SAW017935 SCOTLAND (1948). Glasgow, general view, showing West Street and Nelson Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-west. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.

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Title [SAW017935] Glasgow, general view, showing West Street and Nelson Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing south-west. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.
Reference SAW017935
Date 1948
Link Canmore Collection item 1269112
Place name
Parish GOVAN (CITY OF GLASGOW)
District CITY OF GLASGOW
Country SCOTLAND
Easting / Northing 258280, 664490
Longitude / Latitude -4.2641649919827, 55.852777643744
National Grid Reference NS583645

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redmist
Friday 8th of January 2021 02:07:18 PM
the house i lived in

cj
Sunday 27th of September 2020 07:28:16 PM
'VIROL' billboard. During the war, and also for several years afterwards, there were many food shortages. People were only allowed so much of some particularly scarce foods. This was partly because it made things fairer for everyone, but it was also because the rationing was a lot better for us. Every member of every family would have had a ration book and it gave precise details of the amounts of certain types of food that you were allowed during one week All schoolchildren had to have a weekly dose of VIROL, a sweet and sticky extract of malt, in order to make sure they got the proper ration of vitamins; (and you weren't allowed much time to suck the spoon to get all the sticky off it!)

Billy Turner
Wednesday 30th of November 2016 06:50:55 PM
This building in Cook Street along with this part of Cook Street and everything around it...gone.

Billy Turner
Wednesday 3rd of June 2015 10:40:57 PM
Isn't this the junction of Paterson Street and Wallace Street with the Co-op fruit & veg store on the left (later Sher Bros and still standing) The far away building was Co-op offices. I was born facing the Co-op fruit store.

BobbyS
Monday 20th of July 2015 05:32:38 PM
Yes it is on the corner of Wallace/Paterson Street, my mistake, won't let me edit it.

Billy Turner
Wednesday 2nd of September 2015 07:49:06 PM
Building in Wallace Street, not demolished

Billy Turner
Wednesday 3rd of June 2015 10:31:59 PM
8-14 Scotland Street, Engineering Works (Paterson Street view)

Billy Turner
Wednesday 3rd of June 2015 09:49:58 PM
Paterson Street workshop...now buried under the M74

Billy Turner
Wednesday 3rd of June 2015 09:37:48 PM
104 Centre Street, Grain Store

Billy Turner
Wednesday 3rd of June 2015 08:54:51 PM
180a Centre Street, Fire Station

Billy Turner
Wednesday 3rd of June 2015 08:50:08 PM
Centre Street, Grain Store

Billy Turner
Wednesday 3rd of June 2015 08:23:15 PM
Still standing...

Billy Turner
Friday 15th of May 2015 09:53:53 PM
West Street Subway Station

Billy Turner
Friday 15th of May 2015 09:44:55 PM
Railway bridge over West Street

Billy Turner
Friday 15th of May 2015 09:42:57 PM
1-3 Scotland Street, Engine Works

Billy Turner
Friday 15th of May 2015 09:32:33 PM
327-343 Scotland Street, Garages & Workshops

Billy Turner
Friday 15th of May 2015 09:01:26 PM
Bonded warehouse at 401 Scotland Street and Nos 224-6 Seaward Street,

Billy Turner
Friday 15th of May 2015 08:54:27 PM
Centre St School

AlineB
Thursday 18th of July 2013 11:38:43 PM
Attended Centre St School in the fifties, was born and lived in West St until 1955, a happy close knit community.

AlineB
Thursday 18th of July 2013 11:45:44 PM
Nelson street corner of Centre street. Glasgow also got bombed on the same two nights of the clydebank blitz. a parachute bomb landed here between the tenements and a tram. 110 people were killed in this one explosion.

daz
Monday 4th of February 2013 10:47:14 AM
Yes daz you're right,my mother and granny were buried alive in the flattened tenements until rescued.My granny lost everything

tradeston
Wednesday 6th of February 2013 06:04:35 PM

Donald Marshall
Monday 14th of January 2013 02:18:26 AM
Scotland Street School

Donald Marshall
Monday 14th of January 2013 02:16:22 AM
Centre Street Fire Station

almoffat
Thursday 22nd of November 2012 09:10:58 PM
This is not ( B1 ) centre st fire station, it's on the wrong side of the road.

thomasb378
Sunday 13th of October 2013 02:22:48 AM
Almoffat

You're 100 per cent wrong re. the Fire station,I lived at 165 Centre street which looked right into the fire station,I also attended Centre street school for 7 years.

That is most definitely the fire station.

tradeston
Wednesday 13th of November 2013 07:03:52 PM
When I worked in the area from 1977 to 1988 this was the Fire Station - see the following link:



canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/266967/



Google Earth Street View shows the building converted into housing with the bays for the Fire Engines blocked off.



Please "add a pin" to where you think the Fire Station was.

almoffat
Thursday 20th of March 2014 09:25:26 PM
This part of Tradeston Street was blocked off in (I think) the late 1950's. This allowed A & W Smith & Co (later Smith Mirrlees) to expand by building a "New" Bay. I worked there from 1977 'til its closure in 1988.

almoffat
Thursday 22nd of November 2012 09:06:34 PM

almoffat
Thursday 22nd of November 2012 08:59:39 PM
Wallace Street

almoffat
Thursday 22nd of November 2012 08:59:08 PM

almoffat
Thursday 22nd of November 2012 08:58:03 PM
The part of Nelson Street with the annotation tag was actually flattened during the Clydesde blitz in March 1941 with over 120 killed. The low military style buildins was a rest centre for Merchant seamen on the convoys.

tradeston
Saturday 1st of December 2012 01:37:54 AM
Tradeston Street

almoffat
Thursday 22nd of November 2012 08:57:08 PM

almoffat
Thursday 22nd of November 2012 08:56:23 PM

almoffat
Thursday 22nd of November 2012 08:55:51 PM

User Comment Contributions

I grew up in this area in the 50's and 60's,it's pretty much a desert now but then it was a hustling bustling docklands neighbourhood.The river Clyde is at the bottom of the picture and this area was heavily bombed during the Blitz which accounts for a lot of the empty spaces in the picture.I never look at this picture without it bringing back happy memories of friends and family no longer with us.Thank you for a great site.

Ian in Toronto

tradeston
Saturday 25th of August 2012 01:45:59 AM