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streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject:

The little minx in the background of Ken’s photo was very insistent that I take one of her. I think she wanted to show off her red knickers. Not a photo I would care to take today.

streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:18 pm Post subject:

Looking down Dovecot to the Burgh Hall tower and the gable end of the Stag building, both still there though most of the Old Shaws has of course been redeveloped.

streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject:

After the ‘shoot’ I did a little gentle UrbEx-ing long before such a thing had been invented, and the following were the results. I don’t have an exact location for any of them, just places in the Old Shaws where demolition was imminent.

streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject:

Evening in Pleasance St. This was pushing the film to, or a bit beyond, its limits.

streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject:

The Horse Shoe in Drury St. A long exposure, with the camera stood on a table, which is why the barman is ghostly.

streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject:

A frosty Sunday morning at the Barras, Kent St I think, in December 1963. A great time of year to be a stallholder, wifies queuing up to throw money at you, loads of stock still to be opened.

streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject:

The lights in George Square. December 1976

streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject:

and December 1963

streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject:

This model railway used to run round the Christmas tree at Queen St (or was it Central?) Station, to raise money and gifts for local charities. December 1963

streapadair · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject:

Fire at Edward McNeil’s warehouse in Stanley St. c1986