Charing cross; Astonishing Glasgow. Ep23

In Astonishing Glasgow, even a crossroad has stories to tell and in this episode I try to fill in some details about the leaning fountain, the lost treasure and the surviving mansions.
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[@wboyle9721]

They distroyed this part of Glasgow with the motorway

[@chrissydidit811]

they knocked down my grannies house to build the motorway (the bastards)

[@wojciechturek1601]

As always portion of good humour added 😂😂😂

[@Billyboy-hd4si]

The Charing Cross mansions is such a beautiful building. Even though it was designed for aesthetics, the thought of a clock with no mechanism fits the Glasgow sense of humour just as much as the cone-headed Duke at GOMA (even though it pre-dates it by 100 years or so 😉)

[@moeszyslak7304]

Terrible design the M8

[@craigcrawford6487]

Keep up the good work. Love watching your videos bringing glasgow history to life 😁

[@hugobear8827]

My part of the city. Walked past that building millions of times.

[@colinriley123]

Have admired this tenement but never knew its architect went on to work on the BM in London

[@dough740]

Thank you for censoring the statuary - I could have been severely traumatised otherwise

[@AstonishingGlasgow]

I didnt want to be accused of corrupting the young and impressionable.

[@beadlesmhankyfist2274]

Burnett also designed the Western Infirmary in Partick

[@fabianmckenna8197]

They knocked that down as well.......

[@dmgsoultogetherness6667]

iv lived up there since 75 love it try look for the "pre fab type" flats that are situated behind the charing cross mansions and run as far along as garnet st in behind the garage nightclub

[@davedavey5]

If only they had heard of tunnels

[@Colinmck16]

cars still choke up the city north st is a nightmare

[@justinhamilton497]

Hoi Polloi doesn't mean posh by the way, it's the exact opposite.

[@thomasmcloney1437]

Very interesting and enjoyable cheers from a ex Glaswegian in oz. Keep them coming 👍

[@birdy-numnum6321]

Totally brilliant, cheers!

[@fontybits]

My mother (born 1927) assured me many years ago that Prince Philip once resided in Charing Cross Mansions.

[@insertnewchannelnamehere739]

wait is this town named after the place in london

[@AstonishingGlasgow]

Not in this case. As I said in the video the area of Charing cross in Glasgow is named after the block of flats that stood on the corner.

[@jamchiell]

The leaning memorial has been cleaned up. There was foliage growing out of it a few years ago and I thought the whole thing would just rot. Glad they maintained it.

[@AstonishingGlasgow]

The day I was there it was completely fenced off. I was worried that a collapse was being predicted but nice if the fence was there while they were carrying out maintenance.

[@alisonlee3314]

I get really annoyed driving around the city and seeing the greenery growing out of so many wonderful buildings.

[@ArooDoggo]

My great grandma was a maid for a doctor that lived in the Charing Cross mansions back in the early 1900’s (gg was born in 1905) One story that sticks in my mind was that she was made to walk it to Charing Cross from where she lived in kilsyth. Cannot imagine how painful that walk was!

[@fabianmckenna8197]

Family myth which most likely never happened........ Seventeen miles from Kilsyth to Charing Cross taking around five hours to walk which is possible but you'd have to leave home at 2.00am for an 7.00am start. Bear in mind that roads in those days were nothing like today's.

[@gooddoggo73]

Hi I was up that way today. For my first ever visit to the Mitchell library dispite having worked in the area for over 40 years.

[@AstonishingGlasgow]

The Mitchell is amazing but its such a shame the old reading room is in such a state.

[@JamesChurchill3]

I've always been curious to the story of the bridge over the M8 that suddenly ends halfway up, not far away from this location. Do you have any information on that?

[@AstonishingGlasgow]

The footbridge at Anderson?

[@JamesChurchill3]

@@AstonishingGlasgow That was one of them but they finished it off, just googled it and it's the ones at J20 that were never completed, always wondered where they were meant to go.

[@AstonishingGlasgow]

Ah, at the end of the Kingston bridge. Originally there was to be a Glasgow inner ring road and these ramps would have connected to the southern section. The southern section, had it been built would have passed right over Glasgow green then turned onto the high street and re-joined the M8 at Townhead in front of the Royal Infirmary. If people thought the M8 destroyed Glasgow can you imagine the change these plans would have made? There is a map of the proposed plan on my Monkland canal video kzbin.info/www/bejne/boHZk6dtfdKpoqc

[@JamesChurchill3]

@@AstonishingGlasgow Great stuff, you're absolutely right, that proposed layout looks crazy, the traffic through town is bad enough now!

[@alisonlee3314]

The 'bridge to nowhere ' was left unfinished for 40 years. It was supposed to reach the Anderston Centre, which was planned to have more shops and housing, but never really came up to expectations. In 2013, it was extended join the National Cycle Network.

[@spekkyguy]

Glasgow folk pronounce Charing as 'Chayring', not 'Chaaring'. Excellent video. Keep up the good work.

[@patricia8546]

Brought up in Glasgow, and worked in Charing Cross Mansions. Pronounced…Cha. Ring. Not chayring

[@janetmackinnon3411]

@@patricia8546 Posh?

[@slowmo9642]

"Chayring" jeezo lol.

[@spekkyguy]

Glasgow folk don't normally do long vowels, so they pronounce Charing as 'Chayring'. On the other hand, London folk love long vowels, so they pronounce Charing as 'Chaaring'. By 'Glasgow folk', I, of course, mean people born and bred in the city of Glasgow.

[@justinhamilton497]

The travel reporter on Radio Clyde always called it Chay-ring Cross too.