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 -
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| Today is 10 November 2010 - we are heading down Anniesland Rd to walk west along Dumbarton Rd to Yoker |
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| Anniesland Rd (like Dumbarton Rd stretching east there) is quite long; for Anniesland see http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/03/anniesland.html |
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| The area we are in is West Scotstoun, and we are turning right under the bridge |
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| And first right under the bridge is a building being demolished at the top of Plean Street |
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| Looking back down to Dumbarton Rd |
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| Nice curvy deco-ish building |
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| The crane pecked at the building like an extremely lethargic predatory bird |
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| Looking west |
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| 1967 Dumbarton Rd; an evocative address. These curved buildings were erected in 2007 for Loretto Housing Association. See http://www.clydewaterfront.com/projects/renfrew-riverside--scotstoun/housing/1967_dumbarton_road |
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| The beast has an implacable eye as well as hungry jaws |
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| The flats had to be pecked away, as it wasn't safe to blow them up as happened at Sighthill. See http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/sighthill-towers-after-fall.html |
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| Satellite dishes reaching for the Sky |
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| Went down to take close-up pics but it is private land and was ordered off by a security guard. Security guards in Glasgow are commonly like Hobbes' definition of life - 'nasty, brutish and short' - but this guy was OK |
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| Desirable dwellings going up |
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| Took a swing left down Belldale Rd to look at the Clyde |
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| Heading back up to main drag |
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| Yoker Park |
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| The WWI memorial |
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| Heading west again |
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| Dappled light |
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| Looking back |
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| Yoker Ferry Rd on left - panorama stitch not too bad but you can see one of the joins |
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| Kelso St straight up heading towards Garscadden (Donald Dewar's old constituency) |
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Yoker Community Campus and Resource Centre. See and |
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| Yoker Evangelical Church. People talk of the decline of religion, yet the various evangelical churches seem to be doing fine |
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| Bouverie St - where Marge Simpson's sisters emigrated from? |
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| Yoker Parish Church |
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| A fine home to let |
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| The Lovat |
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| You are now leaving Glasgow |
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| Looking back into Glasgow |
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| Welcome to Glasgow |
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| Welcome to West Dunbartonshire |
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| The Boundary Bar. This is where, in early 2010, Steven Purcell, the then leader of the Labour council in Glasgow - the most powerful politician in the west of Scotland - came to buy his cocaine. See http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics-news/2010/04/04/former-council-chief-steven-purcell-s-cocaine-party-with-dealers-86908-22161247/ Possibly Mr Purcell thought that as the pub is a few feet outside the city boundary the deal wouldn't count. See also http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/10/paddys-market-last-day.html and |
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| Looking into Glasgow |
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| Looking out of Glasgow |
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| Walking back in. . . |
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| . . .we turn right and head down Greenlaw Rd |
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| Note signpost: for the Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond head left. folks |
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| A spent rocket |
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| This is - let us remind ourselves - the Clyde path for cyclists and walkers. Not so Bonnie Banks |
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| Renfrew Ferry |
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| Before ploughing through the debris on the path we take a short walk back westward |
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| The Titan Crane towering over Clydebank |
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| Looking east into the city |
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| An Emirates jet taking off from Glasgow Airport |
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| A pair of Clyde swans |
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| Pre-used toilet seat going spare |
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| Swan on right kept giving me glances - have nothing for you my dear |
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| There used to be a house on the right like that one - burned down by vandals |
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| Turning left here to see the Renfrew Ferry |
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| Signpost No 7 |
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| Apologies for the finger-like blur at the top left which appears in a few of these pics - the camera strap! |
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There has been a Clyde ferry at this point since the 14th century. See and Clydelink now operate the (unsubsidised) Renfrew Ferry service with a small 12-seater boat. There is really no excuse for the council not doing something about the clatty environment in which the ferry has to operate. The Renfrew Ferry should be a tourist attraction, and would be so in any other major city - this is all wrong. |
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| The Ferry skipper |
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| Heading back up Yoker Ferry Rd |
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| Back into Dumbarton Rd |
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| Businesses Open as Usual |
Guerrilla gardeners are badly needed in Glasgow. I think the movement started in a run-down area of New York hence spelling.
ReplyDeleteYou've listed an area as East Dunbartonshire but it's West D. daaaahling, big difference ;-)
What is the snowman/lighthouse building in the second last photo, can one live there ;-)
ReplyDeleteOhh well spotted Al have changed - the photo says West so of course I typed East typical.
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ReplyDelete'What is the snowman/lighthouse building in the second last photo, can one live there ;-)'
It's part of a ship no idea what it does!
Radar antenna it spins too!!!! great tourist attraction �� also Clyde flooded at time of photos taken hence messy chaos !!�� Yoker is full of great places to visit !!!!!
DeleteThe second last picture is of a Type 45 Destroyer
ReplyDeleteSurroundings at yoked ferry disgusting - embarrassed to be a yoker resident as this is the first impression of yoker from people getting off the ferry from Renfrew - council need a kick up the arse !!!
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