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The Egg Man wrote:Safedem have moved on-site of their latest job, sealing off a 10 storey slab block on Glasgow’s St Vincent Street between Elderslie St and Elliot St in readiness for its demolition.
The fourth phase of the ongoing regeneration of the Anderston Estate, led by Sanctuary Scotland, the project will see the historic street pattern reinstated and hundreds of new flats built in line with a master plan prepared by Mast Architects, better integrating the area with the surrounding city.
It follows the delivery of 109 new apartments and maisonettes designed by Cooper Cromar architects, clad in buff brick and rising to no more than six storeys.
Buzby wrote:Apropos the YMCA / David Naismith Tower blowdown in October - there is another 'first' worth remembering. The roof of this block was the location of Glasgow's very first cellular (mobile phone) base station. It required the lifting of a pre-built portacabin containing all the electronics by crane. Organised by BT onbehalf of TSCR Ltd (Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio) trading as 'Cellnet' - it was linked to Glasgow's Pitt Street exchange by microwave, and on to Manchester where the Cellnet control centre was located.
In 1983 the service went live in Glasgow and Edinburgh, but only for testing purposes - the rest of the year was used providing infill for the analogue servce that used the 900MHz band. The Tower was both a boon and a curse, It's height meant a mobile in the east of Glasgow could connect to the network and make calls, but as the first BTS (Base Transmitting Station) it had a capability of handling just 16 concurrent calls. If all channels were in use, users got the 'busy' tone until a channel became free.
Racal Vodafone were concentrating in covering the SE of England so they did not arrive until the following year - but whilst the location of Logie Baird's first TV demonstrations in Scotland still exists (MacLellan Galleries), Glasgow will lose its first cellular footsteps in the city in October 2015. Yes, the radio equipment has already been removed, but for all that, I was always comforted by knowing the tower was keeping me connected.
Lawman wrote:Red Road tomorrow, then.
Is anybody going for a look? Where would be good vantage point?
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