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Location: Old streets
Discussion: Expressway?
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 TheBigYin |
Expressway?
Apr 7 2008, 1:09 PM EDT Just noticed on this old map that it looks like a planned expressway right through Springburn, but it does't actually follow the route of the actual expressway they built around 1980 - according to this map - it leaves the bottom half alone (from Flemington St / Fire station downwards) but pretty much slices thruogh the top half behind where the Co-op used to be. What was actually built was an expressway which chopped the bottom half away completely (including my street!) but left the top half untouched (as it is now), with main road traffic routed to the left and right of the town around what was Atlas St onto a flyover ramp along the route of Edgefauld Rd. If this is a genuine town plan, then it means that the destruction was routed away from the Carleston St / Kay St area sometime. Still a bloody mess, though. Do you find this valuable? |
 buntygal |
RE: Expressway?
Apr 7 2008, 2:12 PM EDT James if you have a look on Multimap you'll see the route that the Expressway takes. Theeis also a Springburn Way which went more or less the route of the Old Springburn Road with a flyover going from basically Edgefauld Road over to Hawthorn Street, think that's about right. You're right a lot still remains but the heart was taken out to build not only the bottom part of Springburn Way but a new church , a shopping centre and a health centre and a sports centre. My street Queenshill Street went as did half of Wellfield Street and Northcroft Road. to fund that lot. Most of Kay Street went also that's where the new Sports Centre is. Another good place to check on what Springburn looks like to-day is Glasgow Guide..it's on the links page on the Nav Bar. Do you find this valuable? |
 Berylbeattie |
RE: Expressway?
Apr 8 2008, 5:51 PM EDT Not much good at map reading but I sense a couple of inaccuracies. Barclay Street, (still there) is not mentioned and whilst Vulcan Street and Queenshill Street are featured, there is no mention of Blenheim Street and yet there does appear to be an unnamed street in approx the right location? Incidentally, met a recent visitor to Springburn who told me the name Vulcan Street had been retained. although the residents these days live in nice modern accommodation. Looks like another late night for yours truly who now feels like a wee wander along our Springburn Road of old and thank you, Buntygal, I will look at the Glasgow Guide you thoughtfully mentioned. By the way, my household chores were to clean all the boots and shoes, polish the surrounds in the sitting room, and the wooden fireplace with its rich dark green tiles, and the clean the brasses and silver (a wee silver bowl I loved), and then wash the windows (we were three up, so how hazardous was that). That would have been on a Friday. On any other day, there would have been the kitchen linoleum to scrub and the ashes to take down to the midden. Meantime my Mother would have been washing and filling the pulley with immaculate whiter than white linen, if it did not happen to her turn of the drying green, it was wrung out on the Acme ringer in the wee scullery and then hung up on the pulley.. A bright and cheerful fire would warm the room and the bed recess where I slept whilst my parents would sleep in the bed recess in the sitting room. Nobody thought it strange that essentials like your grandpa's old wardrobe and massive dresser (inherited) were kept in the hallway. We must not have had so many clothes in those days.... Do you find this valuable? |
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buntygal |
RE: Expressway?
Apr 8 2008, 6:17 PM EDT Beryl not sure what that map really is or when it was drawn up. Although I didn't upload it on the site but I have seen a copy which is in a paperback book called Villages of Glasgow (2 volumes Vol i features Springburn) but sadly the author seemed only to use this as a guide to the layout of Springburn and no notation as to when the map was drawn up or indeed any credit as to who drew it.. The description of your chores are no doubt very similar to a lot of us..I'm going to copy and paste to the Home and Games section ...see you there. Bunty Do you find this valuable? |