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[rolo tomassi]

No disrespect to Nota bu he wouldn't have a clue;-). It was on Ingran Street where the casino is now, across from the side entrance to M+S. My mum used to drag me in every week. Good thread this Rolo. I remember Daly's, Trerons, Arnotts and Simpsons, Lewis's, Goldbergs. Can anyone tell me if Fraser's was ever called by another name?

I'd totally forgotten Arnotts WAS in fact cried Arnott and Simpson in earlier days. Likewise Copelands used to be Copeland and Lye as some wise person pointed out earlier...

I can't think of a casino on Ingram St but there is one on Stockwell St opposite side entrance to M&S, Moll, where Tiger Tiger is now?

Your Q about Frasers is actually doing my nut in, because I do seem to recall in the dim and distant it wasn't actually cried Frasers. The whole chain used to be called House of Fraser, if I recall right, and latterly the different stores adopted their own IQ, like the one in Manchester is cried Kendalls for example.

I should probably google but can't be arsed, somebody here'll know the answer...

[ozneil]

Damn it I didnt Know Sloans Sounds great Like your pics HH.

How the hell did I miss it (shakes head). Im a nut for old Buildings

Was shop at corner of Renfield Street & Gordon Street Forsyths??

Grants book shop still at steps to Central??

Is the Shell still in Central Station?

[Gangster's Moll]

I'd totally forgotten Arnotts WAS in fact cried Arnott and Simpson in earlier days. Likewise Copelands used to be Copeland and Lye as some wise person pointed out earlier...

I can't think of a casino on Ingram St but there is one on Stockwell St opposite side entrance to M&S, Moll, where Tiger Tiger is now?

Your Q about Frasers is actually doing my nut in, because I do seem to recall in the dim and distant it wasn't actually cried Frasers. The whole chain used to be called House of Fraser, if I recall right, and latterly the different stores adopted their own IQ, like the one in Manchester is cried Kendalls for example.

I should probably google but can't be arsed, somebody here'll know the answer...

You are right. It's Stockwell St not Ingram St where Bremners was. I googled Frasers on Wiki and it says the Glasgow store was the first H of F in the chain founded in the mid 1800's. There's no mention of any other name and Kendels and the like were bought over by the chain. That's what Wiki says. I just remember some other name before for the Glasgow store. Must ask my mum.

[rolo tomassi]

Damn it I didnt Know Sloans Sounds great Like your pics HH.

How the hell did I miss it (shakes head). Im a nut for old Buildings

Was shop at corner of Renfield Street & Gordon Street Forsyths??

Grants book shop still at steps to Central??

Is the Shell still in Central Station?

Hello Oz, yes I think the shop at Renfield and Gordon was Forsyths... very upmarket? I think someone on here probably bought their cravats there in the 70s but I'm no about to reveal their ID, of course......

Steps to Central? No bookshop there now, only pound shops, KFCs, very cheap gear shops and some 24/7 stores in the immediate environs.

The Shell in Central Station? Do you mean the Bimb? Still there, but the world's so PC now we can't refer to it...the kids meet at Peckhams (upmarket deli) in the station now instead....LOL

[rolo tomassi]

You're the very man to ask, Dex, last week there was a bloke cutting about in chef's whites, about 'our' age, baldy hair, smiley face, big guy.

It's been annoying me where I know him from. Deffo a West End face if you knaa what I mean.

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[HollowHorn]

This building an the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Hotel on Union St. are all that remain of 'Grahamston' the area that was demolished to make way for the Central Station:

http://www.grahamston.com/

http://www.theglasgo....php?id=TGSDG12

[ozneil]

Is this it?



Check out Old Glasgow Pubs

If you want bigger pictures you have to buy the book but I'm sure a few memories will be jogged with the search function.

I was in Sloan's on Friday, very busy as it should be. Christmas dinner was good but at £25 it should be.

Yeah thats it Dex Thanks!!

Its wonderful how the mind plays tricks.

Now where abouts was his Lordships Larder? Googled It; St Enochs Square!!

