Past Present Vol 2

[Timchilli]

Crow Road Station, May 1958



Crow Road Station, August 2006



Tim

[cybers]

I knew i had a wee pic of it somewhere, no present for this one...sorry

Demolished in 1959 Duke st prison.

Here's a recent pic of what's left of the prison.....



are the wee holes you can see the bullet holes from the IRA prison van ambush of 1921? I was never sure although I read somewhere that they were

Don't know about the bullet holes in the prison wall as i was told that happened at the corner of Bellgrove and Duke Street as the van had turned onto Duke St. Could be wrong as it was related by my grandfather who liked a wee shammy or 3 from the sarry heid.
Though he also showed me a cannon ball that is embedded in that same stretch of wall so could not have been pissed all the time.

[TC1]

1921
A Police motor-van, conveying a senior Irish Republican Army officer, from the Central Police Court to Duke Street Prison, was attacked by 30 armed men in Cathedral Square. In the first volley of shots, Inspector Robert Johnston was killed and Detective Sergeant George Stirton was wounded as he and another detecive returned fire. The attempt to release the prisoner failed. Thirteen men were later arrested and tried for the crimes, but they were found not guilty.

from :http://gphs1800.tripod.com/20th.Century.html

[glasgowken]

Partick West bridges.

1950's.


2007. I should have been standing at the traffic light for a better match

[YokerBloke]

Anniesland Road, Scotstounhill, circa 1900



Anniesland Road, Scotstounhill, 2007



Tim

I would never have guessed that location if it wasn't for the present shot.
First time I've ever seem a before for this area, always wondered about it. I can vaguely remember the the Shopping centre being built when I first started school (Bankhead). The individual shops were bare and boarded up with wood.

[Monument]

Not sure of the date and unfortunately there are no buses in the picture, but probably late 1960's.



2007, count the missing urns

[james73]

Partick West bridges.

1950's.

Thats excellent - I've seen very few pics of those bridges from street level.




James H

[HollowHorn]

Yes, I noticed that on Flickr earlier, vandals?

[ninatoo]

I noticed a couple of the celtic cross type grave markers appear to be gone now too.

Nina

[crusty_bint]

There has been a team of wee guys going round for the past half dozen or so months running amock ...polis are too slow to catch em...

[Graham]

There has been a team of wee guys going round for the past half dozen or so months running amock ...polis are too slow to catch em...

Next time you them, phone the polis and tell them one of the wee barstewards dropped a crisp packet - they'll be up there with a 50 quid fixed penalty ticket quicker than you can say "money grabbing bastids"

[Fat Cat]

There has been a team of wee guys going round for the past half dozen or so months running amock ...polis are too slow to catch em...

The council got rid of some of these headstones, citing health and safety.

[Graham]

There has been a team of wee guys going round for the past half dozen or so months running amock ...polis are too slow to catch em...

The council got rid of some of these headstones, citing health and safety.

Yeah, including the one for my ancestors' family plot - now I can't find the grave

[Timchilli]

I would never have guessed that location if it wasn't for the present shot.
First time I've ever seem a before for this area, always wondered about it. I can vaguely remember the the Shopping centre being built when I first started school (Bankhead). The individual shops were bare and boarded up with wood.

It's a travesty. I've got a few postcard views of these houses dated 1915 and they were incredibly ornate. Do you have any idea if they were pulled down because of structural faults? All I can find in the Mitchell are the planning papers for the shopping centre, which don't specify - all they say is that "the area requires immediate retail space". Dicks.

This Ordnance Survey map from 1895 shows Anniesland Road, with the Scotstounhill to Garscadden railway line running parallel to the north. The villas are - at this point in time - the last residential structures on the western-most boundary of Scotstounhill, as Anniesland Road curves towards the Clyde to meet Dumbarton Road. Everything to the left of Crescent Road was pulled down in the late 1960s to accommodate the hideous Knightswood Shopping Centre.



Do you remember anything further about this area, YB?

Tim

[crusty_bint]

There has been a team of wee guys going round for the past half dozen or so months running amock ...polis are too slow to catch em...

The council got rid of some of these headstones, citing health and safety.

Yeah, including the one for my ancestors' family plot - now I can't find the grave

It's all very well ladelling the Council with 100% culpability but if you don't maintain your house and it falls down you only have yourself to blame. Same goes with grave-furniture.

Anyway this topics going quickly off-track, take it >here< if you want to continue in this vein.

Ta