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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:17 pm
by viceroy
That may well have been proposed but I can assure you that the Bell's Bridge has never been moved. It is still in its original position.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:34 pm
by HollowHorn
red_kola wrote:The "Squinty Bridge"


Brilliant :!: ::):

PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:48 pm
by Apollo
viceroy wrote:That may well have been proposed but I can assure you that the Bell's Bridge has never been moved. It is still in its original position.

Thank goodness for a defintive, confident and commited answer :D

I know I don't frequent the place as much as I used to, but the thought of missing something as big as that after waiting for years :roll:

Ranks along there with not noticing it had moved as well, if it had that is.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:57 pm
by james73
viceroy wrote:That may well have been proposed but I can assure you that the Bell's Bridge has never been moved. It is still in its original position.

I recall proposals to move it, but I agree - I don't think it ever was moved
at all.



James H

PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:36 am
by gap74
I'd say I was only 50% sure that I remember it actually being moved, I may just have read about the proposal to move it at the time and presumed it had happened!

If they did move it, it would seem a shame that they didn't take the opportunity to coat the surface of it in something other than what feels like Teflon....

Gary

PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:49 am
by McShad
Nah, its never been moved.... I always remember the doublebacking path at the plantation side.

You know... I don't recall starting this discussion off as a thread but a comment on the thread about the garden festival.... a thread I can no longer locate

PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:15 am
by Fossil

PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:46 am
by Apollo
Not Bell's, but a bridge.

The "Pride of the Clyde" waterbus which sails from the centre of Glasgow downriver to the Braehead Shopping Centre near Renfrew, has closed down, while the new bridge across the river is built at Finnieston. The family-run business will survive, however, due to compensation for loss of trade. It will be able to resume its popular service in April next year, although it is still available for private charters by setting off further downstream. The ferry has been operating since 2001, using a launch which was previously employed on the canals of Amsterdam.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:47 am
by McShad
How is this for a thought... perhaps they are using the land at princes dock to build parts of the bridge then to ship them round to the site?

The same barge that was at the dock is now moored at the bridge site

PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:55 am
by Apollo
Came across this news item from around mid-2004:
The move by BBC Scotland to a "media village" on the south bank of the river Clyde in Glasgow and the regeneration of a surrounding derelict area which would create thousands of jobs has been delayed by six months as a result of court action by one man. William Smith claims that the construction of the £10 million "squinty" bridge (it is to be built diagonally across the river) will allow the river above the bridge to silt up, potentially causing floods which would threaten his home in Kinning Park. It took six months to get a hearing of the case at the Court of Session in Edinburgh but now the judges have put off giving a ruling for another six months.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:55 am
by McShad
I wonder if anyone has a picture of the old dredger... I remember watching it work when I was young and I also remember it on Taggart dredging up a body

PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:06 am
by Mori

PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:30 pm
by McShad
Thats the one.... where is she now I wonder

PostPosted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:59 pm
by Apollo
No luck on the above dredger, but I did find the St. Mungo, a Water Witch which is collecting 300 tonnes of rubbish out of the Clyde in a year, uncluding a dead cow:

http://www.waterwitch.com/cases/glasgow.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3097130.stm

And, 2 smaller boats added:

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/ ... terSafety/

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:29 pm
by retired tiger
What about some pics of when it got jammed closed when the flood water of 1994 coming across the SECC car park loosened the stonework at the edge of the river. If my recollection is correct it was from the River Kelvin which overflowed at Gibson Street and the water followed the old railway line tunnel to Finnieston Station and then over the car park. I'm trying to search for some, but no joy so far.