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©Chris Upson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Red Road development was approved in 1962, and comprises six, 31-storeyed tower blocks containing 720 flats, two 27-storeyed slab blocks and one three-storeyed block. They were designed by Sam Bunton & Associates for Glasgow Corporation.
©Chris Upson
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©Chris Upson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking to the Red Road flats.
©Stephen Sweeney
Dist:0.4km<br/>From Broomfield Road.
©Stephen Sweeney
Dist:0.4km<br/>This looks like a former shop.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.4km<br/>Secured lane behind a row of small houses off Edgefaulds Road.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.4km<br/>Pub in Old Balornock.
©Stephen Sweeney
Dist:0.4km<br/>The original Red Road after which the tower blocks were named was a dirt track bounded by the former Low Balornock Farm and Barmulloch Farm. These 8 tower blocks were built 1962-1969 on this area. At 31 storeys they were then the tallest tower blocks in Europe. The current site is bounded by Petershill Drive and the modern Red Road. The flats were designed by architect Sam Brunton and built to replace slum tenements, but residents were complaining about the poor conditions by 1971. The most distant tower block (also the one in the photograph farthest to the right) is now due for demolition.
©G Laird
Dist:0.4km<br/>Seen from Edgefaulds Road.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.4km<br/>31-storey tower blocks, once the highest in Europe
©Chris Upson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Haig Street leaves Edgefauld Road. In the acute angle between the streets there is a grove of horse chestnuts. The western side of the trees are brown, due to mechanical damage to the leaves during a gale on the 23rd May 2011. The site is very exposed to the west, Edgefauld Road is a steep hill. Some trees had suffered more permanent damage.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>The famous collection of tower blocks on the Red Road are to be demolished. The nearer block here is now in the hands of Safedem who hopefully will provide a spectacle in a few months time.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>This picture was taken in 1978 at the Remploy factory in Springburn when in those days all the manufactured products were transported to the distribution warehouse in Oldham Lancashire by vehicles like these. In 1978 this factory used to make chairs for offices and schools. Remploy was set up under the 1944 Disabled Persons Employment Act by Ernest Bevin, who was then minister of labour. The firm was formally founded in April 1945 and its first factory opened in Bridgend, South Wales, in 1946 where it made violins and furniture and many of the workers were disabled miners. Derived from 're-employ', the name was adopted by Remploy in 1946; before then it was called the Disabled Persons Employment Corporation. From its beginnings more than 60 years ago, the company developed a factory network throughout the UK which operated in a diverse variety of businesses. Remploy's work has included the manufacture of motor components, school furniture and making chemical, biological and nuclear protection suits for police and military in the UK and overseas. In 2007 Remploy was in the news after an announcement was made of plans to close 43 factories around the UK.http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/03/03/110872/remploy.html two of which can be seen below [[238007]] [[687996]]
©Paul Anderson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Very low but long tunnel (about 80m) controlled by Traffic lights on Darnick Street Glasgow. The overgrown embankment hides an active train line. 28th July 2009 3.45p.m.
©Gordon Dowie

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