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oddjobby wrote:I've always loved that building. I was concerned for a while there that it would end up falling down as it was so neglected. I'd love one of the flats in this beautiful 'west end' building ::): ::):
Dexter St. Clair wrote:oddjobby wrote:I've always loved that building. I was concerned for a while there that it would end up falling down as it was so neglected. I'd love one of the flats in this beautiful 'west end' building ::): ::):
Merchant City , my good man.
Dexter St. Clair wrote:The flats at the old Springburn Fire Station were originally advertised as part of the Merchant City. I knew the estate agent and a shade of shame illuminated his face for ten seconds before he advised me that he did also the "north end of".
RDR wrote: ...............
How and why it came into the health board hands, I don't know, but for years it was the GRI's maintenance department role to keep the clock at the right time, which it never was, as believe it or not they used to get regular letters complaining if it wasn't.
The Egg Man wrote:RDR wrote: ...............
How and why it came into the health board hands, I don't know, but for years it was the GRI's maintenance department role to keep the clock at the right time, which it never was, as believe it or not they used to get regular letters complaining if it wasn't.
From the OP "In 1934 it was purchased by the adjacent Glasgow Royal Infirmary, for conversion into an Out-patients' Department. "
The Egg Man wrote:c£400,000 doesn't seem like a lot for the building. That sum wouldn't buy the same area of cleared ground in anything which might be thought of as the 'real' West End. I can see the ground floor being a good location for a coffee shop. Long term hospital patients long to get out of the building and away from the associated smells. A coffee shop just about on the grounds could be just the place.
RDR wrote:
Sorry I missed that.
Anyway, the clocktower, as all who worked at GRI, knew it, was in some complicated way tied in with the development of the multistory carpark that was built beside it. That in itself is some complicated PFI deal, which is why GRI, is the only hospital site in Glasgow they can still charge parking for, as neither the Health Board or Cab Sec have any say over it.
RDR wrote:I think the work to make the clocktower wind and watertight was originally part of that deal.
GCC planning also made it more complicated by demanding the car park had in someway to match in with the clocktower at that end.
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