What lies beneath: Old granite setts and part of a stone tramway peeking through the thin layer of worn out modern tarmac which covers them on Lancefield Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow.
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An old road surface on South Woodside Road leading under the Great Western Road Bridge in the Kelvinbridge area of Glasgow. This leads down to where the Woodside Paper Mill stood (a site now occupied by a car park for the subway station) until around 1890.
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This whole area was majorly modified around 1890, and again later on, and there are several examples of newer walls being being built on top of older walls, but most of them seem to be post-1890 walls which still have the old curved coping stones in place (with the new wall simply being added on top of them at a later date).
Either way, there's a surprising amount of old stonework around Kelvinbridge, and its fun to try to work out what their origins are.
The brick in-fill seems to line up with the position of a sluice gate on this lade (circled in blue). This stone work also seems to form an edge of the type you'd see on an old lade, and the stones look like they could be slightly water-worn. Is it one of the last remnants of the old lade? It could be, but it could also be something else.
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The top of this lower section of wall is level with the surviving 'cobbled' street surface (actually made of setts and not cobbles) on South Woodside Street on the other side of the wall.
So what's going on here? I'll be honest and say I don't know for certain, but it lines up with the eastern edge of the mill lade for the long-gone Woodside Paper Mill which occupied this site until 1890s (circled in red on the lower left OS map fron 1857).
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There is an odd feature on the wall between the Kelvinbridge Subway Station Car Park and South Woodside Street in Glasgow (circled in red on bottom right). The base of the wall juts out by about 4 inches and appears older than the upper part of the wall (top photo). It also has an odd bit of brick in-fill that seems to have been added before the upper part was built (circled in blue on the middle photo).
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In my last post, I mentioned a filled-in arch in a low wall under the current Great Western Road Bridge in Glasgow (top right). This wall was part of the very first bridge over the River Kelvin at this point, and this surviving arch once crossed the mill lade for the Woodside Paper Mill, fed by a pool created by a dam across the Kelvin at this point, the surviving parts of which are shown on the left.
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Stamp vending machines were first introduced in the UK in 1907 (during the reign of Edward VII), so it must have been a later addition to this particular box, but I've no idea when. However, my best guess is sometime pre-WWII as the wording suggests a single stamp was issued for a single coin (probably a pre-decimal penny coin).
I noticed this curious little ghost sign on a VR post box on Crow Road in the Broomhill area of Glasgow a few months back, but only got round to photographing it today. It's made of enamel and its message (Await Delivery of Stamp Before Inserting Further Coin) seems rather odd, until you realise it's all that's left of a stamp vending machine which used to be attached to the post box.
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Such weigh stations were once an important part of commerce across Glasgow and allowed good to be measured without having to first be unload. As far as I know, only three remain. The others are at the former Fairfield Shipyard and near the Finnieston Crane.
This one was made by A. and W. Smith, which was founded in Paisley on 1836, and later operated out of the Eglinton Engine Works in Tradeston, meaning it may well have been made relatively locally.
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