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streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject:

Gorbals St, west side south of Carlton Place. September 1973

Old Rutherglen Rd, looking west from near Hospital St to Dunmore St. April 1973

streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject:

Dunmore St, looking east from Portugal St to Old Rutherglen Rd. April 1973

Same view, after the demolition of Dunmore St. July 1973

streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:58 pm Post subject:

Norfolk St, north side, after the demolition of the southwest corner of the Cross. November 1973

Norfolk St, north side, west of the Cross. April 1973

streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject:

Buchan St and Norfolk St. November 1973

Norfolk St at Buchan St. April 1973

streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject:

Oxford St, north side between Buchan St and Gorbals St. Scott’s shoe factory again. September 1973

Buchan St and Oxford St. Gorbals School. April 1973

streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject:

Oxford St and Buchan St. This charming little building, by James Sellars in 1884, belonged to the Glasgow Medical Mission, who dispensed from it much-needed medical services to the poor of the Gorbals. The Mission was in funds at the time, having sold their previous premises to a railway company for a good price, so could afford to splash out a bit. September 1973

Oxford St, looking west from Buchan St. April 1973

streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject:

Buchan St, looking south from Carlton Place. April 1973

Buchan St, west side. This unusual (unique?) tenement bore the words ALBION PLACE on the façade, in large elaborately carved stone letters in the Gothic style. September 1973

streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject:

Carlton Place, with Gorbals School and Gorbals Parish Church (David Hamilton, 1810). The church tower once carried a slender elegant steeple 174 feet high, but it was lost to a lightning strike some time in the 19th century. Demolition of the tenement and school was imminent. September 1973

Albion Place and the church in December 1973.

streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject:

Albion Place. December 1973

Oxford St and Buchan St. A Baptist Church. November 1973

streapadair · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject:

Buchan St, south of Oxford St. The central building here was a brass works built in 1890 for John Wilson & Son, brass and bell founders. September 1973

Oxford St, south side east of Nicholson St. September 1973