Welcome to my wee photoblog on Glasgow, where we feature the joys and unjoys of walking and cycling through a fascinating, beautiful and often badly run city. For the blog's origin and an alphabetical list of posts see the 'Introduction' post -
On this fine October evening we are going to take a stroll from St Mungo Avenue in Townhead down the High St, into Duke St, then along Ingram St and into George Square.
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Townhead Badminton Club (see their Facebook page), St Mungo Avenue. |
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One of Glasgow's ubiquitous Ruchill Security signs. |
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Road bends down there on right - and Buchanan St Bus station will be on your left across the road |
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Glowing sandstone red over on the right in St James Rd (where we are now heading) is my old secondary school, City Public - now a resource centre |
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The janitor's house - I remember our janny in the early 60s. This is a listed building and like so many listed buildings in Glasgow is very likely being left to decay so it can be demolished |
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The pleasingly named Nasa Store; get your shopping in before you ascend |
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Old Collins buildings on the right |
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Now in Weaver Street. This was formerly a bank, now an evangelical church. See
http://www.destiny-church.com/
The great Scottish artist Joan Eardley had a studio close by in Parliamentary Rd and did fab portraits some of the kids who lived in Weaver St |
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Now in Cathedral St |
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Strathclyde Uni Campus - up about here used to be Taylor St |
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Student Village |
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These houses were here when I was a child - glad something of the home turf has survived. . . |
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. . .and of course the Royal Infirmary and the Cathedral |
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This used to be wasteland with a bomb shelter in the 50s |
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Now in Collins St where I was brought up. Building now demolished |
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Up ahead in the Rottenrow were flats we called the Tony B (not sure about the origin of the name) |
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Here Townhead Public baths adjoined our home on the 2nd floor. The first Open University Humanities A100 foundation course in the 70s focused on the baths in a TV programme - described them as of great historical importance. So of course the Council demolished the building so they could sell the land to Strathclyde Uni.
The programme showed my mum's two cats on the window ledge - alas, the programme is now also lost like most old OU programmes. Wiped. |
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Back of Provands lordship, the oldest house in Glasgow, on left; we used to jump on its (unhistoric) midden. And just on the right there. . . |
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. . .is the girls' entrance, pretty much all that is left of my old primary school, Townhead Primary. Like a Roman arch in the desert. . . |
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. . .while the top of the boys' arch rests here on the other side of Provands Lordship for some reason. I imagine that in some distant future, an archaeologist will uncover this stone and believe he has found the last resting place of the Glasgow Boys |
Hi Edwin,
ReplyDeleteI work with the SiMY Youth Project that runs out of the Martyrs' Church. I'm looking for more information on the Janitors house in Townhead and im looking at the possibility of getting it refurbished. I Would appreciate any help/info you could give.
Cheers
Barry McLaughlin
Hi Barry! Sorry for delay in replying - just back down from Skye time has suddenly collapsed. Will see what i can suggest tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteSend me an email at
damnyouebay@gmail.com
best
ed