Empire Exhibition 1938

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Mr. B

Discussion Starter · May 10, 2007

Yo, I just found some rather small images of the Empire exhibition and well they speak for themselve. Still can't believe they demolished it all.

Peace Pavillion

Crown Fountain

Northern Cascades

Great Lake

Atlantic Restaurant

and of course, The Tower of the Empire (Tait Tower)

I've got more and will post them up soon

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Mr. B

Discussion Starter · #2 · May 10, 2007

Entrance Gates

Concert Hall

Coal Pavillion

Canadian pavillion

Austrailian Pavillion

Burma pavillion

GPO Pavillion

Dominions Pavilions

Colonial Pavilion

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Bachy Soletanche

· #3 · May 10, 2007

Got anything a bit bigger?

That tate Tower looks increadable.

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i had found a magazine (Weekly Illustrated) from 1938 which i bought for a measly £4 at a local car booth sale. It's got the Tait Tower on the front cover and a special feature of the Empire Exhibition.
I'll take some pics of it and post them here.

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Bachy Soletanche

· #5 · May 10, 2007

I'd be greatful!

(pst! Note new Avatar?!)

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Mr. B

Discussion Starter · #6 · May 10, 2007

:applause: Haha thats just made my day! (damn I wish I'd thought of that!)

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Mr. B

Discussion Starter · #7 · May 10, 2007

Haha Touche. Although you got the better pic I admit.

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crusty_bint

· #8 · May 10, 2007

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crusty_bint

· #9 · May 10, 2007

The road running east/west along the bottom edge of the park in the pic is Mosspark Boulevard

The pavillion top left of the exhibition in both pics is now the site of Bellahouston Sports Centre

The Tate Tower was situated at the top of the hill which is on the Paisly Rd West side of the park (I suppose), Helen St heads off south to Govan down past what appears to be a stadium (on the right)

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crusty_bint

· #10 · May 10, 2007

from HiddenGlasgow.com

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Kentigern

· #11 · May 11, 2007

Any experts want to guess how much it would cost today to rebuild that tower?

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Lefty Le Mur

· #12 · May 11, 2007 (Edited)

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Bachy Soletanche

· #13 · May 11, 2007 (Edited)

Best Demolished building in the UK?

With the possible exception of St. Pauls in London?

I've added a rate a scraper poll http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=13114833#post13114833

So I've err 'borrowed' a few of the above pics! ta!

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The Boy David

· #14 · May 11, 2007

Fantastic Pictures guys.

And yeah stephen, this could well be one of the greatest buildings in contemporary time to be demolished in the UK.

Such a shame.

Awesome stuff

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Bachy Soletanche

· #15 · May 18, 2007

I know I've seen that statue somewhere before...

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· #16 · May 18, 2007

Tate Tower Today

I thought it would be quite interesting to create a picture of what Glasgow might look like, if Tate Tower were still here today.

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M_Riaz

· #17 · May 18, 2007

That is awesome kenny thanks for that.

That would actualy make the councilors to maybe reconsider recreating the tate tower for belahouston park which was considerd a few years ago as the foundations for the tower are still there burried.

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Boards

· #18 · May 18, 2007

Thats class Kenny! Needs rebuilt, cant think of any reason why not.

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cinosanap

· #19 · May 20, 2007

Has anyone got pictures of the older EE? I'm sure there was one and there is pictures inside the Kelvingrove. There was a picture of a building that was absolutelly gigantic!!

Sorry if it wasn't the EE but it would be nice to get pictures if you guys have any.

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Boards

· #20 · May 20, 2007

There were a few huge exhibitions held in Glasgow prior to '38 Empire Exhibition,

1888 International Exhibition of Science, Art & Industry ( The proceeds of which went into building Kelvingrove, 6 - 11 million visitors depending on which report you read )

1901 Glasgow International Exhibition ( 11.5 million visitors )

1911 Scottish, Exhibition of National History, Art & Industry ( dont be misled by the Scottish prefix - it attracted 9.4 million visitors )

The 1901 exhibition's 'main' building was the particularly vast Eastern Palace ( which may be the building you have in mind? ),

The proximity of Kelvingrove gives you an idea of its scale,

There are very few images knocking about on the net ( wonder what the Mitchell Library might have? ). Visit this guys site for the best photos ( they are copyrighted and cant be reproduced without his permission ), Annan were the events official photographers.

http://www.annanphotographs.co.uk/glasgowexhibitions.html

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