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peasy23 wrote:It's a place that many people will be unaware of unless they have used the civic amenity facilities over the years. The council in their wisdom have sold most of the site off to Viridor, who will demolish the current transfer station and vehicle workshops to build a new all singing and dancing facility of their own. http://www.viridor.co.uk/our-developments/glasgow-rrec.
As a result the transfer station and workshops have closed, with the workshop shutting up shop on Friday there, I've spent 26 years working in there and it's been an emotional week, not for the loss of the building, but more for the memories of the people I've worked with in there over the years, many no longer with us. I took a few pics on Friday, I'll try and get some of the transfer station too but fear it may be too late as it will probably be fenced off by Monday night when I go back to work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99906229@N08/sets/72157634925682915/
BTJustice wrote:When I went down I used to get sent up the ramp as I would either be in my camper or in the beetle with the trailer on the back.
I remember feeling sorry for the guy who had to sit up there with the smell and the rats but there was a bit of a thrill when there was no rubbish in the drop and you got to throw breakables onto the concrete floor below and see it smash into a million bits.
shelvoke80 wrote:Hi,thanks for posting the photos of the general workshops.I too remember working there years ago when I was an apprentice.My memories are of some of the characters who were employed at the time,lots of laughs and some work done.We used to clock in under the foreman's offices which were upstairs at 07:45 but you then did not start until 07:55 as this was allowed to enable you to cross over to the amenity block to change into your overalls and cross back over the road.In reality very few people did as they preferred to have a seat and us apprentices would gather round someone's newspaper to get a read whilst the old timers would set about picking horses for the day's racing.I can well remember the lunchtime rush by guys who liked a drink to get over the fence onto Polmadie Road and into the Spur Bar for their daily beer and whisky.To help them get back into work,someone had forced the spars on the railing apart so the older ones could squeeze through.Like everyone else who has worked in these places we are left with good memories of our time and the people we worked with.
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