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peasy23 wrote:Glasgow Council's disposal facility at Polmadie is due for demolition in the next couple of months, it was built in the 50's and the site has been sold off to a private company (Viridor) who will now make a profit from the city's rubbish.
Lawman wrote: Quite a nice looking building, considering it's use.
peasy23 wrote:I've mentioned elsewhere that I've worked in Glasgow Council's Polmadie workshop for 26 years, but we've been shipped out an the building has been demolished in the last few weeks. Here's a then and now from just about a month apart! I'm a few yards out with the second pic.
yokerboy wrote:Thanks Brian.
1.Spiers Hall: remember as a tweenie going to discos there. The building was later set on fire I think around 1973? by some young teenagers drinking in it. Not sure if it was meant, but happened. It was later knocked down. Sad.
2.Yoker Mill Road: older family remembers a cemetery on the grounds of the flat.
3. Yoker WW11 bombs: You are correct as my late mother grew up in Earl Street and has told me about the first bomb falling on Langholm St. I remember seeing as a kid the area of Blawarthall Street which was later rebuild. Now demolished. She also told my about the Yoker distillery being bombed and having a terrible fire. She told me a story about seing a lone germana bomber dropping stick bombs.
Alycidon wrote:
You actually should be standing on the southbound carraigeway of the GSO to get the true shot, bit more dangerous though
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