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scottie

Somewhere in the City 1960

hope this is the right place for these  

im sure they are from 1960



HollowHorn

Excellent. I don't know if I've ever seen cranes so far upriver.
mr.underwood

Cranes

HollowHorn,They were used to unload gravel and such beside the dirtiest,smelliest toilets in Glasgow!!The S.M.T. terminus for buses to Nitshill,Barhead & Nielston was situated there.If you needed a pee you held your breath all the time you were in there.Great to see the Carrick just at the bridge.She was used as an R.N.V.R. club for many years until the powers that be moved her and she ended up rotting away down at the Maratime Museum in Irvine.Shame!!!!!!
Alex Glass

Two great photos Scottie and certainly in the right place.

The one of the band crossing the bridge is full of interesting features along the river side.
Fjord

Re: Somewhere in the City 1960

scottie wrote:





Great pics Scottie that looks like Bridge Street looking down Oxford Street from the railway bridge. It's changed a bit since then and only a couple of the buildings on the right survive today assuming I've got the right location. Was there a railwayman in the family?
scottie

Re: Somewhere in the City 1960

Fjord wrote:


Great pics Scottie that looks like Bridge Street looking down Oxford Street from the railway bridge. It's changed a bit since then and only a couple of the buildings on the right survive today assuming I've got the right location. Was there a railwayman in the family?


spot on, i never even thought of where they were actually taken from, my dad did work in the wiring side of the railway
Fjord

Here's how the area looked from above around the time the photo was taken. Green dot marks the spot where your Dad took the photo from  



And how the area looks in more recent times


neilmc

This photo has been in the family collection for years, and may well be the same march*; but where is this?



*Edit: no, it can't be the same march - different tartan.
tombro

neilmc,

The building on the left hand side of your picture might help a little in identifying the location.

It looks like it might be a Bar or a Pub called 'The Thistle'.  Maybe it's out Firhill way !

Tombro  
samscafeamericain

tombro wrote:
neilmc,

The building on the left hand side of your picture might help a little in identifying the location.

It looks like it might be a Bar or a Pub called 'The Thistle'.  Maybe it's out Firhill way !

Tombro  


It reminds me of on the road to Hampden.
escotregen

I think you're right about the Jags conncection, or at least the Maryhill connection, see:

http://www.mypubguide.com/dne/app.../pub/pub-22806-thistle%20bar.aspx
Alex Glass

I trawled through the Virtual Mitchell Pub photos and couldn't find a photo which was very disappointing. I was sure I have seen a photo of the Thistle before

Well done Escot
HollowHorn

Not so sure that it's Maryhill Rd.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q...870972855797,,0,5.765597778745644
escotregen

multimap locates it on Maryhill Road as well (if this works)...

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=...yhill+Road+G20&countryCode=GB
Scary

I`m sure there was a thistle bar on garscube road ?
HollowHorn

escotregen wrote:
multimap locates it on Maryhill Road as well (if this works)...

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=...yhill+Road+G20&countryCode=GB


Sorry Scotty, I agree that the pub was there, It just does not look to me like the original photo was taken there.
LowLight

That pub used to be the Clarendon. No idea if it was called Thistle before that though.
AlanM

That tenement is brand spanking new. The original one was burnt down a few years ago.
LowLight

That's right Alan. The pub name only changed from the Clarendon to Thistle after the building was rebuilt.
AlanM

and here's the new story of the fire

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3415645.stm
HollowHorn

LowLight wrote:
That's right Alan. The pub name only changed from the Clarendon to Thistle after the building was rebuilt.

Did you mean to say the other way round?

The thing that puts me off the idea that it is the same location as the 60's one is that the row of tenements seems much longer in the present pic, have they added some on since the early pic was taken?
LowLight

HollowHorn wrote:
LowLight wrote:
That's right Alan. The pub name only changed from the Clarendon to Thistle after the building was rebuilt.

Did you mean to say the other way round?

The thing that puts me off the idea that it is the same location as the 60's one is that the row of tenements seems much longer in the present pic, have they added some on since the early pic was taken?


Don't think so HH. It was called the Clarendon, building burns down and gets rebuilt, renamed to The Thistle.

Correct me if I'm wrong though.
HollowHorn

LowLight wrote:
Don't think so HH. It was called the Clarendon, building burns down and gets rebuilt, renamed to The Thistle. Correct me if I'm wrong though.


Ma heids nippin'    The news report on the Claredon fire is from 2004 but the Thistle is shown in the 6o's pic.
LowLight

HollowHorn wrote:
LowLight wrote:
Don't think so HH. It was called the Clarendon, building burns down and gets rebuilt, renamed to The Thistle. Correct me if I'm wrong though.


Ma heids nippin'    The news report on the Claredon fire is from 2004 but the Thistle is shown in the 6o's pic.


hahaha aye because I agree that it isn't the same Thistle.    
kev

Nice shot of Kingston bridge ..late sixties

streapadair

Def not Maryhill Rd - too wide, and where is there a damn big tree like that?

