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by **tobester** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:16 pm

I got Circles Under The Clyde, after being tipped off about it on ebay from GK

Great read, got slagged rotten in work tho, but i learned a lotta fascinating things about the system.

Cheers GK

by **glasgowken** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:17 pm

Good stuff :-)

, but why were you slagged ?

I'll have to get hold of a copy of Night Song of the Last Tram, keep forgetting.
Btw, the trams on the cover are not Glasgow trams. You'd think they would have made the effort :wink:

by **tobester** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:19 pm

Cos it wasnt a normal book according to them, BUT its pat of what im into now thanks to HG.

Never bothered about glasgow till i joined here

by **glasgowken** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:22 pm

Not a "normal book" blimey :roll:

Throw it at them, it's good and heavy enough to do some damage :wink:

by **tobester** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:24 pm

i cant GK, id damage the book

::):

by **glasgowken** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:28 pm

Throw an ashtray then. Oh wait, you can't smoke in work anymore, damn

Simba wrote:
Socceroo wrote:A book on the Past / Present photo's would do well. I think everyone in Glasgow finds this subject very interesting.

Jack House did something similar in the 1970's which i think was updated in the 1980's. Judging by the amount of impressions / editions noted in the cover of these type of books it would appear they did quite well with sales.

It could be opened up a bit more with better research and narrative on the history of the sites. If i recall correctly some of Jack House's Past / Present books were mainly photo's with little text on the subject.

I've been searching away to see if this book has ever been mentioned, but since nobody has replied to tell you otherwise Socceroo I guess I will!

There is a book called 'Glasgow Then and Now' by Rudolph Kenna and it's essentially a Past Present book. Quite interesting, although a lot of them I've seen before from here I guess. However the book is from 2001 so the idea wasn't nicked from here. I only discovered it because my uncle showed me it the other night - he did a lot of the present photos on it. £9.99 on Amazon.

The 'Glasgow Then and Now' book is fantastic, especially if you can find the earlier editions from the early 1970's.
You could do a 3 way past-present post. I'm sure it was tried on the past-present thread a while back.

by **Schiehallion** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:49 pm

I got "Glasgow from the Air - 75 years of aerial photography" - didn't even know it was out!

by **Pgcc93** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:01 pm

Schiehallion wrote:I got "Glasgow from the Air - 75 years of aerial photography" - didn't even know it was out!

I also got that along with Central to Glasgow, both excellent.

by **John** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:30 pm

Schiehallion wrote:I got "Glasgow from the Air - 75 years of aerial photography" - didn't even know it was out!

I got that too and am just about to settle down and read it.

Life is sweet.

by **John** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:01 pm

A copy of Vanishing Glasgow by Heather Lyall was delivered today courtesy of Amazon at the bargain price of £8.54.

It contains prints from George Washington Wilson, T&R Annan & Sons, Oscar Marxaroli, and others contrasted with photographs of the present day. It was published back in 1991 so even the present day photographs have become "then" instead of "now".

Some of the sections have several photographs of the same or similar scenes covering various eras.

I have just had a quick look through it but the detail looks very impressive.

Get onto Amazon quick and snap up a bargain.

Cheers

J

by **Simba** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:42 pm

I got Images of Scotland - Glasgow West for Xmas (£4.99 in Bookworld apparently) which could be very useful for past presents! They have Glasgow North and Central too.

by **nodrog** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:42 pm

**FREE BOOKS!**

Had a bit of a tidy up of my bookshelves the other day, and and (embarassingly!) found several titles I seem to have duplicate copies of !

Happy to let them go to a good HG home - the first people to PM me or post here saying which book they'd like gets it - free if you can collect from the west end, or for the cost of postage if you can't.

here's what I've got on offer...

Famous Scottish Houses - The Lowlands
Thomas Hannan, Mercat Press (ISBN: 0901824755) - 1980s HB reprint of a 1928 original

Images of Scotland - North Glasgow
Andrew Stuart, Tempus Press (ISBN: 0752415409)

Edinburgh An Illustrated Architectural Guide, 3rd Edition
Charles McKean, RIAS, (ISBN 907364486)

Scotland in the Thirties
Rudolph Kenna, Richard Drew Pub, (ISBN: 0862671892)

by **Simba** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:52 pm

Is the North Glasgow one the same as the West one I was talking about? If so I'd prob be interested - I don't know much of the north part of Glasgow but if it's needing a home then I'm willing!

by **nodrog** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:55 pm

It is the same series as the West one, but I'm afrad Tobster has just beaten you to it!

Images of Scotland - North Glasgow
Scotland in the Thirties

are now taken; still available are:

Famous Scottish Houses - The Lowlands
Edinburgh An Illustrated Architectural Guide, 3rd Edition

Nodrog

by **Simba** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:02 pm

Dammit, and there you could have been the first HG member to meet me as well! :wink:

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