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Strange Bin Shed Dome
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Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:42 pmby Sharon
I'm assuming it hasn't always been a bin shed...but what would it have been originally??
Its not transparent / translucent...so probaly wouldn't have been a greenhouse....
Posted:
Sat Apr 24, 2004 5:18 pmby The_Clincher
Is that the one near Derby Street? I've seen that before and wondered what it is.....a "fancy midden"...:)
Posted:
Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:27 amby Sharon
Yes, its just on Gray Steet, which is the cobbled one next to the park.
It mustv had a purpose though!!
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Sun Apr 25, 2004 1:49 pmby Ronnie
I'm wondering if it's been a large tenement upgrade project, and some junior member of the architectural team (just out of art school) has been allowed to design the bin shed. Just a thought.
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Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:03 pmby crusty_bint
Valid point Ronnie, tis a smidge "over-thought" if you know what I mean?
Looks as though it could have been re-cycled from the Garden Festival?
...pure speculation though
Posted:
Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:01 pmby Sharon
Its actually only recently i've seen it opened up with bins in it. So Im not sure itrs not just recently been adopted as a bin shed. I should really take a closer inspection.
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Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:38 pmby red_kola
Sharon wrote:Its actually only recently i've seen it opened up with bins in it. So Im not sure itrs not just recently been adopted as a bin shed. I should really take a closer inspection.
Used to live on Bentinck Street c.1992. They were bin shelters then. They (used to) hold large (6 foot tall metal bins on wheels) which were picked up by a special type of bin lorry.
I always presumed it was an early (60s? 70s?) attempt to sort of the midden problem in studenty parts of town. Early wheelie bins in special large bin stores which could hold lots of bulk refuse as well. They could do with these in Woodlands right now!
Posted:
Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:29 amby caine
its always been a bin shelter, well, at least for the past 15 years. i think the council were trying something er.... "different".
Posted:
Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:14 amby Sharon
Theres another slightly unusual one at the other end of that lane too... more of a corrugated pagoda of an affair though... but still a bit different frm the norm...
I'm both disappointed and impressed that the dome could be a bin shed...
hmmmm.... starts to provide ideas for what they could use the BIG dome for (the london one) instead of landfill.... well...maybe not...
Posted:
Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:47 amby duncan
the wee dome reminds me of the cafe near the summit of Cairngorm - specially shaped to withstand lots of snow piling up on it.
the millenium dome, if they turned it over it would make a huge reflector dish:
Posted:
Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:23 pmby red_kola
One of two domed dustbins which were installed at the rear of Gray Street, Kelvingrove, 1975. The bins cost £4000 each, are made of glass fibre and measure 14ft by 25ft
Posted:
Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:28 pmby glasgowken
Amazing find
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Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:12 pmby little lane
Wow, I've always wondered what they were!
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Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:20 pmby Dexter St. Clair
Its actually only recently i've seen it opened up with bins in it. So Im not sure itrs not just recently been adopted as a bin shed. I should really take a closer inspection.
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It's just an excuse to go bin raking. Let's hope it's a lucky middenm for you.
Posted:
Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:34 pmby crusty_bint
Nice find RK
