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aland wrote:thought they had started work on this as I am sure when passing on the M8 last sunday there was scaffolding up at the waterloo st end... perhaps not
yoker brian wrote:bAzTNM wrote:The one at Waterloo Street is always crawling with smackheads. Tried to take a few photos one Sunday morning. Was particular nervous doing so. They all seem to be coming out of the shops (well it looks like shops) area.
Do you ever get out around the city without seeing raving loonies, junkies, hermits or crazy Chinese triad types? .
bAzTNM wrote:You can't really go too far with it. You can only walk from underneath the bridge on Edinburgh Road until you get to the next bridge and then you are faced with psycho Chinese people and stinging nettles that engulf the place. I'd love to walk it, if they managed to clear it all up.
RapidAssistant wrote:.The third bridge to nowhere was created when they flattened the Albany Hotel five years ago. Although it was probably hardly used anyway after the bus station and all the shops within the Anderston Centre disappeared.
RapidAssistant wrote:Well I did a bit of digging around - it turns out the history of the Charing Cross Podium is also intertwined with that of the Elmbank Gardens complex (aka the Charing Cross Tower). Elizabeth Willamson's book Glasgow page 214;
In a nutshell, it turns out that the Elmbank Gardens complex was intended to be much much larger than it actually turned out to be, and would have made use of the podium. Here's the link.
http://books.google.com/books?id=F2gpuP ... 14&f=false
Fatman wrote:RapidAssistant wrote:Well I did a bit of digging around - it turns out the history of the Charing Cross Podium is also intertwined with that of the Elmbank Gardens complex (aka the Charing Cross Tower). Elizabeth Willamson's book Glasgow page 214;
In a nutshell, it turns out that the Elmbank Gardens complex was intended to be much much larger than it actually turned out to be, and would have made use of the podium. Here's the link.
http://books.google.com/books?id=F2gpuP ... 14&f=false
The Anderston Centre was also truncated. Maybe someone was trying to tell Colonel Seifert something!
RapidAssistant wrote:Then in the early 90s they built the Hilton on an isolated part of the Anderston redevelopment site, and as a lovely a hotel as it is - it is completely cut off from anywhere else, it's an absolute pig to find your way to by car. Staying at the hotel and want to find somewhere else for a drink or an alternative restaurant? You have to walk miles or take a taxi. Hardly joined up thinking.
Josef wrote:RapidAssistant wrote:Then in the early 90s they built the Hilton on an isolated part of the Anderston redevelopment site, and as a lovely a hotel as it is - it is completely cut off from anywhere else, it's an absolute pig to find your way to by car. Staying at the hotel and want to find somewhere else for a drink or an alternative restaurant? You have to walk miles or take a taxi. Hardly joined up thinking.
Away with you. The Buttery is literally across the road, and it's less than ten minutes walk to Charing Cross and more pubs and restaurants than you can shake a stick at.
The Egg Man wrote:The Hilton staff don't exactly encourage guests to leave the place at night, either.
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