Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:37 am Post subject: The Heart of Glasgow
I have recently finished re-reading the Jack House book The Heart of Glasgow for about the 10th time and am in the middle of reading The Second City by CA Oakley. I have greatly enjoyed both books with their descriptions and anecdotes of old Glasgow. I can highly recommend them to anyone looking for a fun and easily readable introduction to the history of our city.
I have read many books about the history and growth of Glasgow and most of them discuss the eight oldest streets out of which Glasgow grew. These are:
The books contain many details of the architecture and artefacts of these streets, some of which may still be seen today if you look carefully.
This project will focus on all of the above streets and the intention is to capture the distinct sights and character of each street in both pictures and words. This will build up into a body of work covering the core of the old city.
We do not have to stick rigidly to the specific buildings etc mentioned in the books although I will make a point of posting snippets from the books with relevant photographs.
There will be a degree of overlap with other threads but that only adds to the interest. _________________ "This is like deja vu all over again."
for what it is worth,my father got some books at crimbo purporting to be the real gorbals story.he was born in bridgeton on may day 1929 and brought up in the gorbals .he said the books are full of balloney.
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:17 am Post subject: Drygate
It is difficult to see the clear line of Drygate as it was so I took some photos of the houses which I think follow the line that the street once took.
Has anyone seen any old photos of Drygate? _________________ I had a dream today
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:51 am Post subject: Rottenrow
There isn't much left of the old Rottenrow and certainly nothing which goes as far back as the original street.
Rottenrow Maternity Hospital will have been well known to many Glaswegians of a certain age. It is almost all gone but there are still some remnants of it remaining.
It is possible to walk from Montrose Street through to High Street but you can see that the University grounds have all but taken away the street form.
There is a Garden of Rememberance on the left as you walk toward High Street.
With a great water feature down at the bottom.
After the garden you need to walk to the stairs in front to keep on the line of the old street.
Back down the stairs at the sculpture before you can see that the street is still there at the other end.
Looking back you you get a feel for just how much this street has changed to the point where it has almost disappeared.
And back down toward the Barony Church which is the oldest remaining building at the corner of Rottenrow and High Street.
Like the west end there are some old walls preserves which indicate the last remains of what previously was here.
Cracking Set Alex.
My how its changed. Though the Uni green place is exactly as i remember it... _________________ MY FLICKR
"At least on the internet the pages are not all stuck together"
Right, we have a problem here. Now as you'all know, I'd rather perform surgery on my left nut than piss off Admin, but..........
What we need here is a whole new site section called 'Glasgow's Original Eight Streets' Within this section we should have threads on each of those eight streets and titled as such. This idea is far too big for one thread. It will get pulled this way and that & will never remain true to the original idea. We all of us have masses of info / photographs already on hand to do these threads justice, but just think of the impetus we will have each time we walk these eight streets, we will always be searching for something new, be it a photograph, an article, a reference or an aside, this one will run as long as the site does. At my age I very rarely get excited, but I have a hard on for this one.
HH...Head of marketing, UG.Com.
Pee ess......I belive that Sir Alex has already started us off. _________________ Flickr Pics
Hollowhorn wrote: Pee ess......I belive that Sir Alex has already started us off.
You took that too far If Alex isnt suitably embarassed by that then I am for him. _________________ I was in a Tunnel on another forum and I came out here. fcuk, who shut the door !
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