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| kev |
Pics of Glasgow, early 1980sView of the Kingston bridge from wasteland at the south bank of the river and the Townhead onramp being built
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| Stuball |
Nice pics. A before and after might be possible on both
I find it a little funny that even back when the motorway was that quite, people still sat in the middle lane 
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| james73 |
Re: A couple of pics
That's a great picture as I remember that all being built.  Got any more?
James H |
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| Hugo Drax |
These are brilliant. Thanks for the memory 
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| kev |
A couple moreSorry for only putting on a couple at a time but new to scanning and unfortunatly very busy at work .
George square with 2 way traffic and the clyde walkway where the casino is now |
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| Scary |
Great pics Kev, did you say these are from the 80`s ? | ||||
| kev |
Took them about 83/84.. have got about 16 that I have found so far. will post some tomorrow | ||||
| falseface |
nice one Kev9 | ||||
| Alex Glass |
Great photos Kev
The one of George Square/City Chambers looks like it has GO 1 outside the front door of the Chambers waiting on the Lord Provost. If your year is 1983 then that would have been Michael Kelly. If it was later in 1984 then it would have been Robert Gray. |
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| kev |
Hi Alex been at celtic connections in the central hotel and it was fab
have any of you guys checked out its interior..dont think its changed in a lot of years the bar is from the 50s will post some pics manyana when I sober up cheers |
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| kev |
Just out of bed and as rough as a badgers..anywayview looking down hope street..not much has changed except the buses
Looking down Jamaica street again not much change except the x film cinema is now a music venue 
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| AlanM |
Re: Just out of bed and as rough as a badgers..anyway
You'll find that big grey lump of concrete has been removed. |
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| Scary |
Intercity House in the middle of the pic at the top of Oswald street has been removed too.
I was heading up to get a past / present pic when the snow came on, will try again tomorrow. |
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| kev |
If my memory serves me this is one of the west entrances to the King George 5 dock.. i have a picture of the top of the building on the right of the picture but have yet to find it .. sure it had the points of the compass built into the brickwork.
Sure I took this from the same spot |
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| kev |
Love the plastic seats 
No description reqd |
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| HollowHorn |
These pics and any others you have should really go into the UG Collection. | ||||
| scallopboy |
I remember those plastic seat. Made a fart noise on a wet day if you were wearing jeans 
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| kev |
HH
Wasnt sure where the best place to post when starting would it be worth posting them in there when I find them all .. trying to track a couple I know I have somewhere of Charles Connels shipyard in Scotstoun in a state of dereliction after it was abandoned |
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| glasgowken |
Wonderful photos :) | ||||
| kev |
Exhibition hall still under construction
M8 taken from baird st bridge 
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| Stuball |
Ahh, the old days when it was the orange shed :) | ||||
| james73 |
Great pic. The building beyond the M8 on the upper left is the wonderful old Townhead Library, shamefully demolished around 1999-2000 after being left to rot for years. 
James H |
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| kev |
James .. if Im right the road at the bottom of the pic was the townhead exit for traffic heading east. Can just make out SLOW on the lane. Can you remember where exactly this brought you out to. | ||||
| Stuball |
Takes you to the Royal.... right infront of the Blind Asylum | ||||
| james73 |
Given that the entire area was wiped off the face of the earth, the exact answer to that is difficult. As the Springburn Expressway and the Townhead Interchange were being built the actual exit of that off-ramp would've changed over time. The first pic below is from the late 1960s and the two pics below that are from circa 1984. Originally, it exited onto Kennedy Street, then later onto the partially-built Springburn Expressway. Late 1960s - exit is onto Kennedy Street. 
c.1984 - exit is onto the Springburn Expressway. 
c.1984 - exit is onto the Springburn Expressway and then onto Castle Street, upper left. 
As Stuball says, it now takes you out directly onto Castle Street next to the Blind Asylum, but that section is on a raised flyover. It took them a long time to build all this, as I recall. James H |
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| kev |
First class my man .. will spend hours on these pics as I can roughly remember all this.