[rolo tomassi]

Totally forgot C&A. Do recall the rude name it was cried in schoolboy humour but...

Anyone remember where it wis? I'm kinda thinking there was a branch on Sauchie, just where Littlewoods is now on the corner of Cambridge St?

I think there mighta been another branch down Argyle on the opposite side of the road where M&S is now and towards the Trongate?

It was Dutch-owned, wasn't it? You still see branches of C&A in other European cities. I prefer El Corte Ingles myself, it's just like being back in Lewis's. Excellent.

[Hamsterbert]

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It was Dutch-owned, wasn't it? You still see branches of C&A in other European cities. I prefer El Corte Ingles myself, it's just like being back in Lewis's. Excellent.

Yep, I suppose "C & A" was considered easier to deal with than whatsisname and August Brenninkmeijer.

[rolo tomassi]

Yep, I suppose "C & A" was considered easier to deal with than whatsisname and August Brenninkmeijer.

Clemens of course! DUH!

http://www.c-and-a.c...ompany/history/

So is C&A one of the world's oldest department stores? Why did it shut in the UKE when it's still going in Europe?

<think can guess answer to that>

[ozneil]

Does Gordon Brothers still exist in Ingram???? street?

Clyde Valley Model dockyary in Argylle Arcade.... wished I had a son then!]
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[rolo tomassi]

Does Gordon Brothers still exist in Ingram???? street?

Clyde Valley Model dockyary in Argylle Arcade.... wished I had a son then!]
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Nope on both counts, Ozzy

Ingram St has become pretendy 5th Avenue these days; all Ralph Lauren, Emporio Armani, Diesel, Mulberry, Cruise and Agent Provocateur. £800 handbags, £250 perrsa jeans, £100 t-shirts, £60 perras pants; total nonsense. Haven for wannabe gangsters, designer neds and members of the legal profession....

Argyle Arcade is now all jewellers shops. Sole exception I can think of is the mighty Sloans Bar.

If anyone knows where Clyde Model Dockyard is now, gies a shout here?

[HollowHorn]

[JRM3]

Hi,

I've been away from Glasgow for a few years now and was reminiscing and recalled being dragged around a department store as a wee boy, but I can't for the life of me remember which one. The image I recall most is the staircase. I think the store had two entrances one on Argyle St and the other on ??? with each floor being L shaped. Opposite the Argyle St entrance was the staircase, it was a wide curved staircase probably semi circular set into the wall (not a spiral staircase). The hand rail wasn't a grand wooden one like Frasers but a 70's "Modern" plastic coated steel handrail. I initially thought of Lewis's but I'm sure it wasn't and tried to search the web and was reminded of Arnotts which I had forgotten about. From the thread of this forum I'm sure someone will know which store I'm on about and hope someone can put me out of my misery.

JRM3

[samscafeamericain]

Hi,

I've been away from Glasgow for a few years now and was reminiscing and recalled being dragged around a department store as a wee boy, but I can't for the life of me remember which one. The image I recall most is the staircase. I think the store had two entrances one on Argyle St and the other on ??? with each floor being L shaped. Opposite the Argyle St entrance was the staircase, it was a wide curved staircase probably semi circular set into the wall (not a spiral staircase). The hand rail wasn't a grand wooden one like Frasers but a 70's "Modern" plastic coated steel handrail. I initially thought of Lewis's but I'm sure it wasn't and tried to search the web and was reminded of Arnotts which I had forgotten about. From the thread of this forum I'm sure someone will know which store I'm on about and hope someone can put me out of my misery.

JRM3

Sounds like Debenhams

[notanimby]

It may akshullae huv been Lewis's before it closed it wiz a "done up" and modernised sumwhat wae new escalators and an atrium thingy

[maggs]

didn't Lewis's have a grand stairwell done in grey marble, wide and roomy too. I remember as a wee lass queing up that big winding stair to see Santa

[ozneil]

Welcome JRM3. Hope for many more posts from you the natives here, in PWE, are mostly friendly.

Are you another ex-pat, if so your country needsyou! or living in another part of the best SMALL country in world ?? (( so they tell me)