Yes Neil now that I see the larger map it is clear that the Free Trader was on the site of the Craigbank Shops.
I noticed the Salterland link on some of the other maps although I did find it strange.
There seemed to have been a lot of activity nearer the Hurlet and Barrhead Road if you look at some of the old maps. It is also near here the Jim Currie lived, at the bridge across the Levern on Nitshill Road. I think it is where there was a recent planning application to build a nursing home. There is what looks like a compound on the banks of the Levern on the North side of Nishill Road.
Unfortunately I will have to wait until Monday to post any more of the Booklet "Some Notes on Old Nitshill". I saved it on a pen drive and left it in the Chambers.
There is another booklet with more detail and covers a wider area. I will try and find time to retype it and post some of it up.
Neil Thanks for clarifying the location of the Free Trader Pit. _________________ I had a dream today
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: John Meikle VC MM
Another small extract from the booklet "Some Notes on Old Nitshill
Sergeant Meikle, VC, MM
Another famous Nitshillian was Sergeant Meikle, VC, MM, of the Seaforth Highlanders. On the platform of Nitshill Station stands a memorial to this former railway clerk. John had been a popular lad in the village, well-known for his enthusiastic support of the local junior team, Royal Victoria FC for whom he acted as hamper boy. At sixteen he had given up his job at the Station, and giving his age as eighteen he had enlisted to fight in the Great War which had broken out in 1914.
In July 1918, still under twenty years of age, and now a sergeant, he led an attack on a German machine-gun post, armed only with a pistol and a branch of wood. Though he was killed in the action, his men, inspired by his example were able to complete the destruction of the post. This brave young man was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. _________________ I had a dream today
Those photo's alone are dramatic they look like they were taken on a Holga camera.
All the bit's of dust and scratches gives them a fantastic aged look more than they actually are
The photos also show how grim Priesthill was, and I'm speaking as someone who spent a sizeable chunk of his childhood living there (most of the 1960s).
The ghastly wedge-shaped roof extensions added to most of the tenements were a desperate measure, meant to combat water penetration from the flat roofs of the original build. I don't know how successful they were in this, but they certainly did nothing to enhance the appearance of the flats.
At least when Barratt took over some of the tenements on Linnhead, Ravenscraig and Househillmuir Drives, albeit for private sale, they at least made them a bit more attractive, so it's a shame that some of these flats have subsequently been boarded up and abandoned; I feel sad that the owners have had to resort to this.
Here's a photo I took in 1978-79 featuring the water tower, with some of those tenements which were later 'Barratt-ised' shown:-
The photos also show how grim Priesthill was, and I'm speaking as someone who spent a sizeable chunk of his childhood living there (most of the 1960s).
The ghastly wedge-shaped roof extensions added to most of the tenements were a desperate measure, meant to combat water penetration from the flat roofs of the original build. I don't know how successful they were in this, but they certainly did nothing to enhance the appearance of the flats.
They look awful, but you have to question the wisdom of flat-roof housing in
Scotland in the first place. The flat I live in also had a flat-roof originally.
James H _________________ The blinding obvious is what you showed to me.....
This one is from South Nitshill. I though I should post it for Neil as it shows the Sky Dragon.
I will post more later.
Hey, thanks Alex; that photo must have been taken on a Tuesday evening, as it looks as if the Sky Dragon is closed!
Look forward to the other photos, and I forgot to say how good the LHA Community Housing Manager's photos were; that one of the single women's accomodation is strangely beautiful in it's bleakness.
This one is from South Nitshill. I though I should post it for Neil as it shows the Sky Dragon.
Hey, thanks Alex; that photo must have been taken on a Tuesday evening, as it looks as if the Sky Dragon is closed!
Nitshill isn't a part of Glasgow I knew much about until I discovered it as it lay completely abandonned.
It was a real ghost town and on a very large scale if ever I saw one and probably never will again in my lifetime.
Thankfully I made several trips to photograph it's demise as it's all gone now.
I recognised this photo Alex posted but it looked slightly different when I was there a couple of years ago
January 2005
March 2007
Sky Dragon chinese takeaway is it still in business and was it any good?
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