,10281~1698884,00.html

[Bridie]

Someone told me years ago that he lived around here on Queen Victoria Drive

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Queen+V ... 2,270,,0,0

What year did he leave Glasgow?

[RDR]

Someone told me years ago that he lived around here on Queen Victoria Drive

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Queen+V ... 2,270,,0,0

What year did he leave Glasgow?

I think it might have been 39 and he intially went to Sunderland to work, the town where he had been born.
It was 6 months after that he went to Thirsk and the rest is history........

[RDR]

Indeed he did. Made life president in 1991. Think I've got a coulpe of old programmes somewhere that shows that. I'll try to find and scan!

There is the James Herriot Suite at the Stadium of Light, which is nearly £4k for a season ticket, or £210 per match!

I'm happy in the south west corner, to be honest!

http://www.safc.com/page/MatchdayHospitalityDetail/0,,10281~1698884,00.html

Very nice it looks to, Vinny, but I can't help thinking any James Herriot experience should involve small animals!