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Sunflower wrote:Owners sold to other owners, now converting the ground floor and basement giant single unit to two separate flats. Allegedly. (Fingers crossed for owner-occupied, not the dreaded multi-occupancy.) (Even sub-divided there'll be dining-sized kitchen, huge lounge, three double beds.) Mega-improvement on the outside anyway
lynnski wrote:As someone who's just moved to this area after a lifetime in the West End .... I'd like to help out with the cleaning up, if the person who's organising could pm me and give me details of the next one, I'll do my best to come along. And hello everybody!
viceroy wrote:My Kitten wrote:IIRC, it was purchased as a privately run Muslim School don't know if that came to fruition tho.
Part of the building was indeed used for a while as a private school for Muslim children. It was called the Iqra Academy I think, or something like that. But they didn't get enough feepaying pupils to turn it into a going concern, also the Schools Inspectorate didn't give them a very good report - their teaching methods were criticised and I believe there was even a suggestion that corporal punishment might have been resorted to. That obviously didn't do their reputation an awful lot of good. The school closed after about 2 years, or maybe even less.
At present the building is empty and boarded up and in a pretty sorry state. The playground at the North Gower St. end is being used as a car wash.
It is far too grand a building to be left to go to seed like this. It is the only building of real architectural interest in the area, apart from the Alexander Thomson tenement in Walmer Crescent. I would think that conversion for residential use would really be the only feasible option for it.
96. Maq RASUL (dob 10/10/53)
Retailing
£20.00m
In 1964, Maq Rasul came to Britain from Pakistan. After graduating from university, he scraped together the money to start a grocery shop in 1977. He later moved in to video rentals and Global, his Scottish-based company, is now expanding into England. In 2003, profits fell sharply to 809,000 on £34m sales. A £10m value on the company is appropriate. Rasul now owns it all - spends £2.3m buying out 3i's 23% stake (thus £10m valuation). Other assets, past dividends (£1.5m in 2001) and tanning operation £10m
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