Below is a pic my mum unearthed yesterday..as I previously posted my family has tons of stuff taken over the years and we will dig it out over the coming months.. this pic is me on a school trip to Springburn fire station in 1967 the building through the windscreen is the now derelict springburn halls in Millarbank street with the lorry on Keppochhill road at the junction with Springburn road Not sure what church was next to it though 
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| kev |
This is a view of the back courts somewhere in Royston. I must have been installing a TV in a house in the close ..
Duke street at millerston street. All gone .Does the cafe have a story ? 
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| Stuball |
Great picture of Coias... and yes, it has a history :)
It's now located between Hillfoot St and Whitehill St and recently expanded into the vacant units next door. I'm sure there was several Coias cafes around glasgow and Paul Coia was related (a minor tv presenter) http://www.coiascafe.co.uk/Home.html |
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| kev |
Bog standard view of Peoples Palace
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Bridge near Gorbals |
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| james73 |
That's the Copperworks tenements, viewed from Roystonhill. James H |
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| kev |
A couple of views up Hope street
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| neilmc |
Moderators: kev9 has rather modestly named this thread "A Couple of Pics" when they are clearly much more than that. How about a more appropriate title, as these photos are very evocative of the era? | ||||
| HollowHorn |
I do believe that this question is being addressed in real time.  
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| Stuball |
This map might help 
Notice the dotted lines running down the side of Castle Street? Thats the markings of porposed motorway that, thankfully, never happened |
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| Fjord |
*Pedant alert*
Actually that's looking up Oswald Street from the KGV bridge before it reaches Hope Street at the junction of Argyle St. Great view of the Westergate building under construction and the gap site of a former bonded warehouse and church where the NCP carpark is now. The photo's above have so much detail that's often forgotten like the bold advertising for Gordon's Gin and (Teachers?)Scotch Whisky on the Broomielaw building façade that were illuminated at night not to mention the Quarter Gil pub on the corner of Midland Street that survives to this day. Last but not least the SPT orange and black buses... I'll leave that for now as I'm stepping into Glasgowken territory. Kev9 your photo's are modern classics and thanks for sharing these on UG they're all crowd pleaser's BTW
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| james73 |
The Westergate Building - I can never remember the name of that even though
I recall the site when it was, as the yanks say, a vacant lot and I remember it actually being built. There's some history in the basement of that building, I'm sure... James H |
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| Scary |
That building has a sign saying Westergate 1986 so it ties in neatly with the pic dates, in a previous pic of Hope St you can see Westerergate construction above Hope St buildings | ||||
| james73 |
Correct. I was gonnae post that but couldn't remember the name of the
building. 
James H |
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| Alex Glass |
I worked in Oswald Street before the Westergate building was started and it had previously been used as a temorary carpark. The site had been vacant for a long number of years. I don't think there will be anything left in the basement. I think everything was removed pre construstion.
I have a photo of the Plaque at Westergate 
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| kev |
Not sure why I took this..must have liked the colour but its in Hope street
Again not sure why I took this..corner of Queen St at George square..Are there any tobbaconists left in Glasgow ? |
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| Fjord |
Mibbes... there again mibbes not 
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| kev |
How good is that..... What had just been demolished ?.. Totaly superb | ||||
| HollowHorn |
Outfekkinstanding. Marine!
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| james73 |
There was a single storey row of shops there. The area underneath was the northern part of the Low Level station - there were 4 platforms originally. James H |
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| kev |
Looking more closely it must have been horded up for a few years due to the plant growth around the support girders and the advert for probably the worst lager ever in the world .. fantastic. there must be a million old photgraphs lying about in houses waiting to found . . love it | ||||
| Stuball |
You might not know why you took the picture but its a good thing you did :) Douglas and Douglas are still operating on Hope St.... a traditional shop inside where the staff know everything there is to know about stationary |
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| Scary |
I remember that now I have seen the pics, astounding research there Didn`t know about the train thing though  On a side note, I was under the Arches today and lots of bricked up entrances to what is allegedly a tunnel to Queen St.
