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Re: Drumchapel

Postby The_Clincher » Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:42 pm

Fantastic, Robert :P
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby glasgowken » Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:42 pm

Superb :D I bet those last two were taken by bus enthusiasts. See, we have our uses ::):
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby BadBoyBear » Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:04 pm

Cool pics anyone got any of tallent terrace (no sure of spelling aint ma strong point) as my Dad lived there back in the early sixties. As my dad said it was mainly fields when he lived there as a young boy.
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby robertpool » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:29 pm

Arndale / Drumchapel Shopping Centre Businesses in 1971

I was thinking about the shop names and buildings in and around The Drumchapel Shopping Centre or The Arndale Shopping Centre as it was originally known as, and tried to remember it from 1971, as that was the year l left school and started work and happens to be the year that the reference book l bought was printed. It lists every street in Glasgow and shows the householders name and address number, which helped me remember who my neighbours were in 1971. It also lists every business in Glasgow, not just Drumchapel. I came up with these shops and related buildings including their address numbers. Hope this jogs your memory, l know it jogged mine as half of them l had forgotten about.
Kinfauns Drive:
D. Whitfield, service station
51 Gowans Ltd, bakers
59 A. F .Reid & Sons Ltd, bakers
61 F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd, departmental store
63 John Menzies & Co Ltd, booksellers
65 Boots the Chemists
67 Cooper & Co Stores Ltd, grocer
71 Munro Cleaners Ltd, Laundrette and drycleaners
73 Birrell Ltd, confectioners
75 S. Docherty, butchers
77 Sperber’s, drapers
79 Malcolm Campbell Ltd, fruiters
81 B. A. Reith Ophthalmic Optician
83 City Bakeries Ltd
85 British Linen Bank
Dunkenny Square:
50 D & S Crawford Ltd, bakers
48 Scottish Gas Board
24 Andrew Cochrane Ltd, grocer
20 True-Form Boot Co Ltd, boot & shoe dealers
16 James Grant & Co (West) Ltd, house furnishers
10 Gordons (Tandem Shoes Ltd), boot and shoe dealers
4 Radio Rentals Television Rentals Ltd
4a Kay’s, hairdressers
4c Drumchapel Discount Stores
2 D. Sawyers, fruiters
5 Clydebank Co-op Society Ltd
9 Clydebank Co-op Society Ltd
21 House of Clydesdale Ltd, house furnishers
25 Norport, fishmongers
27 Clydebank Co-op Society Ltd
29 G. D. Boddie (Chemist) Ltd
31 D. McKellar & Sons Ltd, butchers
33 Bowie-Castlebank, laundrette and dry cleaners
37 British Relay Ltd, television rental company
39 Crown Wallpapers, wallpaper dealers
41 Malone Shoe Repair Service Ltd,
43 Gall & Co (Cash Drapers) Ltd, draper
45 British Bata Shoe C Ltd, boot and shoe dealer
47 Kyle Paints Ltd, household paints
49 Ure Food Store, grocer
49 Bairds, departmental store
The public underground toilet was located at the bottom of Dunkenny Square between Clydebank Co-op and D. Sawyers, fruiters
Hecla Ave:
73 Glasgow Corporation (Housing Management Dept, Rent Office)
65 Drumchapel District Library
9 to 15 The Butty Bar
5 Savings Bank of Glasgow
Hecla Place
Post Office and Sorting Office
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby Doorstop » Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:23 am

I was in the Drum this very morning for the first time in a wee while and was surprised to see the vast majority of Hecla Square .. Image .. nuked.

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Big changes from the days of the fountain and Frasers.

I hope the new development breathes some life into a long dead victim of social engineering. :(
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby glasgowken » Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:10 pm

Have to go for a look before it all goes. I must admit a tinge of sadness when I saw those pics.
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby Targer » Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:08 pm

Excellent photographs Doorstop but its just another example of poor architecture and poor material selection (I guess the materials are also the cheapest available).?
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby caz » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:39 pm

I left Drumchapel in 1981, I lived in Katewell ave, my Grandparents live in Lillyburn Place, might take a wee run up this weekend for a wee look, think the last time i did that was about ten years ago, great pictures
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby tombro » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:45 am

Just finished looking at some Drumchapel pages and pictures and loved it.

