Another one pulled from the unused archives, and which is so boring it would have stayed there, but for the pandemic lockdown.
This pic is probably a couple of years old now, the building lies in Queen Margaret Drive, which is probably enough of a clue to for some to trigger memories of it being the headquarters of BBC Scotland until 2007, when this was relocated in a new building next to the River Clyde.
The building was later acquired by another business, so has not become derelict.
I only took the pic as I noticed the building as I was passing by one day, on my way elsewhere, and grabbed it as it’s not really somewhere I land very often.
Can you spot the two cars encroaching either side of the entrance?
I don’t know why I bothered, but the two parked cars really irritated me, although they weren’t near the building or gate.
Just for fun, I decided to try removing them, and see how noticeable their removal was.
The day was really dull and grey, so the image (even the original) isn’t particularly great, so it wasn’t as hard as I had anticipated, nor did it take as long as I thought it might.
BBC Queen Margaret Drive
A little further to the right of the first pic location was a view over the wall, looking into a forecourt, and what appears to be the meeting of two buildings of apparently different eras.
The building on the left looks much newer than the one coming from the right.
However, it looks as if the windows of that left hand building have all been replaced with a rather nasty type of modern, white finished and mass-produced type, which may be a similar shape to the period originals, but I think are definitely not of the same appearance or finish.
I’m almost surprised Glasgow’s planning department gave permission, but the redeveloper may have managed to sneak these horrors in under cover of a large, multi paged application, where they were lost in the detail, possibly with some cleaver ‘weasel wording’.
Just my thought via the MKI eyeball, I have no actual details.
Queen Margaret Drive Forecourt
I’m not 100% sure now, thanks to not being a regular in this area, but I think there may have been work carried out in/on this forecourt area.
I have a recollection of seeing it full of builder’s goodies, and scaffolding, but I can’t place the memory – not can I easily nip back for a quick look.
Maybe one day I’ll get another look, and be able to tell if there’s a noticeable difference.
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