My pics were mostly blurred or out of focus, but I will post what I have (Bits and bobs of Alien War sets too). |
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| james73 |
I think those pics were taken around the mid-late 1970s. The Low Level line was closed in 1964 and reopened in 1979. James H |
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| Stuball |
Wouldnt mind doing a bit or urbex in that site
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| kev |
This is the top of the building at the gates to the docks
as I said it had the points of the compass marked on it which you cant really make out at this size. 
bit out of focus..Havent a clue where I took this.Mabye Paisley road west area? 
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| james73 |
Possibly the building at the junction of Great Western Road and New City Road?
James H |
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| kev |
Know it was a while back but cant remember being in that part of the city..but you could be right will have a look this weekend. | ||||
| kev |
Dont know if the frontage looks the same but think its inside had a refurb in the last few years
2 photos taken in the same courtyard 
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| kev |
Glasgow green
Another of the green looking to Gorbals 
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| kev |
Maisionettes in Galloway st Springburn prior to renovation
Forth and Clyde canal at Cadder Bishopbriggs 
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| Fjord |
Photo c.1988 and the area from where it was taken has changed a bit since then
I can't remember what the two large cranes were doing if they were dismantling the Garden festival site or Govan Graving Docks? |
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| Stuball |
Late 88, possible 89? The Moat House looks complete and the Clydesdale Bank tower isnt there | ||||
| Fjord |
Eglinton Street Gorbals sunrise from the early morning train 1986
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| rotten milk |
aaah, the long brown hair, the large, yet firm body and the white feet. beautiful..... and the lassie's no' bad 'n a'
that's a bonny cuddy |
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| wullie37 |
Couple of pics from the 80's I found on my old computer:-
Road down to the old Garrioch Mill 
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| wullie37 |
The old flint mill kiln
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| wullie37 |
Old watercolour of the Garrioch Mill
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| wullie37 |
Govan Parish Church (taken from McKechnie Street)
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| wullie37 |
Some old boat on the Clyde (can't remember what it's called)
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| wullie37 |
...and my favourite...the first ever recorded pic of bird flu in Glasgow!
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| james73 |
Excellent pics wullie37.
James H |
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| Scary |
Great pics Wullie My fav is the old unknown boat with the Daily Record Building behind it
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| kev |
Has anyone seen the book "Glasgow from the eye in the sky"..found it up in the attic tonight.Absolutly fabulous aerial shots across the city taken in the late eighties | ||||
| Alex Glass |
Sounds interesting Kev
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| fastnet |
Kev...I haven't seen that book.
But i do have "one day in the life of a city." a great book that made me want to take pics. and orville................you can fly....
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| kev |
will scan and post..some crackers over the garden festival and around Townhead and the city centre..amazing some of the changes in twenty years | ||||
| fastnet |
Good man.
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| kev |
Not early but late eighties .Great view of Queen st station
Paddys market 
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| HollowHorn |
Fantastic!
In the first photo, is the RCH car park now standing at far right? In the second photo, has the high flat in the background now gone? |
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| rotten milk |
'eye in the sky'
wis that no radio clyde's traffic-watching helimacopter? when such a thing was a bit of a novelty? |
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| kev |
Thats your very man.Some guy went up with the eye in the sky and produced a book of aerial shots taken all over the city..will post the cover when I work out how to scan it..there are some amazing pics in it..found another book last night from the same era...thats where the paddys market pic came from |
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| glasgowken |
Superb
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| norrie |
Hi kevp, that bridge where the cars are parked, guess it was a street at one time, can you remember the name??
The flats in the second photo were the Queen Elizabeth flats on Cumberland st Gorbals. Good photos. Bye for now norrie |
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| james73 |
Cunnigham Street. Before that it was known as Holmhead Street. Don't ask me why (or when) it changed.... James H |
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| kev |
Which is now the walkway from the car park to the Buchanan galleries |
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| norrie |
Thanks for filling me in, I remember it now, was there a pub just at the start of the street.
Bye for now, norrie |
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| sputnik |
was that the red parrot norrie? | ||||
| norrie |
Hi sputnik, its Ok I found it, the pub was called Mathew Reid, 83 ? Dundas St at the corner of Cunningham st
Bye for now, norrie |
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| kev |
View of derelict ground around citizens theatre
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| norrie |
Hi kev9, good shot of Gorbals st and the now demolished Stirlingfaulds Place high rise flats.
