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| stevem |
Royal Stuart HotelI work for Euro Hostel on Clyde Street and am doing research on the Royal Stuart Hotel, which is the original business in this building. If anyone has any information, stories or photos it would be much appreciated. |
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| Stuball |
Theres a photo of it somewhere here...... cant remember where | ||||
| james73 |
These pics are apparently from February 1961.
James H |
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| Alex Glass |
Great photos James 
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| Whambamthankumam |
Long, long time ago I worked in the west end of London for about 6 months for a hotel company who also owned loads of Angus Steakhouses, they owned The Royal Stuart. I can't remember the exact title of this company but it was something like London _______ Hotels. It might come back to me. | ||||
| schiehallion |
You sound like you're a bit sceptical about the photos being from February 1961 James, and I'd say you're right to be. The old Central Station bridge was taken out of use in January 1961. This photo clearly shows the bridge already out of use with the lines re-routed meaning the photo must date from at the very earliest, January 1961. As we can see, the hotel is yet to be built. 
It does appear quite new looking in this 1966 photo which can easily be dated because they removed the old bridge during 1966 and that operation is in progress in this photo. 
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| Stuball |
Good detective work, detective schiehallion | ||||
| schiehallion |
You want to see what I can do with chimneys. Smokin'! |
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| james73 |
Yep, I have the year 1965 as being the year it was built in my head for some reason. 
James H |
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| neilmc |
This subject has already been touched upon:-
http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/about6.html (bottom of page 1 into page 2) Great Universal Stores took out a lease on the hotel commencing January 1965 - "Royal Stuart Hotel" is actually named on the lease at that time. |
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| Fjord |
Thanks for that neilmc I doubt I'd have ever found it. Looks like it's still under construction going by the scaffolding and the sign isn't yet in place.
Note the 'heavy railway bridge evidence' as mentioned by Schiehallion is still very much intact although probably out of use pending demolition. 
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| james73 |
These two aerial shots show the original Central station bridge in various states
of deconstruction and the Hotel appears between the two.
James H |
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| schiehallion |
I noticed that too James but I reckon in the 1961 photo, in re-routing the most easterly lines over the current bridge, they've had to peel back the tracks at either end. That's all.
Possibly they then may have lifted the rest of the rails but the bridge infrastructure itself would remain intact for the next 4 years. In the 1961 photo the bridge with it's gantries and the original Glasgow Central signal box sited between the two bridges are all intact. |
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