Everyone lives somewhere.
Most somewheres have history.
Most history is boring bullshit.
Some history is interesting, or cool to look at, or funny, or something like that, but who has time to go pick random places and dig through their history looking for interesting stuff? Jerks, that's who, so let's synergise our crowdsourcing outside of the box and just tell each other neat stuff.
I'll go first, except mine might be boring, so it's probably on you guys to be interesting.
St. Enoch Square in Glasgow is technically sacred ground, being the last resting place of Saint Thenew, who was mother to the patron saint of Glasgow, Saint Kentigern, although I have no clue what the fuck it is called Enoch instead of Thenew (or any related spellings) for.
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This image (from 1911 or earlier) shows the St Enoch church, subway entrance, and the hotel and railway station in the background, it was a fairly important hub for Glasgow transport at the time, the church was a rebuild of an earlier church which was built around 1790, and was demolished in 1926. The station and hotel were built in 1876 and 1879 respectively, and were notable for being among the first buildings in Glasgow to be lit by electricity, sadly they went the same way as the church in 1977 during a period of modernisation.
Here we can see a bit more of the scale of the 200 room hotel.
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Here is a similar scene (uncertain of the date, but relatively early anyway) from another angle.
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Here we see the square in 1949, the station, hotel, and subway are all still present, but the church is 23 years gone, and the area is largely used for parking and taxi staging.
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Post demolition the area of the station and hotel was used as a large car park, which can be seen in this image of the exposed tracks as the subway was modernised in the late 1970's, at the same time the ticket office and entrance building ceased being used for those purposes, instead becoming a travel information centre.
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In the late 1980's the St Enoch Centre was constructed, with a rather lovely glass "pyramid" style roof, which can be seen slightly in the first image which includes the old Subway entrance, the second aerial shot (which is more recent than that), and the third shot of the opposite entrance (visible in the far right of the aerial image).
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In this more recent shot you can see the entrance for the subway constructed during the late 70's modernisation, along with part of the new frontage / entrance to the St Enoch Centre itself, and being up to the modern day you can see some more of the new frontage onto the square that is there today.
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...that's probably more than enough from me, now.
Your turn.
Most somewheres have history.
Most history is boring bullshit.
Some history is interesting, or cool to look at, or funny, or something like that, but who has time to go pick random places and dig through their history looking for interesting stuff? Jerks, that's who, so let's synergise our crowdsourcing outside of the box and just tell each other neat stuff.
I'll go first, except mine might be boring, so it's probably on you guys to be interesting.
St. Enoch Square in Glasgow is technically sacred ground, being the last resting place of Saint Thenew, who was mother to the patron saint of Glasgow, Saint Kentigern, although I have no clue what the fuck it is called Enoch instead of Thenew (or any related spellings) for.
This image (from 1911 or earlier) shows the St Enoch church, subway entrance, and the hotel and railway station in the background, it was a fairly important hub for Glasgow transport at the time, the church was a rebuild of an earlier church which was built around 1790, and was demolished in 1926. The station and hotel were built in 1876 and 1879 respectively, and were notable for being among the first buildings in Glasgow to be lit by electricity, sadly they went the same way as the church in 1977 during a period of modernisation.
Here we can see a bit more of the scale of the 200 room hotel.
Here is a similar scene (uncertain of the date, but relatively early anyway) from another angle.
Here we see the square in 1949, the station, hotel, and subway are all still present, but the church is 23 years gone, and the area is largely used for parking and taxi staging.
Post demolition the area of the station and hotel was used as a large car park, which can be seen in this image of the exposed tracks as the subway was modernised in the late 1970's, at the same time the ticket office and entrance building ceased being used for those purposes, instead becoming a travel information centre.
In the late 1980's the St Enoch Centre was constructed, with a rather lovely glass "pyramid" style roof, which can be seen slightly in the first image which includes the old Subway entrance, the second aerial shot (which is more recent than that), and the third shot of the opposite entrance (visible in the far right of the aerial image).
In this more recent shot you can see the entrance for the subway constructed during the late 70's modernisation, along with part of the new frontage / entrance to the St Enoch Centre itself, and being up to the modern day you can see some more of the new frontage onto the square that is there today.
...that's probably more than enough from me, now.
Your turn.