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You have a 7 year old wife?
right thats it Metro letters page!

Went yesterday, well worth the free entry!
I was excelent , make the effort, go now!

I spoke to a bloke from Parkhead He used to play a game going home from work on the bus. He would count the number of Al Jolsons spray painted on walls,his record was 18 he thinks
I'm still not convinced that it was the same person as our busker friend,
any more ideas?

Dee you may have a point The Germans had thought that Queens Park looked strange on photos taken from the air. the contours looked man made.They may have thought it was a factory or storage.It was regularly bombed during the second world war.The streets behind Camphill had a few direct hits.Some of ...

Good photos the Fossel From my geography days.I think they are called trig pillers or markers, something to do with mesurement using triangulation,that leads on to geometary not my subject! there is one up on the Cathkin Braes I think they are usualy in areas over a certain sea leaval. What was the ...

Excelent reserch Modern Fossel Halfway to Paradise was excelent friday night just after the pub viewing The guy who presented it was a Glasgow actor and he presented the show like he was the bouncer on a club door. But what was his name???? Thank you for rembering this program and helping me retrace...

Hate to admit it but i've got every episode of Taggart on Video
sad eh ?

I don't think he did sing!
I thought it was a mime.He had a tape recorder and a trilby hat to collect the money I think Avril Patton may have painted him In her Barras Painteing that hangs In the Peoples Palace
Anyone remember??
There are a few Glasgow nutters in that Painting .

"Glasgow City Of Love"
I think that was just an excuse to put a big wheel in George Sq

At present the fruit market is being renovated as part of the ongoing work next door at the city halls(new rehersal rooms for one of the BBC orchestras).I dare say you could go in for a wee look a no one Keep guard (Albion street Entrance) I Have spoken with a Glasgow veg merchant he tells me there ...

The painted on bus Q was on the hording surrounding what is now Glasgows most ugly building The Glass House in Stockwell St I watched the Guy Paint It for a couple of days .He looked like an old art teacher. I must say it was a fine peice of street art I know what you are after I saw an advert in Ru...

If you look when traveling east from Charing Cross to Queen St at the point that would be at Blythswood area there is an alcove in the tunnel.Perhaps a proposed platform? AS for a station entrance there are so many small coatch houses and mews in the lanes around West Regent and Bath Street, very in...

Whatever happend to the fab Scottish country dance music that they used to play in the morning and evening rush hour at Central station?? I have never heard anything like it. It was like Hogmany all year round. We used to skip off to work like worker ants! It's all barrier checks and free samples of...

Both hotels were until early 80's owend and run by the now defunct british transport hotels ie station hotels. Having spent some time in both kitchens(both did have there own bakers) but they are the two main stations in Glasgow owend by the same operators. There is every chance that given that they...

can anyone help
what was nelson mandela sq called
before the name change
I know the old stock exchange was there
any ideas??