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Bygone Bungo
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Documenting local history in and around Strathbungo, Glasgow. Look up your house or just read the blog at bygone.bungoblog.com
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · 19d
Did my first ever #Strathbungo walking tour for Glasgow Doors Open Day in conjunction with @sghetorg.bsky.social and The Strathbungo Society. Tours are fully subscribed but it was good fun and I might do it again sometime. Watch this space.

#GDODF25 #gdodf #glasgowheritage
Me pontificating nonsense to the tour participants in Regent Park Square
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Aug 19
Is an interactive sandpit one with performing fleas? See, not alone.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Aug 13
At least they preserved the south portico.
Post modernist red lattice window and portico on an otherwise rather plain office block.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Aug 7
More on the fascinating industrial and sporting history of Titwood Road and the long-lost Moray Park here:
Moray Park, Strathbungo - Bygone Bungo
The history of Moray Park, Strathbungo. Now forgotten, but once a hive of football, rounders, shinty and tennis.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Aug 7
But for Strathbungo at least, it didn't last long. Half were lost to the re-alignment of Titwood Road in 1921, and the rest were replaced by new housing (Vennard / Thorncliffe / Carswell Gardens) by 1928.
Daily Record - Wednesday 09 February 1921. Over 100 members of Moray Park Allotments Association are under notice to quit their plots as the ground is required for making new roads
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Aug 7
More followed in 1918, including 10 acres in Strathbungo, and sites at Kilmarnock Road, Hamiltonhill, Bellahouston Park, Whiteinch and Shettleston.
Daily Record - Wednesday 06 February 1918. Big increase of allotments for this year.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Aug 1
So for Doors Open Day I've joined with #SGHET and I'm getting out on the streets for a wee tour.
📣 Strathbungo Walking Tour
📆 Fri 19th or Sat 20th Sept at 1pm ~ book here 👉
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathbung...

#GDODF #GFODF25 #Glasgow850 #heritagetrail #Glasgow
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Obligatory Hallow’Iain Joke Here Pls @iainhepburn.me · Jul 12
Whoever it is going round Glasgow putting daft signs on stuff, please keep up the good work. Thanks.
An except for access sign on a fence at the Botanics in Glasgow, except the picture depicts a constitution class starship and a Klingon bird of prey A sign on the riverside opposite Finneston cran, warning No Godzillas 8am to 6pm except Sundays, with a graphic depicting the big kaiju fella menacing the cran and the horrible wee hotel next to it.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 13
Great thread!
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · Jul 13
It's been ages since I did a Glasgow photo thread.

It's June 1898 and we're sitting on a roof looking across the Fairfield fitting-out basin, in this photo from an anonymous album held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Let's see what we can see.
Photograph dated "June 1898", looking across a shipyard basin containing five partly fitted-out ships.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 12
McIntosh or Mackintosh? It's all in the story of 15 Regent Park Square.
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15 Regent Park Square
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 12
Charles Rennie Mackintosh had a room in the basement, which he decorated in his own style. It was while at no 15 that he designed his most famous buildings, such as the Glasgow School of Art, and the Mackintosh Church.

#charlesrenniemackintosh #househistory
Classic portrait of Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Craig Annan, 1893, when he lived at 2 Regent Park Square.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 12
William McIntosh moved into 15 Regent Park Square around Christmas 1895 (having been at no 6 a few years earlier). He was an inspector with Glasgow Police Force, and their tug-o-war captain.

But he was more famous as the father of the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

#Strathbungo #househistory
The Glasgow Police tug of war team in their kilts and sporrans, with their captain in the centre, 1889. Source: Glasgow City Archives
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 11
Full house history:
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15 Regent Park Square - Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Bygone Bungo
A house history for 15 Regent Park Square, home not just of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but a host of characters.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 11
Despite a couple of major warehouse fires he must have made a tidy profit, as he later bought one of the large country estates above Greenock, Broadfield. It became part of a hospital after WW2, but later demolished. The date of Inverclyde Heritage's photo suggests it is James sitting on the steps.
1893 photo of a three three-storey country house with three figures on the grand front steps. Note the ornate ironwork, and the telescope on the lawn. Source: Inverclyde Heritage
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 11
The first resident in 1868 was James Harrington from Coldstream, a wholesaler of Berlin wool goods, embroidery and haberdashery.
Berlin wool work - brightly decorated purse in greens, yellows and reds, with rope-like strap and tassels
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 11
Two men were rescued after 45 hours underground. Niven was actively involved in their rescue. Although there was criticism of the underground ventilation system that permitted the disaster, it doesn’t seem to have hampered his career. He went on to manage Clyde Ironworks & Cornsilloch Colliery.
Stone memorial at Nitshill reads In memory of the Nitshill Mining Disaster and the 61 miners from the Victoria Pit who lost their lives. Donations from the local community, traders, trade unions and Glasgow City Council.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 11
Another resident at 15 Regent Park Square was Peter Niven, former factor at Househill in Nitshill. He managed the Victoria coal pit there at the time of the great pit explosion of 1851 that claimed the lives of 61 men and boys. It was, at the time, the worst recorded Scottish mining disaster.
Newspaper illustration of the huge pithead explosion at the Victoria pit.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 10
You can read the story of 15 Regent Park Square here
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15 Regent Park Square - Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Bygone Bungo
A house history for 15 Regent Park Square, home not just of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but a host of characters.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 10
I find quirks of Scottish churches fascinating & confusing. The congregation spun off from the Old Lichts, rejoined the CoS in 1840, built Howard St Church, left again in 1843 for the Free Church, moved to Pollokshields, became the United Free, rejoined the CoS then sold the church to the Catholics.
The Howard St church today, all cleaned up and converted to offices, with an extra storey, now known as the Subirachs Building.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 10
In 1886 he moved his increasingly suburban congregation to a new Stockwell Street church, which was actually in Albert Drive, Pollokshields.
The former Stockwell Street Free Church in Albert Drive, now St Albert The Great RC Church, with large rectangular campanile. Architect John Bennie Wilson. Source Streetview
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 10
15 Regent Park Square wasn’t just the home of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Aberfeldy-born Rev John Duff Macgregor was resident in the 1870s. He was minister of Stockwell Street Free Church (which was actually in Howard Street).

#Strathbungo #househistory #charlesrenniemackintosh
The abandoned Stockwell Street Free Church in 1999, looking rather dlapidated with peeling whitewashed walls. Source: Canmore
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 9
My mum had one. Don't knock it till you've tried it. Best sun lounger ever.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 8
Never seen flying bin day? A sight to behold.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jul 2
Excellent podcast by @sghetorg.bsky.social with Cameron Winton leading us round the industrial history of the White Cart in Linn Park.
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Episode 7: Linn Park ‣ Southside Chronicles ‣ Glad.radio
Listen to "Episode 7: Linn Park" now on Glad.radio, a community podcasting project.
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Bygone Bungo @bygonebungo.bsky.social · Jun 27
Interesting. These look very much like the original street railings in Strathbungo. Of which only one example survives. Expect to see my head buried in a hedge anytime soon.
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