by marshfield » Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:40 pm
Hi I'm also new so I might be repeating the story about the street of shops under the Central Station, from 1946 until 1978 my family worked in the Hotel and as a small child and then through the years I spent a lot of time there.
The Hotel was built to service the needs of the people of Glasgow which at that time was one of the leading cities of the world and had to provide superior services and all the functions that went with that, and of course then it was an upstairs and downstairs society
There is a little door to the right of the main entrance in Hope Street, this was the staff entrance, and on going in and down two flights of stairs you come across what does look like a street of shops on either side, in fact these are the bakers, butchery, greengrocery, fishmongery, patisseries, elecs, plumbers, painters, laundry, and repaires everything that was needed for the hotel to function independently,
these were built when the hotel was erected. and did in fact look like little shops, having windows on to the corrider that ran north to south
this was one of the few 5 star hotels in britain and everything was made or produced to a very high standard. The deliveries were made through an entrance in Union Street under the station to the hope street side