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Saltmarketeer
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| streapadair wrote: | | Saltmarketeer wrote: |
I love this one, especially the half-demolished block in the distant left.
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Thanks. Would you happen to know just where it was taken, for I'm having trouble pinning it down? (Maybe have to get Prof. Fjord on the case.). Pretty sure it was somewhere between the Maryhill Locks and Stockingfield Junction, looking east(-ish), and the canal does a bit of twisting and turning which fits the left/right bends in the photo. But where were the tenements on the hill? Where the allotments running down from them? And is that Ruchill Hospital centre skyline - I don't think it's visible from any part of the towpath, but that could be due to the trees, for the banks are much more wooded now.
SCRAN has some photos of this 1975 festival (including at least one of this boat and horse) as well as the 1973 and 1974 ones, but they don't elucidate things. |
Sandbank Street maybe? Those look like four spires in the middle distance.
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streapadair
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Saltmarketeer wrote: |
Sandbank Street maybe? Those look like four spires in the middle distance.
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Think you're right, well up the hill at Campbell St. The allotments had been puzzling me, but the 1890s map shows an allotment area below Campbell St.
This must be Maryhill Industrial School (started as a Magdalene, then an Industrial School for Girls, then according to the c1980 map a school for the deaf). New housing now, St Clairs. |
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Fjord
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| streapadair wrote: | | Fjord wrote: |
I think I've found the location of the Victoria Circus villa. |
There was some evidence I hadn't made available to you - a pic from the opposite direction which I didn't think was interesting enough to include in the collection (added it now).
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Cheers for the additional photo and info I went down for a look yesterday and and it all made sense. Admittedly I didn't have far to walk as it's almost outside my front door.
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Fjord
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| Eddy wrote: | | streapadair wrote: | Applecross St bascule bridge. The quadrant plate is still there (and the deck repaired), but the bridge is no longer hand-cranked. I think the tenements were in Oakbank Terrace but am prepared to be corrected on this. March 1974
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That is Oakbank Terrace;we lived there, 1951-63. By the way, don't be so hard on yourself about 'failing' to have taken pictures of this area and Springburn.
I'm still looking for a picture of Oakbank Terrace but now have a lot of the area. Having helped set up the Springburn Museum, I can say that there is no shortage of photos of that area. Certainly nothing of significance has been lost though it might have benifited from someone like you with an eye for detail.
Thanks very much for posting these. Did you see the aerial shot of St Joseph's that I posted?
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You might be interested in this late 1940's aerial image of the area
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kev
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Nice pic of Baird Brae and Oakbank hospital which can be seen on the right of Fjords aerial photo at the sharp v in the road
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streapadair
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Cracker, Kev. Where on earth do you get them from? (That's a rhetorical question, no need to answer).
I've been using Baird's Brae quite a bit, painless way of getting to the town by bike, and was gobsmacked to find on VM that there used to be a huge cinema at the gushet. Keep meaning to take a Then & Now. |
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kev
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Bairds brae today...at least the cobbles are still there
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Eddy
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You might be interested in this late 1940's aerial image of the area
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Thank you Fjord, great detail in this. The area had changed a wee bit by the time we lived there but not by much though Oakbank St only had two closes and two pubs, one on each corner, by the '50s.
Do you have any idea what the objects are in the large open area besides the hospital?
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streapadair
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Air-raid shelters? There's more about than just the ones at the hospital. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Nice pic of the Astoria... I watched it burn to the ground in 1995. It was the 2nd largest cinema in Glasgow I believe
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