Monday, January 23, 2006


the old Kelvinbridge Station from Hidden Glasgow -- Subway pre- and during modernisation - in colour!

I distinctly remember riding the old Glasgow Subway c. '71; I'd already ridden the tube in London so it seemed toytownish and no big deal to me as a 12 year old but can it really have been so tiny and Edwardian and Brothers Quayesque as this? Through such a Lucozade lens? Flocking on the chairs, pink of the four page evening paper with the soccer and horse results? Old guys carrying tobacco in those rubber wallets? I think it was. Before the patina of industrialisation was powerwashed off the innocent granite, the skylights bricked off, the terraces re-inforced...


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