I can make out some of the old tenements too. I am a sucker for Gorbals photos. Bye for now, norrie |
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| kev |
Aye Norrie it is a dark picture in the book. Still having trouble getting head round old ladys scanner..will buy one for myself this weekend as I have hunderds of slides I took in the early nineties when I used to go diving on the west coast /hebridies/St Kilda etc.... anybody recommend a good not to dear one to purchase | ||||
| norrie |
Hi Kev9 you should be able to lighten the photos ,I can do that with my camera programme.
I cant help you re a scanner, I have had mine for years, its an Epsom Hope you manage to post all your photos. Bye for now, norrie |
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| Stuball |
I'd go get a present for that picture but I'd have to be in the middle of the Fiscals office.... don't think they would like that somehow | ||||
| cybers |
I have a Canon Lide 80 I keep in my laptop bag incase i am anywhere intresting and i can scan info quickly.
It also does 35mm negs but alas there is no Vista 64bit drivers. I paid over 100 quid for mine a while ago but have seen them on Ebay lately for around the 30 quid mark. |
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| hairy_scotsman |
Been a lurker for a few months just lapping up all the great stories and photos!!!
Thought I would try to adjust kev's photo to bring out some more detail: 
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| kev |
Cheers H/S ... The photos were taken by a guy called Douglas Corrance in the eighties...have tried to track him down by E.mail but to no avail. He produced a number of books about the city which I used to get at Xmas.have found three so far ...had forgotten all about this... and I can remember even at an early age finding the old Glasgow fascinating...Ask Jack in the citizen.....was reawoken to it when I found this AMAZING forum...Will post more of Douglas,s excellent pics ASAP I,m sure he wont be upset....Will have a few past presents tommorrow or Sat Cheers | ||||
| norrie |
Hi Kev9, I cant get enough old photos of Glasgow, bring them on.
Bye for now, norrie |
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| kev |
Time for some more
St enoch centre is nearing completion 
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Cant for the life of me remember where this shop was..though I remember passing it many times |
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| rotten milk |
pic 3 showing the expanding strathclyde uni campus being...erm...expanded
(but is this pic not early 70s?) high st at the bottom, rottenrow running bottom up, collins st. tenements, weaver st. still in place complete with baths/wash-hoose the new low-rise buildings between taylor/weaver streets are birkbeck court, which are still there! everything else from taylor st. down to high st. are now memories (except barony kirk) and of course the destruction zone in the background of parly rd./buchanan st. station RE: the mad buyer - was this no' one o' the shops along the gallowgate, before you get to the barras - late 80s there were still loads of shops selling 2nd-hand electrical/music equipment - old guitars/amps/keyboards etc. - you were never going to get a vintage bargain (maybe an all-valve marshall occasionally), but loads of 70s stuff - remember wanting an antoria SG junior but couldn't afford the £90 price-tag!
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| rotten milk |
news just in!
googled the phone number: General Dealer 117 London Rd Glasgow Lanarkshire G1 5BS Tel: 0141 552 1874 presumably the same place? just realised, i meant london rd, not gallowgate 
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx...&scene=29129559&encType=1 look at all they posh flats - there was another huge 2nd hand emporium on the corner of london rd./moir st. |
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| Stuball |
Ohh, I remember the General Dealer... the building was knocked down a few years ago to make way for 'luxury apartments' | ||||
| Fjord |
Was General Dealer not gutted by a fire
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| Stuball |
Not that I recall.... but it could have been |
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| kev |
Spot on the Milk..The pic in question is not out of the book...to be honest I cant remember where I got it but Dobbies loan is still very prominent so I guess your right about the timeline Anyway ..have just woken up after the session from hell over in the west end last night/this morning...wish Oran Mor shut at 1 am instead of 3.30 am as i cant seem to leave until closing time...and have loads of past/presents to go out and shoot Will post this evening Cheers |
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| glasgowken |
Buses are still in Corporation livery which makes it definitely pre mid 1970's. |
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