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11 hours ago, HSS said:

Taylor Haulage still going strong.Based in Wallace St.

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Don't think I've ever seen that before.

Assuming it's Love Street with Albion Street around the corner, when was that wall actually knocked down?

In this picture from pre 1957, the future car park area is still occupied by what looks like large tenements, with the wall from the other picture to the left, presumably.

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16 hours ago, Dirty Sanchez said:

Don't think I've ever seen that before.

Assuming it's Love Street with Albion Street around the corner, when was that wall actually knocked down?

In this picture from pre 1957, the future car park area is still occupied by what looks like large tenements, with the wall from the other picture to the left, presumably.

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According to someone on P+B the lorry has a J reg.This would make it around 1971.

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14 hours ago, Dirty Sanchez said:

Who remembers when this shop front used to have blanked out purple windows?

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I remember it when it was a barber’s.  He had a stuffed crocodile oan the wa’...

i had my last haircut in there and that cost 1/6d.

i’d started Razor-cutting it thereafter, as was the style....

 

...but, since those happy days,  haircutting has been prettty much history.  :(

 

 

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1 hour ago, scrappy coco said:

brown st, fae the top of the gas works

Wow!   I think...  looks like great1950s/60s image of the JNI, the foot of Well Street...

and the vieweast.

 

gerry and Chris Gallen lived in a big house (to my mind] along there - and look at those long back yards....

 

a huge amount of tenements and Buddies  in the wee area around Underwood Street.

 

ta.

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