The Hidden Glasgow Forums

Half our ships are sitting in a museum in San Diego in California

I thought there were more than two ships built on the Clyde.

http://www.sdmaritime.com/ContentPage.asp?ContentID=9

Isn't it just convenience? Hit the Randomise button a few times and leave it get on with it, and you can work and play away uninterrupted. I used to hate the way LPs and cassettes churned out everything in the same order every time they were played. The arrival of the CD was a real improvement, eve...

Captain Brittles wrote:Shop Stewards have a social concience and know how to conduct themselves when representing their fellow workers/colleagues. Nice post.

Except boilermakers and of course members of the NUT and NAHT. What an example they provide each year.

is it the same punter who does the airbrushed west coast USA scenes on the dodgems? (you know... boss eyed pamela anderson, one breast bigger than the other) Whilst I don't have your boss eye for detail it might just be that Pamela Anderson like many other women does have one breast larger than the...

Geeks chained to computers did not like sport at school.

Quelle surprise

Captain Brittles wrote:
::): Did some of the 37,000 not turn up then ? Must've went to the pub No wonder Sunderland counts the quickest.

They weigh the Labour vote in Sunderland rather than count it.

"Roads are paid for by ALL road users"

Aye right! Substitute "tax" for "road" and get it right.

From the Glasgow Harbour part of the Clydeport website: Taking the embanment away will open up the waterfront and the Glasgow harbour site, and create a much strongder link between Glasgow Harbour and Partick. Business-speak pish. Why the hell would some yuppie who's paid £300,000 for a riverside s...

"and so upon receiving my voting slip from a very nice young female council employee (who was probably taking a days holiday and getting the election fee as a top up to her salary - they all do it apparently) " What all 37000 employees? Which other employer is going to give time off to staff to help...

::): they werent finished in time to open for wednesday, none of the bar equipment had been installed and needed to be tested blah blah blah.... still, it looks lush inside now! and they've got a lift! ::): Aye the lift's inside the Ferry and you still have to go down a Gangway pitched at a 45 degr...

Yeah, that's why I got it too. I'm just saying that from the point of view of a "reference/archive/what ever as to what glasgow used to look like before the days of our so called "cosmopolitan" age." its not worth buying. The stills on this thread cover all that was in the film, excluding a short s...

You can still buy photographs off the site. or use th e mail address below I showed my wife this and she is a tad annoyed that the cooncil might make money out of selling her great grandmother's photo that they somehow acquired and put on Virtual Mitchell. In fairness copyright of it is not claimed...

james73 wrote:There's an old church converted to an indoor market in Gibson Street which
had a vinyl store in it. Is that still there?



James H

That was years ago. Vital Vinyl? emigrated to a shop in St. George's Road which closed about year ago. I think they might now be on e bay.

Does anyone remember the Sunday Standard? This was on sale about twenty years ago. It lasted a bit longer than the Scottish Standard, about a year I think. Quite a good paper actually, or at least I thought so. Can't remember whether it was the Herald or the Scotsman who published it. A forerunner ...

I could be completely wrong about this but was Clayslaps Road by any chance known as Radnor Street at one time? The reason I am wondering is that in the old Glasgow Corporation days there used to be a no. 57 bus service which ran from Arden to Radnor Street and I used to see 57 buses taking their l...