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Stanley Street School

Postby scallopboy » Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:09 am

(the thread formerly known as "Storm damage or just neglect?")

Some piccies of Stanley Street which would appear to be falling down.

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Postby Targer » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:20 pm

From my memory of the place in the 50's. It looks like either the church or the priests home? The last time I was there in 94 it looked derelict. In fact the whole area looked abandoned.
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Postby viceroy » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:56 pm

This building is what's left of Our Lady and St. Margaret's Church in Stanley St., the presbytery in fact. I'm surprised it hasn't been demolished already considering not only its condition but also its location, which is really just a dead end on the edge of the motorway surrounded by industrial buildings. There used to be a massive primary school right next to it, also called Our Lady and St. Margaret's, which was pulled down a few years ago. Both church and school originally served a densely populated area - now of course not a soul lives there anymore.
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Postby My Kitten » Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:33 pm

AFAIK the school building is being converted to flats, not sure whats happening with the chapel building tho.
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Postby viceroy » Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:52 pm

I'm almost certain Our Lady & St. Margaret's School has been demolished but I think there is another empty school building just across the road which may the one you are thinking of. I'll have a look at the weekend, if I remember. Whatever, it strikes me as a very out of the way place for a residential development.
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Postby Field Marshall Shug » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:37 pm

It just shows how lucky we are on a daily basis. How dead would you be if you had been walking by when that came down? Answer at the bottom of the page.




















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Postby BTJustice » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:54 pm

There is an absolute sheister of VW mechanic that works down a lane near there. Petty it didnt squash his garage and it would save me hearing about another Vdubber ripped off by him.
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Postby Field Marshall Shug » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:02 pm

Is this classic VWs like Beetles and those cool campers and 80s Golfs, or more recent stuff.
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Postby BTJustice » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:21 pm

He can turn his hand to wrecking anything and ripping anybody off but he seems to concentrate on old beetles and campers.
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Postby vinny » Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:42 pm

I thought this building was now used by Social Work services - youth justice, adolescent mental health and such like?
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Postby viceroy » Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:56 pm

vinny wrote:I thought this building was now used by Social Work services - youth justice, adolescent mental health and such like?


According to Google Earth the building which used to be Our Lady & St. Margaret's school is still standing, although I suspect the image is al least 2/3 years old. It looks as if I may have got confused with another - equally large - school building which used to be on the corner of Scotland St. West and Middlesex St. and which was definitely demolished some time ago [think the jannie's house has been left standing]. If I get a chance I'll take a walk round there within the next few days and maybe take some pics.
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Postby scaryman2u » Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:13 pm

The school is still there. I believe it had a rooftop playgroud, the building has been scaffolded at the M8 gable-end for a few years now.

Viceroy, the only other school I can think of in that area is Lambhill St secondary.
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Postby viceroy » Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:36 pm

Here is the Google Earth image I was looking at. Within the rectangle on the right - if you can see it - is Our Lady & St. Margaret's. The rectangle on the left contains the site of the other school on the corner of Scotland St West & Middlesex St.

Scaryman, Lambhill St. Secondary is a bit further west [not in this picture]. It was converted into a nursing home about 10 years ago.

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Postby BTJustice » Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:54 pm

Thats quite an old pic as the scrap yard at the top of the pic has been gone about 4 years. Im pretty sure Our Lady & St. Margaret's suffered a serious fire a few years ago as well.
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Postby viceroy » Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:46 pm

Some pictures of our Lady & St. Margaret's Primary taken at lunchtime today

Looking north towards Milnpark St.
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Looking south towards the M8 motorway
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Boys' entrance
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Girls' entrance
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Gable close-up
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Side and rear view, showing the massive scale of this building, which actually dates from 1910, so it is not Victorian, although you wouldn't really think so looking at it from Stanley St.
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At least part of the building is being utilised although I'm not sure what's in there now.
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