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Mollinsburn Street, GLASGOW, G21 4SE

Looking south towards the city centre, near the entrance to St Rollox retail park.

At the junction with Flemington Street.

A new building is nearing completion at a site just to the north of here.

Viewed from the junction with the new Springburn Road.

The old tenement was the Springburn Fire station until the construction of a new station I believe in the late 70's. If you look closely you can see the infill of the original station openings on the ground floor which now have windows set in. The building has been converted to flats. I am led to believe families of the Firemen lived in the flats above and a brick built block of flats sit just to the right and behind the building, also used as housing for families. The line of the original Springburn Road can be seen to the left of the station building, the road was re-aligned and made a Dual carriageway in the early 80's. The new North bound carriageway is seen to the far left. 24th July 2009 10.15 a.m.

Viewed from Springburn Road.

This building wasn't always a seat of learning, originally being built in 1909 as the Administrative and Drawing Offices of the former North British Locomotive Company of Scotland. Directly across the street (to the left of picture) was the Hyde Park Works, where many railway engines were built. In a strange quirk of fate, after the old locomotive works were demolished and the site cleared, it is the college that is expanding, and a new campus is being built to replace the current red standstone building.

A high retaining wall on the south side of the road.

This site was previously the home to the North British Railway Locomotive Hyde Park Works, where many railway engines were built. The North Glasgow College took over the original Administration and Drawing Office directly opposite, and will be moving to this new site once construction is complete in 2008.