The Strathbungo Society tried to buy it from BT for a defib, library or whatever, but were told someone else had beaten them to it. Nothing ever happened though. Yours for £1, if I recall.
So does anyone recall Scatchards, either in Strathbungo or at Kelvinhall?
Between 1900 and 1905 the business passed to William J Moffat, who continued the chemist business, but also ran Strathbungo Post Office from the premises. He lasted until the mid 1940s when Scatchard took over.
The long history arose because it was a chemist from the time the building, then known as Bute Terrace, was first occupied c 1872-3. The first chemist was John Fenwick, half-brother of Dr William Fenwick of 9 Moray Place, about whom I have written before.
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Kelvin Street in the old Transport Museum, with a car parked outside Scatchards and lots of glass jars in the window. Image from j_on_tour's blog, https://jayzspaze.blogspot.com/2015/09/
Scatchards was open from the late 1940s. I'm unsure when it closed, but the business had such a long history that the shop contents were donated to Glasgow Museums and it re-opened on the Kelvinhall Transport Museum's Kelvin Street (1988-2010). I don't think it made it to the new Riverside Museum.
Partly dismantled shopfront reveals faded sign reading Chemist, K Scatchard, Opticians
A new ghost sign revealed in Strathbungo yesterday, as the old Marchtown shop front at 741 Pollokshaws Road is replaced. It is for K Scatchard, Chemists & Opticians.
#strathbungo #glasgow #ghostsign #glasgowghostsigns #glasgowhistory
Window display: birbs above and cats below.
Window display: possibly the Great and Mighty Oz?
Window display: flowers.
Window display: someone climbing down a ladder.
The annual unsystematic selection of pics from Strathbungo Window Wanderland.
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It was just a small fire with smoke from one shop when I went past around 4:30. Boy did that escalate.
If nothing else, Batman Returns...
The car-free streets...
Just started reading Cory Doctorow's book. How topical. #enshittification
This is outrageous. Council took public arts money to set this up, encouraged organisations in at affordable rents, then pulled the rug from under them.
Got my ticket 😁
Indeed, but I see there's a nice collection of photos, including the interior, on trove.scot. Meanwhile my own account of its history & residents is here
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This is the doctor's surgery extension for Dr Thomas Forrest, by John Bennie Wilson, built c1901, and originally numbered 81 Nithsdale Road. But at least he made a faithful reproduction of Thomson's original so you barely notice.
An interesting choice of perspective, such that nothing in the photo is the work of Greek Thomson, nor did he live in it.
But does that simply reflect an ageing population, i.e. there are more elderly drivers than there used to be? Also, are crashes just down to eye sight issues? Is it also down to mental acuity and reaction times worsening? Eye sight tests don't measure that.
Kodak DC40, large and not cool digital camera, size of a book
Hold my beer. My first digital camera c1995. I still have it but don't know what pics are on it as I don't have the latest PC technology to access them. Anyone have a PC with Windows 3.1 and a serial port?
Smart use of Goad's fire maps!
An excellent education in mud.
I thought he had been stopped due to a music rights dispute. Is he back on?
A yellow and brown Hamilton-designed double-decker Leeds tram, preserved at Crich Tramway Village. Source: Jim Dignan/CTV
He later became general manager at Leeds tramways, where he remained for 23 years.
You can read his story here
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He became traffic manager at the tramways, and then assistant general manager, and was involved in the electrification of the trams and the building of Pinkston power station. I presume his initial interest was in the care of the thousands of horses used by the Corporation.
Portrait of JB Hamilton in later years, grey hair, neatly trimmed moustache, suit. He was general manager of Leeds trams for 23 years, until his death
John Baillie Hamilton was a Glasgow-trained veterinary surgeon who lived at 57 Marywood Square in Strathbungo.
He devised a novel way of reducing the suffering of horses.
He electrified the Glasgow Corporation Tramways.
Sorry, must have been too long ago.
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As Rutherglen begins its 900 year celebrations, I note 57 Marywood Square, Strathbungo, was home to William Murray, owner of the immense Caledonian Pottery, once Rutherglen's largest employer, but now buried under the M74.
A new house history on BygoneBungo.
#Rutherglen900 #Strathbungo #Pottery
Love a bit of local history. If you count Canada as local.
Why do we even have these in Strathbungo's streets?
If not, you can read the full story about how, to quote a C20th politician, “Australian democracy was born at Eureka”.
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