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Stuball · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:

They havent got rights to distribute them

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glasgowken · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:32 am Post subject:

Ah, ok cheers.

Alex Glass · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:55 pm Post subject:

I was having a look through the collection as it is really quiet on here and no one seems to be active at the moment. Any way - I noticed in the City Centre 1970 aerial photo that only the Kingston Bridge appears to be completed and there doesn't seem to be much of the M8 on either side of the bridge.

It got me thinking about the Glasgow 1980 video which shows the Queen Mother opening the bridge and another part of the video shows sections of the M8 but there doesn't appear to be any visible work going on!

I also notice that on a couple of the Oatlands photos you can see the whole of Richmond Park.

It looks so good that the photo must have been taken when the park was at it's peak.

Maybe worth a project on the history of the park. I saw a book somewhere which has a chapter on each of Glasgow's parks. I will need to try and see if I can remember where I saw it to see what it says about Richmond Park.

Does anyone know anything about either the construction of the Kingston Bridge and M8 or Richmond Park?
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Stuball · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:58 pm Post subject:

I know that the Kingston bridge was heated during the winter to stop ice forming.... it was a central heated bridge! I have a picture somewhere of an accident on the bridge which was a result of the heating being switched off during the miner strikes (I think)
I'm not sure if the bridge is heated anymore but I'm guessing no
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Alex Glass · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:17 am Post subject:

I have a video of the recent repairs and the moving of the bridge. They didn't mention anything in that about having to turn the heating off during the work so maybe due to cost it was discontinued some years ago.

I should copy that video and load it up on YouTube

Just a thought - I know some people where out with Falseface n the 2nd January doing another M74 walk. Maybe it would be a good project to use the aerial photos to track where the M74 should have went. I am sure they should cover it most of the way through the south of Glasgow.

I was hoping that the aerials in the collection had some views of Glasgow Green as I have a chapter giving the history of the Green and was contemplating doing a project. I will have to use the others as they do show the whole of the Green.
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Stuball · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:35 am Post subject:

Would you like an aerial shot of the green from 2007? It's not a perfect overhead shot but its the green :)

Oh, I have pictures of the Kingston Bridge when it was closed for moving and some pictures of the first vehicles over (large bunch of motorbikes)
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Fjord · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:05 pm Post subject: Dalmarnock Army Depot?

I was taking a closer look at the Dalmarnock pics and was drawn to the amount of vehicles in storage in a depot near Shawfield stadium given that there's very few private or commercial vehicles with the exception of Trams on the road in any of the images makes me suspect that they're army trucks and various other types.
There's also what looks like Bailey pontoon bridges as well as some other small boats in amongst the rather neatly parked herringbone rows. Seeing as these pics were taken just after the war I'd guess this is where all the surplus military hardware ended up after de-mob in Europe.

I couldn't find anything online regarding this location during WW2 which makes it all the more interesting unless anyone has another suggestions. Maybe Grandad bought a bargain 2 and a half tonner at auction back in the day?

I note that in the present day photo there's a Camp Road that runs through the former site... is that a clue to it's past?

Dalmarnock at Shawfield

*note the pontoons on the lower left row of vehicles

An example of a Bailey Pontoon Bridge in action

Chief Inspector · Single Fish Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 195

That picture had always intrested me I'm sur some of that land is now TA
so that might explain the MOD conection (transport dev?)
It is a much smaller site now and i'm sur the TA transport moved over to Kings Park.
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james73 · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject: Re: Dalmarnock Army Depot?

Alex Glass · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject: