WANTED!! Ideas for new projects....

[albaforever]

This may have been suggested or be a combination of previous ideas. What about a section devoted to Glasgow dance halls with pictures uploaded as you were then (no recent photos for privacy reasons) so as to easily identify past friends. Could include public and private dance halls/clubs. This was a past time enjoyed by most Glaswegians. People could use either first names or nicknames and include a small synopis of where and what they were then and where they are now.

[Josef]

This may have been suggested or be a combination of previous ideas. What about a section devoted to Glasgow dance halls with pictures uploaded as you were then (no recent photos for privacy reasons) so as to easily identify past friends. Could include public and private dance halls/clubs. This was a past time enjoyed by most Glaswegians. People could use either first names or nicknames and include a small synopis of where and what they were then and where they are now.

The Glasgow dance halls thing is a great idea, alba. If you have any photos in that line then that would be excellent, and you are more than welcome to start a thread with them.

The people thing though... it tends to get bogged down in 'McGlumpher Street - anyone remember wee Jeanie MacKay from number 52?', which is good if you're one of the three people who do, but off-putting for everyone else. There're a number of other sites that are much better at that than HG is, to be honest.

[Dexter St. Clair]

The people thing though... it tends to get bogged down in 'McGlumpher Street - anyone remember wee Jeanie MacKay from number 52?', which is good if you're one of the three people who do, but off-putting for everyone else. There're a number of other sites that are much better at that than HG is, to be honest.

Glasgow Guide

[tenaciousd1971]

Hi,

As this is my first post, hello to everybody.

A quick introduction of myself: I work as a self-employed environmental consultant and as such do desktop studies for large planning organizations and architects, which involves among other things, researching the history of sites which are earmarked for development / redevelopment. This research is carried out mostly at the Mitchell Library Map Room, inspecting and interpreting detailed Ordnance Survey National Grid and maps, and sometimes the occasional trip through to the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Most of the sites are in urban settings (Brownfield) and as such have a legacy of contamination issues from mostly arising from industries such as 'coal mining', 'iron works', 'brick works', 'gas works', etc...

Getting to the point of the topic, If you would like to know the history of where you or a friend / family live, or where you once lived, then drop a line to strategic.environmental.gazetteer@ntlworld.com indicating a place name and / or postcode and I shall endeavor to provide a textual history of the area in question.

regards.

TD71

[rabmania]

Hi,

As this is my first post, hello to everybody.

A quick introduction of myself: I work as a self-employed environmental consultant and as such do desktop studies for large planning organizations and architects, which involves among other things, researching the history of sites which are earmarked for development / redevelopment. This research is carried out mostly at the Mitchell Library Map Room, inspecting and interpreting detailed Ordnance Survey National Grid and maps, and sometimes the occasional trip through to the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. Most of the sites are in urban settings (Brownfield) and as such have a legacy of contamination issues from mostly arising from industries such as 'coal mining', 'iron works', 'brick works', 'gas works', etc...

Getting to the point of the topic, If you would like to know the history of where you or a friend / family live, or where you once lived, then drop a line to strategic.environmental.gazetteer@ntlworld.com indicating a place name and / or postcode and I shall endeavor to provide a textual history of the area in question.

regards.

TD71

If at first you don't succeed...

[dokk]

Hi I was just surfing/researching & I noticed you were discussing the Atlantic Mills in Bridgeton....I have a personal Diary from 1853 & I believe it belonged to one of the Anderson Brothers who owned the mill,,it is volume 2 and has about 117 pages of his expoits in America..a lot of the words I can't make out but I can't find any info other than the "Glasgow Story" info(which is more or less nothing!!)...if you can give me any other info I would be grateful...during the next week I will visit the Bridgeton Library & see if they have any info...it,s a fascinating read

[HollowHorn]

So, how long do you think it will take you to get it all scanned & posted?

[dokk]

Dunno! Don't have a scanner! & wouldn't know what to do with it if I had one...but I'll think of something

[HollowHorn]

Dokk, if you mean the one in Walkinshaw St. There are 13 photos here:

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/17 ... al_images/

[dokk]

It's nice to see actual pics of it...was once the largest in Bridgeton area...700 Looms!..thanx for the pics.

[thelonerover]

I've had a search round the forums and haven't seen anything, but has anyone ever tried photographing all the old postcode signs around Glasgow? There's an SW1 sign on the corner of my building (photo to come as soon as I get new batteries!).

I think that sign was the border of SW1 when the original codes were introduced in the 1920s, as Helen St Police Station (the next surviving building down the road - the ones in the park are G41) is G52 and the houses between here and there were built in the late 30s, and destroyed last year.

I don't remember ever seeing any others, but thought that would make the hunt more entertaining!



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[Reuben Curteis]

Here's a project that may interest anyone in the area of the Govan or Whiteinch.

Several Glasgow School of Art students have been down beneath the water of the Clyde over the past week installing a project that celebrates the Clyde tunnel's pedestrian and cycle routes, which remain dry thanks to the engineering feat of the construction. The theme is sub-aquatic and hopefully people will find 'enchantment under the river'.

Think it sounds fishy? Go and see the project for yourself and be immersed in it. The installation is situated roughly 100 meters within the North side of the tunnel and will be placed there indefinitely, but check it out soon, before the currents sweep it away.

[rabmania]

I wonder if the neds have already been...

[Doorstop]

The tunnel's controlled entry and fully camera laden now, isn't it?

[Josef]

Is it? I'll need to go and have a look sometime soon.

Anyone seen all the paper mobiles and stuff in the pedestrian underpass at Cowcaddens Station, btw? Not the expensively-refurbed-and-regularly-vandalised one, the one on the other side of the station.