gap74 wrote:Not sure how I managed to get the street names mixed up but aye, that's the one. Shame the wee bench and flower bed weren't maintained, looked like a nice wee corner to chill on!
I also like Kyle Court. Glasgow volume of Buildings of Scotland says it's from 1965.
Cheers again; I just noticed that all I needed to do was to check your Flicker account! To be honest that really surprises me as it means the demolition and renovation of Main Street (north) was nowhere near complete by this date. I thought the likes of the West Church in the top right of this picture (posted earlier) was a gonner in the early sixties and had no idea the place retained so much as late as 1965. That is another thing I must ask Ed Boyle about because it seems to have been such a nice church and its grounds still lie redundant to this day (the lovely bit of paths, grass, benches and trees on the north east side of the Cambuslang station underbridge). Furthermore the stone in front of the flats facing onto Clydeford Road that I asked about previously isn't there in 1965. Three different people have told me they have read something online about it yet, like me, are unable to remember where.
http://www.edwardboyle.com/EB/cambuslang/Aview.jpgI can't remember seeing a similar building to Kyle Court. It's such a striking structure; particularly as the east and west facing sides are so different. As you drive down from Halfway it is quite an imposing structure looming into view as you pass under the Kirkhill to Newton railway bridge.
By the way would it have been outwith the conceptional boundaries of either local planners or architects to have retained the older part of Cambuslang College; the old Gateside school and previous to that the Gateside Military Hospital/Cambuslang War Hospital into future plans? Letting it go on fire ensuring its destruction only for the land to be empty for seven fucking years then giving the land to yet another supermarket; something I am unconvinced the area needs is short termism at its worst.
http://news.stv.tv/west-central/28951-o ... n-history/On a final Cambuslang note I hadn't heard of Cambuslang; Caldergrove Auxiliary Hospital before:
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/16 ... ove+house/
Cleggy you snickering floppy eared hound when courage is needed, you're ne'er around.
Those medals you wear on your moth-eaten chest should be there for bungling at which you are best.