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Disappearing Glasgow » Introduction
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Lights Out – Gallowgate. The End of the Red Road. The Legacy – Dalmarnock. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell – Plean St. Where Did Everybody Go? The skyline of Glasgow is set to be radically transformed. Glasgow City Council – 2006. By the turn of the 21st century the solution had become the problem. The humble wrecking ball was replaced with multi-million pound demolition contracts, explosives developed by NASA, secured exclusion zones and demolition spectacles that all the community are invite...
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Disappearing Glasgow » Gallowgate
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Lights Out – Gallowgate. The End of the Red Road. The Legacy – Dalmarnock. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell – Plean St. Where Did Everybody Go? Archive photography courtesy of The Flemings. From then on, most of the families moved out, single people and people on housing support moved in along with ex-prisoners after release from Barlinnie. Many of the original tenants moved out, taking the ‘community in the sky’ with them. Cups of tea and chats on the balcony became a thing of the past as ...Maint...
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Disappearing Glasgow » Red Road
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Lights Out – Gallowgate. The End of the Red Road. The Legacy – Dalmarnock. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell – Plean St. Where Did Everybody Go? End of the Red Road. 8220;I always just presumed the Red Road Flats would last forever, but when you see it now in this state you realise its over. It’s not the actual building itself, but its all your memories, that’s where I was brought up, that’s where I was made.”.
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Disappearing Glasgow » Dalmarnock
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Lights Out – Gallowgate. The End of the Red Road. The Legacy – Dalmarnock. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell – Plean St. Where Did Everybody Go? Dalmarnock was forgot about, it’s lain derelict for years and years and no-one bothered about us. You could see money being poured into other areas, but Dalmarnock was always forgot about.”. There is nothing here, it would be hard to imagine more people wanting to come here when there is nothing, but for sure, aye, an apprenticeship would be good. No-one at...
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Disappearing Glasgow » Sighthill
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Lights Out – Gallowgate. The End of the Red Road. The Legacy – Dalmarnock. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell – Plean St. Where Did Everybody Go? Not built to last? They were only supposed to last 40 years anyway,. Said Andy, demolition contractor and Sighthill resident, as we viewed Sighthill and the city from the rooftop of the Fountainwell Terrace block. But it was a great place to grow up, as a child but now it’s a wee bit different. Built in the late 1960s and originally made of ten high-rise sl...
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Disappearing Glasgow » BLOG / NEWS
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Lights Out – Gallowgate. The End of the Red Road. The Legacy – Dalmarnock. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell – Plean St. Where Did Everybody Go? October 16, 2015. A Postcard from Red Road. The Day after Demolition – 13th October 2015. The last two blocks stand defiant with all the destruction around them, as if to say the game’s not quite ‘a bogie’ at least not yet. November 10, 2014. Bohdan Bogdanovic, Serbian Architect, 1994. Comparing Bosnia to Glasgow is probably going to confuse and possibly up...
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Disappearing Glasgow » Portfolio
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Lights Out – Gallowgate. The End of the Red Road. The Legacy – Dalmarnock. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell – Plean St. Where Did Everybody Go? The skyline of Glasgow is set to be radically transformed. End of the Red Road. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell. Where did everybody go?
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Disappearing Glasgow » Plean St
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Lights Out – Gallowgate. The End of the Red Road. The Legacy – Dalmarnock. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell – Plean St. Where Did Everybody Go? From Heaven to Hell. Plean St. Flats. Coming from a room and kitchen, with no hot water, no central heating and no indoor toilet, John was one of the tens of thousands of Glaswegians who were uprooted from the worst slum conditions in Europe to a ‘completely new life’. By the late 1990s it was a different story. The Plean Street flats were now labelled ...
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Disappearing Glasgow » Oatlands
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Lights Out – Gallowgate. The End of the Red Road. The Legacy – Dalmarnock. Not built to last? From Heaven to Hell – Plean St. Where Did Everybody Go? Where did everybody go? Archive photography by Mitchell Curr Snr. In the last days of December 2008, at first light, I jumped a security fence and spent several mornings wandering around the fenced off streets and broken homes of what remained of the Oatlands. Ten years later in 2005 and Oatlands was Scotland’s second largest single community regeneration s...
