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Delmont St Xavier wrote:I had to go over to a depot in Cambusland this morning to pick up a missed delivery and drove back through the East end of the City and through the South side to Govan. I couldn't help but notice how lost I would have been without my sat nav guiding me through a city that I once knew relatively well.
Firstly the new M74 extension eats into areas that I once knew quite well and changes the whole face of the city's landscape then down through London Road and the new 'stadium' that's being built across from Celtic Park changes the outlook of the whole area and then along Ballater/Tradeston and it is hard to believe this is the same place in so many ways. It's when you've passed in the car at 30+mph and suddenly realise that 'there used to be a .... or that used to be there.'
Glasgow's changing for sure, not quite convinced all of it's for the best but for someone like me, not an expatriate but resident who doesn't venture too far into the East and South too often these days, it's quite amazing how vastly different the place is.
The Egg Man wrote:What about the Slater Hogg corner on Byres Rd at University Avenue?
A monostrosity pushed into fill the gap or a tasteful development which is weathering into its surroundings?
The Egg Man wrote:What about the Slater Hogg corner on Byres Rd at University Avenue?
A monostrosity pushed into fill the gap or a tasteful development which is weathering into its surroundings?
Sunflower wrote:The Egg Man wrote:What about the Slater Hogg corner on Byres Rd at University Avenue?
A monostrosity pushed into fill the gap or a tasteful development which is weathering into its surroundings?
I like it better than more recent things (it's 'always' been there from my point of view). But is that pic taken from a flattering angle? At least the floor heights are the same as the neighbour's, and they didn't do a five-into-four number.
RapidAssistant wrote:Personally, looking at it from my own relatively short lifetime's perspective - whenever I watch an old 1980s episode of Taggart, it strikes me how much the city has changed even since then - a lot of derelict sites and housing schemes which are now demolished and redeveloped.
In fact, it must be getting harder for TV and film producers to find those cliched "bad" areas - you know derelict houses with boarded up windows, burnt out cars littering the streets, crime ridden multis and half decayed 1960s shopping precincts as most have fallen victim to the bulldozer.
RDR wrote:They should come to Motherwell, then, plenty of scope here for that sort of background.
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