Help! Where is this?

[cumbo]

Like this:

[Smartalex]

Lyons Maid, Twice As Good as Walls.

[scaryman2u]

And just as disgusting Horrible Ice-creams both of them

[McShad]

I can rule out Maryhill Road @ St Georges Cross and North Woodside Road. Tenements are the wrong type with bay windows or a long curve

[Seamey]

Looks like Edinburgh to me *duck*

[weasler]

Defo Glasgow the Garvies of Milngavie Ginger lorry is a dead give away.
I have studied the photo and still cant work out where this is, but would hazard a guess at west end maybe around Partick or Hyndland? also by the looks of the Voting poster i would say it was for the Communist party as they didnt have the money that the Labour party had, and the poster looks far from polished. I agree it looks around 1974, but the voting poster could have been there for at least two years previously, as it looks like the tenement gable end would not be a priority when they finally got round to pulling them down.

Hopefully someone will come up with the answer soon, as this is a real good Glasgow investigation(with all the suspense).

Cheers Weasler.

[ghiribizzo]

Still firming up the 1974 argument, as Ramor69 mentioned the Lyons Maid sign (plus Cumbo's 'later' sign example) the sign change to the 'good times' was in 1973.

"In January 1973 the 'Good Time Sign', as it was officially known, was introduced on all Lord Neilson's ice cream vans replacing the sign which had been used since 1966. Neilson Holdings Ltd, the ice-cream subsidiary of Associated British Foods, had been acquired by Lyons in 1962. In the same year they also acquired Eldorado from the Union International Company. Progressively from this date the Good Time Sign, or the Three Dancing Children as it is more commonly known, was introduced across all of the Lyons Maid products."



Eldorado? No 'that' Eldorado?

[weasler]

Ghiribizzo, Totaly lost to what you mean about the Ice cream sinage and the voting poster, although i do remember the Neilson ice cream vans with much glee, especially in the summer when we would stock up with ice cream and american cream soda, awaiting the bbc2 hammer double bill.

[james73]

Lyons Maid, Twice As Good as Walls. ::):

Why dont you email the picture to the Evening Times Letters page asking if anyone
recognizes it? Someone *will* know it - if they print it...



James H

[ghiribizzo]

Ghiribizzo, Totaly lost to what you mean about the Ice cream sinage and the voting poster.

post edited. was talking pish.

[MacotheIsles]

I'm off to look at my Oscar Mazzaroli pics. Must be in there somewhere...

[AlanM]

I'm not sure if this is way off the mark or not but could it be St George's Rd?

The curve could be right, but I'm not sure when the tenements were demolished.

[Socceroo]

I still think it's part of Cathcart Road.

[duck]

Soccerroo wrote

I still think it's part of Cathcart Road.

me too, I'm so convinced I'm checking Ryanair to get back and have a look!!

[Socceroo]

me too, I'm so convinced I'm checking Ryanair to get back and have a look!!

I actually had a look when i was passing last Friday, i spotted two of the Tenements side by side, step in roof and all identical to the photo. But i did not have the slide / photo posted by Smartalex or my Camera with me.

I've been laid up with a cold that's turned into flu so i have not been out this year. When i'm out and about at the weekend i'll take a photo.