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The 'blue pool' is actually a redundant (and flooded) break pressure chamber that was part of the Grangemouth town council water supply from North Thirds Reservoir. The building warrant record and associate material is located within Falkirk Council Archives at Callendar House, Falkirk. Ref. 'Stirli...
The first photo is of the viaduct (still standing and taking trains between Whifflet and Glasgow Central) crossing the Luggie burn between Bargeddie (the bricks in the foreground are at the Drumpark Brickwork) and the Coatbridge suburb of Kirkwood. Second photo is the then remaining piers (one still...
I had a CT scan at the RI a few weeks ago @ 6pm. Its open till eight Mon-Fri. Now if only our extremely hard pressed, stressed out, poorly paid (at approx. £100k P.A.) and under valued GPs could deliver a similar service ......... Nope, not a chance of that, they'd have a mass collective heart attac...
DavidMcD316 wrote:heard a rumour that the end of the town centre thats got the post office is all going to be shut for 3 months so they can do tests to see if the building can support a planned cinema to be built on top of it.
Somebody is having a laugh. Its monstrous enough looking.
Except it didn't belong to the people of Glasgow but the people of Lanarkshire who frequented and supported it as much as Glaswegians and in fact its financial survival was always helped by both hidden and open subsidies * from Lanarkshire county council up until 1975 when it fell into the clutches ...
Icecube, Is the photo taken at the scene of one of Manuel's murders, with a group of police there? If it is that one, then I will buy it right away! Am sure it is though its about ten years since I read it. There are a few local aerial photos of places in it that you will surely recognise.
Actually some digging of the canal from the Forth & Clyde canal to Bo'Ness did take place before the money ran out. A line of it - a wide and deep ditch can still be seen within the boundary of BP Kinneil terminal.
FBJ you must know that the precise spelling of the name doesn't matter much, there was no uniformity until recently. In fact it doesn't matter that much now does it? Despite the Spelling Gestapo screaming it does.
Cromwell's invasion and subjugation of Scotland is not something that sits well in the mainstream edited version of Scottish history. Indeed not something the present regime would like to hear very much about either but your correct Scotland was incorporated in to the English Commonwealth at the time.
A snippet on the subject: "Until 1803 the Royal Mail was carried on horseback between Glasgow and Edinburgh. In April of that year it was started to be conveyed by carriage. Some of the names of the coaches over the years were; Prince of Wales, Star, Royal Telegraph, True Briton, Royal Eagle, Q...
I wish you luck but I think you'll find GCC have other plans for the area. i.e. up market houses.
Anyway the Dog Trust is just along the road at Boghall and the SSPCA in the other direction along at Bothwell Bridge. How many dog rescue centres do we need?