That said, I don't have a better suggestion. Far left there's what looks like a Keep Left sign, at an odd angle. Are the spectators standing on an island rather than the pavement? Is it (the street the band is turning into) a major road which turns left with no option of straight on?

http://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/pubs%20t.html
lists 4 'Thistle . . .' pubs, but none fits the bill I think. Makes no claim to be comprehensive though. Do we have an approximate date for the photo? A contemporary phone book (does the Mitchell keep them?) might reveal others.

More questions than answers, sorry.
streapadair

Nice one, Kev. Kingston Dock and Windmillcroft Quay on one side of the bridge, cranes of Springfield Quay on the other. Laidlaw St prominent on the right.
norrie

Hi Fjiord, great photos of Gorbals.
I am into collecting photos of Gorbals, could you send me copies of both photos please.
Clarendon pub was at the corner of Maryhill rd and Clarendon st ,
here is a photo I took in April 2009 show the building after it was rebuilt.
I cant think why they changed the name to the Thistle, its been the Claredon ever since I remember.
Bye for now, norrie


scottie

love the pic of the kingston bridge

these pics were from the same film as the first 2 i posted

these were also scanned from negatives







Stuball

Fantastic.... although I'm trying to get my head around the last 2 as to what I'm looking at
Alycidon

The whole sequence shows preparatory work for the resignalling of Glasgow Central, the first two show the new electro pneumatic point equipment being installed, the last two show the signal box under construction
scottie

Alycidon wrote:
The whole sequence shows preparatory work for the resignalling of Glasgow Central, the first two show the new electro pneumatic point equipment being installed, the last two show the signal box under construction


there are several more pics of mainly just railway track.......lol
Alycidon

I would like to see these!!
Marti

Great pics... I wonder what the Health & Safety Executive would have to say, In this day of safety critical rules & regulations...  
How times have changed.
neilmc

neilmc wrote:
This photo has been in the family collection for years, and may well be the same march*; but where is this?



*Edit: no, it can't be the same march - different tartan.


Just to resolve this part of the thread, I think I've found the location of the above photo, thanks to you guys pointing me in the right direction.
It is indeed Maryhill Road, but a bit further north, at the junction with Henderson Street, looking north:-

If it hadn't been for your input, I don't think I'd ever have found it - thanks again!  
norrie

Hi scottie great photos, the first two Central Station???
I am also at a loss about the last two
Bye for now, norrie
bullet

scottie wrote:
love the pic of the kingston bridge

these pics were from the same film as the first 2 i posted

these were also scanned from negatives









Hello everybody, the last 2 are looking north from Salkend Street area. The wee building on the right is still there.

cybers

Crackers Bullet but whats Cliff richard doing in there ?  
kev

April 1966. Junction of Hope street and St Vincent street..the first ever yellow box in the city

trolleybus

There was a Thistle bar in the Gorbals
Eddy

Just to resolve this part of the thread, I think I've found the location of the above photo, thanks to you guys pointing me in the right direction.
It is indeed Maryhill Road, but a bit further north, at the junction with Henderson Street, looking north:-


The overhead shot shows the Abington Bar, at Abbington St bottom right. The pub circled in the photo and marked PH on your map opposite the Central Hall, is the Ben Mhor on the corner of Napiershall St and Maryhill Rd.
The Thistle Bar on Maryhill Rd was on the corner of Burnbank Terrace - see pic.There was also a Thistle Bar on the corner of Oakbank St and Garscube Rd.
Le durachd,
Eddy






Eddy
Alex Glass

Well done Eddy and    to Urban Glasgow

It is great to see someone new joining in on resolving an issue.  

Keep up the good work
Scary

Eddy wrote:
There was also a Thistle Bar on the corner of Oakbank St and Garscube Rd.

Eddy


Thanks for that Eddy as I thought I had imagined it

Welcome to UG  
kev

As a by the way to the main point you can see how delapidated the tenements had become by the time the colour picture had been taken which I would guess would be the late sixties /very early seventies...the main one doesent have any roof tiles...no wonder the high flats were a godsend at the time
Charlie Endell

kev wrote:
As a by the way to the main point you can see how delapidated the tenements had become by the time the colour picture had been taken which I would guess would be the late sixties /very early seventies

Earliest year would be '73 - there's an Austin Allegro in the picture and they were launched in that year.
norrie

Hi eddy, great photos.
Bye for now, norrie
Eddy

"Earliest year would be '73 - there's an Austin Allegro in the picture and they were launched in that year."

Well spotted Charlie, it was 1974. I've got other colour snaps of Napiershall St taken around the same time by another photgrapher. The Ben Mhor was used in the Jimmy Boyle film, "A Sense of Freedom" and Napiershall St was the setting for one of the fight scenes.

Eddy
Charlie Endell

Eddy wrote:

Well spotted Charlie, it was 1974. I've got other colour snaps of Napiershall St taken around the same time by another photgrapher. The Ben Mhor was used in the Jimmy Boyle film, "A Sense of Freedom" and Napiershall St was the setting for one of the fight scenes.

Eddy


I would never have been able to place the location as Napiershall Street without being told that's where it was. I find early / mid '70s photographs of Glasgow fascinating - thanks for posting that one Eddy.

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