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Glasgow Council's disposal facility at Polmadie is due for demolition in the next couple of months, it was built in the 50's and the site has been sold off to a private company (Viridor) who will now make a profit from the city's rubbish.

Rudolf Hess crash site then and now by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

peasy23 wrote:Glasgow Council's disposal facility at Polmadie is due for demolition in the next couple of months, it was built in the 50's and the site has been sold off to a private company (Viridor) who will now make a profit from the city's rubbish.

Quite a nice looking building, considering it's use.

Lawman wrote: Quite a nice looking building, considering it's use.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder right enough.

I've mentioned elsewhere that I've worked in Glasgow Council's Polmadie workshop for 26 years, but we've been shipped out an the building has been demolished in the last few weeks. Here's a then and now from just about a month apart! I'm a few yards out with the second pic.

peasy23 wrote:I've mentioned elsewhere that I've worked in Glasgow Council's Polmadie workshop for 26 years, but we've been shipped out an the building has been demolished in the last few weeks. Here's a then and now from just about a month apart! I'm a few yards out with the second pic.

They're both excellent panoramas. And a good subject. Ta.

A wee Half Cheated Past Present


Today

Thanks Brian

RE PAST PRESENT VOL 2.

1.Speirs Hall: I remember going to some discos there in the early 1970s. I rememeber the hall being a bit run down. ProbablY around 1973? There was a fire it it( rumoured to be due to young guys drinking in the building). Sad loss.
2. Yoker boudary pictures: older members of my family remember a cemetery where the Mill Street flats are now.

Thanks Brian.

1.Spiers Hall: remember as a tweenie going to discos there. The building was later set on fire I think around 1973? by some young teenagers drinking in it. Not sure if it was meant, but happened. It was later knocked down. Sad.

2.Yoker Mill Road: older family remembers a cemetery on the grounds of the flat.

3. Yoker WW11 bombs: You are correct as my late mother grew up in Earl Street and has told me about the first bomb falling on Langholm St. I remember seeing as a kid the area of Blawarthall Street which was later rebuild. Now demolished. She also told my about the Yoker distillery being bombed and having a terrible fire. She told me a story about seing a lone germana bomber dropping stick bombs.

yokerboy wrote:Thanks Brian.

1.Spiers Hall: remember as a tweenie going to discos there. The building was later set on fire I think around 1973? by some young teenagers drinking in it. Not sure if it was meant, but happened. It was later knocked down. Sad.

2.Yoker Mill Road: older family remembers a cemetery on the grounds of the flat.

3. Yoker WW11 bombs: You are correct as my late mother grew up in Earl Street and has told me about the first bomb falling on Langholm St. I remember seeing as a kid the area of Blawarthall Street which was later rebuild. Now demolished. She also told my about the Yoker distillery being bombed and having a terrible fire. She told me a story about seing a lone germana bomber dropping stick bombs.

Hi yoker boy

To the best of my knowledge and fairly extensive research there has never been a cemetery or burial ground in the Yoker area, up until the opening of the Kilbowie/Dalnotter cemeteries in Clydebank, The deceased of Yoker were routinely buried in Renfrew Churchyard or Arkleston - funeral cortèges were given free passage on the Ferry at one stage, although there was a court case in the 19th century as it was disputed whether free passage was allowed on the return journey!!

Clydebank dog track once stood where the Yokermill / Glasgow Road flats stood, prior to this it was a collection of small cottages

BTJustice wrote:
Rudolf Hess crash site then and now by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

You actually should be standing on the southbound carraigeway of the GSO to get the true shot, bit more dangerous though

Alycidon wrote:

BTJustice wrote:
Rudolf Hess crash site then and now by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

You actually should be standing on the southbound carraigeway of the GSO to get the true shot, bit more dangerous though

I did think I was risking a fine and 3 points on my artistic license with that shot but with a muddy field full of angry looking cows I chose not to go off road and onto the M/way.

Hi Brian,
Thanks for this reply. Maybe the older relative is confused abouth a graveyard at The Yoker/Clydebank boundary. I don't remember it being a bit younger. I do remember Social Security building being about there,looking like an old prefab type building!

Re: Annielands Road. I remember these house being delirect and running through the gardens down to the railway line when a kid. Yes Knocked down to build the shopping centre.

yokerboy,the social security building stood between hamilton st and napier st next to laidlaws garage.