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sputnik · Single Fish Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Posts: 195

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Please keep all comments about the Clyde to Townhead images in here folks.

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let me be the first to congratulate you streap amazing collection yet again.more,more.

james73 · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject:

streapadair - sensational pictures. So much has changed in such a fairly short time.

James H
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Stuball · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject:

Apart from the shops, not alot has changed from the green to the barony
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Fjord · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:41 am Post subject:

Yet another fantastic contribution of unique images I'm well impressed.

What kind of camera did you take these with as there's very little distortion on the verticals not to mention the sharpness of them.

Drittsekk · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:56 am Post subject:

Thanks for those. I must have been here many times about then but dont remember very much.
Excellent collection
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HollowHorn · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:59 pm Post subject:

I have a feeling that those curtains are still hanging there at present, no?
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Scary · Deep fried Mars bar Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 1024

Excellent contribution streapadair, a pleasure to view

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falseface · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject:

rotten milk · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:59 pm Post subject:

the righthand-most building here is 81 rottenrow,formerly an 'indigent old men's and old women's asylum'. when the strathclyde uni development of the 70s cut through rottenrow, it became rottenrow east.

it's where i stayed 1987-89 when studying, as it was strathclyde's 'balmanno' residence. between the bloke and the lamppost is the 'front door' as it were.

each floor was twin rooms, with communal kitchens (rightmost windows 1st, 2nd, 3rd, floors)

i have some interior shots - most of the rooms had wooden panelling, panelled doors etc. under several layers of paint, but the TV lounge and some of the entrance lobby still had the real wood exposed, complete with huge wooden mantelpiece

looking, back i wish i'd took more phots, it was a lovely old building, a bit scruffy and forgotten about. i think it was demolished early 90s and was replaced by an ugly lego block.

anyhoo, by 1988, it was the last original rottenrow east building, apart from the barony kirk

balmanno from taylor st.

the fenced area on the left of your pic, as you turn into taylor st. is where the robertson memorial church stood

a 1964/1988 past present, courtesy virtual mitchell

once again, you have surpassed yourself, sir - even better 'cos it's an area i stayed in for a coupla years, never thinking to record the event at the time - truly excellent

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Alex Glass · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject:

Wooooooooowwwwwww!

These are fantastic

We are indebted to you Streapadair.

These photos definitely deserve to be shown and It is great to be on here viewing them and seeing places which I had forgotten about.

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