I lived at 17 Airgold Drive from 1955 to 1960 with my Mum and Dad (Joe and Peggy Brown) and older brother Joe. Went to St Sixtus School, starting off at an annexe in Ledmore Drive, moving to the 'big school' on Kinfauns Drive and then back to another annexe on Airgold Drive, opposite Camus Place.

Emigrated to Australia at the end of 1960 and love it here but the Internet has allowed me to return to my roots and bring back long lost memories.

Great Work, especially the pictures !

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Re: Drumchapel fao The Clincher

Postby neilo » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:03 pm

Slightly off topic mate, recently watched the Just Another Saturday DVD, was wondering if you'd be able to shed some light on some of the other locations in the film! Was particularily interested in the scenes when the band left kelvingrove park on the march home! A great shot of an old church and blackened tenements, it looked as if it was possibly finneston but i had trouble placing anywhere! Thought I could make out a street sign that said West XXXXX Green Street. As the march continues they pass Chancelot Mill (?)on their way to the "Fenian Alley" (apologies for the crude language)...as the marchers prepare to walk down there you can see some high flats in the backgound but once agin couldn't place them, thought maybe Govan, the flats looked like the 3 tower blocks behind Ibrox Stadium!

John, the central character, is on a bus near the beginning as he travels to meet up with his band mates, the bus passes rows of granite tenements..any ideas where that was???

I'm very demanding, aren't I !!!
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated,

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Re: Drumchapel

Postby onyirtodd » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:19 pm

West Bowling Green Street. Seemingly some of the filming was done in Edinburgh.
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby neilo » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:46 pm

That's it, west bowling green street!! Cheers for that...are the rest of the scenes actually shot in edinburgh then? Is Chanelot Mill Edinburgh?

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Re: Drumchapel

Postby onyirtodd » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:49 pm

neilo wrote:That's it, west bowling green street!! Cheers for that...are the rest of the scenes actually shot in edinburgh then? Is Chanelot Mill Edinburgh?

thanks


Scenes were filmed in both cities (and elsewhere?) There was something of a stooshie in Embra at the time about parts of the city being depicted as Glasgow slums.

Chancelot Mill, Western Harbour, Leith Docks, Edinburgh, EH6 6PQ. That's at the Newhaven end.
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby neilo » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:04 pm

onyirtodd wrote:
neilo wrote:That's it, west bowling green street!! Cheers for that...are the rest of the scenes actually shot in edinburgh then? Is Chanelot Mill Edinburgh?

thanks


Scenes were filmed in both cities (and elsewhere?) There was something of a stooshie in Embra at the time about parts of the city being depicted as Glasgow slums.

Chancelot Mill, Western Harbour, Leith Docks, Edinburgh, EH6 6PQ. That's at the Newhaven end.



Thanks, that's great to find out... must admit I'm always a bit disappointed when they use other cities for filming instead of the one the story is set in!! Trainspotting used glasgow in bits, films set in belfast tend to be filmed elsewhere etc...

That other scene i mentioned was probably edinburgh aswell as the tenements didn't really look like glasgow!!

Thanks a lot. neil
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Re: Drumchapel

Postby Doorstop » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:55 am

I've been making discreet enquiries about what exactly is happening to the development at Drumchapel shopping centre .. so far I've been able to glean one or two quite interesting facts.

The Hecla development is basically a redevelopment of the old shopping centre into a new 'mini-mall' style environment. How true this is I can't quantify.

One fact I can verify however is the main supermarket for Drumchapel, Somerfield, is to be razed to the ground and replaced with a .. you guessed it .. TESCO.

Those buggers get everywhere.
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