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https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1747/27546490517_8326cc1fde_b.jpg The site of the old Lord Byron Hotel is now occupied by Jury's Inn. Lots of ideal bedrooms for trainspotters! This view shows the surviving warehouses of Jamaica Street as well as Argyle Street at the top where Grahamston would have be...
Enjoyed a visit to the “Langside 450” exhibition at Langside Library, commemorating the forthcoming anniversary of the battle on 13th May. It was very informative and well worth a visit. I’ve since been having a look at the possible effect of the terrain in and around Langside on the outcome of the ...
The old building occupied by the Lord Byron Hotel did not survive for long after the railway development of 1879. It was replaced in 1883 by a multi-storey warehouse that wouldn’t have looked out of place round the corner among the stylish blocks in Jamaica Street, which are featured at http://www.s...
The resolution of the earlier photograph was high enough for me to zoom in and have a look at the buildings on the riverside that disappeared under the rail track and those that survived. The corner block at Broomielaw and Jamaica Street, which would later become Paisley’s store, was occupied by J. ...
I've added a view of the future site of Central Station taken from a window of the Railway Hotel at Bridge Street. It was taken from around the same position as a slightly later photograph which shows the newly erected railway bridge across the Clyde. The earlier photograph shows the multi-storey wa...
I think that your assumption is spot-on, BTJ. On my M74 walk I got a look at the “raised sandstone structure” from other angles. Typical Victorian railway viaducts with arches below, much the same as to be seen throughout Tradeston/ Gorbals. Here are some views from north and south, showing the trac...
It is a real photograph taken in this afternoon's sunshine from behind the entrance of the Southern Necropolis in Gorbals, strangely not a sneaky stitch up!
I reckon that the gatehouse (to the left) is marginally taller, just my point of view of course!
Some newspaper articles from 1869/ 1870 which suggest that the first Queen Margaret Bridge and the retaining wall where part of a single co-ordinated civil engineering project for Mr John Ewing Walker in preparation for laying out his new suburb North Kelvinside, initially known as “Kelvinside”. The...
Found our mystery bridge-makers in the 1878 PO Directory, at Vermont Street, Kinning Park. http://www.scotcities.com/smith_naysmith.jpg The works don't seem to have been around long enough to appear on the OS maps on their survey dates. The most probable site shown on the OS map surveyed 1893/1894 w...
Took Josef's advice to revisit this thread after mentioning Glasgow's canal network elsewhere. Josef mentioned that before the advent of the railways the Glasgow, Paisley & Johnstone Canal had for quite some time substantially cut the journey time from Paisley to Glasgow from somewhere in the re...
The Newcastle Waggons travelling from Scotland used the “great public road to London” via Edinburgh and Newcastle to transport goods to the capital. There was no comparable long distance road on the west coast suitable for heavy goods traffic. Even though Glasgow had been latterly coerced by the Pos...
Been having a look at the transportation of goods to and from Glasgow before the the age of canals and the deepening of the Clyde to make it navigable all the way to the Broomielaw. Traders used carts and pack-horses to move goods and raw materials to and from the harbours at Port Glasgow on the Cly...
Here's a return to a really old topic....... Back in 1849 Albert was still alive. The young queen hadn't quite got into the mourning black yet! They travelled with the weans to Glasgow in the Royal Yacht, arriving at the foot of West Street, where the southern side of the Squiggly Bridge is now situ...