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I’ve started the picture section of the quiz pages by creating a couple of image based rounds, attaching a few questions and answers to the jpegs. I can’t pretend to have known all the answers off the top of my head without a bit of research. A wee while back, I had to ask HG regulars to tell me the...

On the technical side of creating quiz pages in html, without the need for JavaScript or all kinds of weird and wonderful mechanics. I uncovered an obscure American quiz, written it pure html with the highlighted answers. You only need one page per round, with both questions and answers in the one p...

32/50 is the score to beat for southside smartasses!

I’ve created a 5 round interactive Southside quiz , which may be of interest. A couple of examples: Which south side landmark building was previously situated in Queen Street in the city centre from 1847 to 1901? Which south side school did Stan Laurel (of Laurel and Hardy fame) attend? I intend to ...

Stumbled upon a wee piece of Townhead for sale in Illinois USA, which didn’t quite make it for the City of Architecture in 1999! http://images.vandm.biz/content/images/800x600/_SMT1018.jpg If you fancy returning it to Glasgow, you can buy it here. I’m not surprised it hasn’t sold yet. There’s not a ...

Magic stuff Dave!! You’re a brave man heading through the trees and the mud to get the same angle as I got last September. I’ll need to find out more about the software that lets you create the fantastic merged images. Got attacked by a mad dog a few weeks ago on the path beside the site of the old ...

When the library newsrooms first opened, they proved to be too popular. Imagine providing free access to newspapers and magazines to all the common scumbags! http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/townhead_details.jpg I laughed at some of the reasons given in this 1910 article against the provision of o...

Cheers Dexter!! In real life I’m grupmy old grandpa……………. Went out last night with granny (wife) and the great-grandma for a Chinese Meal. The old bird loved telling us innocent grandparents stories about Townhead Library when she was a little girl. Hung about it all the time mixing with the boys an...

papa lazarou asked Does anyone have pics of what the street looked like with the library?? Also, is this building not next to the old railway line coming out of Buchanan Street to Garngad Train Station?? The ground to build the library was offered to Glasgow Corporation by the Caledonian Railway Com...

Corner of Bell Street and South Albion Street c.1890.

This 1850’s map shows that the Govan Ferry had slipways on either side of the river for vehicular traffic, a long time before the technically superior Finnieston Ferry came into operation in 1890. http://www.scotcities.com/govanferry_1853.jpg Meadowside got its name from a steading on the western si...

The Cluthas only lasted another 4 years after the above article was published. They were withdrawn in 1903 when the electric tramway service along both sides of the Clyde made the little steamers unnecessary. From the old maps there seems to have been 11 ferry crossings on the river, although not al...

Came across this 1899 article regarding the Clyde Ferries.

Hi Tombro & Dugald, The Crimean War took place between 1853 and 1856. Coincidently the above map dates from the same period. My first guess was that the street name was changed to Crimea Street to commemorate the war…………….but……….looking at the map (below) from the mid-1890’s, the street is still...

I’ve been following the redevelopment of Clyde Place on the south bank of the Clyde since it began in 2006. The bottom of West Street, where the new footbridge will start, was a boat yard, the Scottish Boat Centre, previously known as Euroyachts. This picture was taken in September 2006, it shows ho...