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The lyceum is undergoing an Art project elaboratiing the buildings history over the next 3 days.

Hi all, I'm a newbie so go easy on me.

I worked in Govan Shipbuilders which is just down the road from the Lyceum up until 1987. Now and then we held mass meetings here which were always very entertaining. I remember the place had a slightly damp foostie smell which was quickly overcome by the thick blue fog from several hundred workers puffing away whilst the business in hand was discussed.
One colorful character, a steelworker nicknamed 'the talking horse' always made a point of speaking at these meetings generally giving the shop stewards a right hard time to the delight of his workmates who I'm sure wound this guy up into a frenzy. Pretty sure the Lyceum was a bingo hall at this time.

The Talking Horse .. now there was a character. I remember his tirades well.

Mori wrote:Facebook Page up and running folks, please give your input.

I really enjoy getting updates on there from Lyceum Govan, a very informative page.

Hi Minxy, so this is where your hiding, nice to see you
hope your OK
Bye for now, norrie

Completed today.

norman mcnamee wrote:Hi Minxy, so this is where your hiding, nice to see you
hope your OK
Bye for now, norrie

Hello Norrie, nice to see you about in the web, hope you are keeping well, and out and about taking the great pics of Glasgow

Mori wrote:Completed today.

Thats just superb, I'll need to take a photo of that at the weekend, and get it printed for my mum.

Hi Mori, thats great, pity they cant open the cinema again for films

Bye for now, norrie

Hi Minxie, yes I am still taking photos but most of Glasgow has been done, but I am still fining buildings that I knew nothing of, check them out on Pals

Bye for now, norrie

norman mcnamee wrote:Hi Mori, thats great, pity they cant open the cinema again for films

Bye for now, norrie

The aim is reopen the 500 seat balcony Norie... watch this space in time to come.

wee video of the project over the last few days.

HiMori, great stuff, I will need to get down to Govan for a few still shots for my cinema and Govan collection
Great news about the cinema hope it takes off
Not too many Suburban cinemas left
I was lucky enough to get access to take photos of the reopened Cinema in Leven last year, as step back in time to the old time cinemas

norman mcnamee wrote:Not too many Suburban cinemas left

Grosvenor, Springfield Quay, The Forge and and Imax.

Hi Dexter St Clair, the only one of those cinemas I count as suburban, is the Grovsenor, really I was talking of the stand alone cinemas, not the multi plexes, how many of the old cinemas have been demolished and can never reopen
Having said that anything is better than nothing

Dexter St. Clair wrote:

norman mcnamee wrote:Not too many Suburban cinemas left

Grosvenor, Springfield Quay, The Forge and and Imax.

If any of the four of them are suburban, urban Glasgow must have shrunk to the size of a walnut.

No reference to other websites remotely intended in that comment, btw