as exhibited in the Lillie Gallery, Aug-Sept 2024. Photograph courtesy Tiu Makkonen
The numeric ‘titles’ are (film development) date YYMMDD, camera body used & frame number
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Dunn Street
More on this building and the Arrol company at:
Canmore (part of Historic Environment Scotland) photographed the intact building a year earlier in 1986; their photographer was not allowed as much artistic freedom.)
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College Lands through Duke Street window
courtesy NLS
. . as surveyed in 1910, the map covers the High Street and what is now referred to as College Lands, the original site of Glasgow University, the area already highly industrialised.
Detail from Ordnance Survey map
Lanarkshire Sheet VI.11, revised survey of 1910
Available, un-annotated, from the National Library of Scotland.
The ‘shaft of light’ is the view through the window.
Duke Street was the north boundary of the North British Railways, later LNER High Street Goods Station; to its south was the London Midland and Scottish Railway’s Goods Station. With two stations and all the associated infrastructure it is no wonder the view through the window of what had been there was complex.
On the right hand side, the location of Barrack Street bridge, 9009 F2 fr26 - is highlighted.
Almost due North of the window is the first location of the Street Level Gallery.
Towards the bottom on the left hand side is the current location of Street Level Photoworks.
The ‘shaft of light’ finishes at Nelson’s Monument on Glasgow Green; of course this location should be more famous as where James Watt had his big idea about the separate condenser steam engine, an event many consider to be the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
This map is also available from Alan Godfrey Old OS Maps as sheet 6.11
The exhibited version of College Lands through Duke Street window was a photo-etching made in 1993
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The East End from Cambuslang
Centre frame are the Whitevale and Bluevale
tower blocks at:
51 Whitevale Street and
109 Bluevale Street
Very useful targets for one commuting from the ‘surburbs’.
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Whitevale, Bluevale from the Cathkin Braes
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Smoke-stack, Whitevale, Bluevale (as exhibited)
Dalmarnock in 1953
. . showing what was once behind those walled corridors created in the 1980s. The photograph has been taken from above Farme Cross looking NW towards the city centre. The yellow asphalt road was my default route to Ingram Street - the early meetings of the unnamed-GPG took place in the Glasgow Print Studio’s premises - and to Street Level’s first home in the High Street.
Image available from:
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Gasometer
Remnants of Gas Works No 1 at Dalmarnock from behind one of those corridor-walls off Dalmarnock Road. This area was much developed as part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.