Parksquare/ Parliement Place

[Kevin Mc]

That's right opposite where my uncle stays (he's on Lady Mary Row). Will be strange once they're gone. Bit like the old house at the Shipyard, and the Shipyard, and the Rex I was amazed when that church near to where Tesco's is now was knocked down. That must be a fair few years ago now....

Are there any plans for something to be built in it's place? More housing?

[bill]

What are they going to build there in its place?

Tony Blair has stated that there is a need for more than one super casino.

I can just see a super casino standing where Parliament Place stands.A hotel complex on Broad St. Multi-storey car park on the site of Park Square. A three lane motorway to Glasgow,a bridge to Ayrshire.

[general jack o'niell]

and if you get bored you can climb up solidarities stick to the moon

little we won gag, alex at eufa final on telly, who's the wee guy with him?

[SmithD]

Seen some horrific photos of inside the flats in parliament. Pretty shocking they state they are in! A shame that all that housing was left to deteriorate that way, especially when housing is so short!

[bill]

A shame that all that housing was left to deteriorate that way,

Surely the decision to knock them down would have been taken some time ago,so what would have been the point in spending money in doing them up

[general jack o'niell]

seeing as how both places were better kitted oot than any other cooncil hoose in the toon, new roof, central heating, windows, kitchens bathrooms etc etc, insulation, i know non of it was recent but if you buy your own house and do all that you expect it to last at least ten to fifteen years, i think it was down to a couple of generations that never even fixed a dripping tap, phone the cooncil!!!!! ma taps dreepin, i've heard stories, usually about things you would fix quickly and without fuss in your own house.

not saying the tenents were all like that, but there were enough, nd where do you think they'll be rehoused to? if your area has started to look scabby in the last year or two, you'll know

[Dunc]

I think you have hit the head in the last post sir.......the houses were fine it was the crap that was in them.In fact when looking at the Parliament Place photos those houses were quite stunning when you think of it and still have more character than some of the more modern "boxes".I hope when they do decide to build on them and the sites are not left waste for Tesco trolleys etc and makes us look that we could be twinned with Ramalla or Beirut that the tenants will be held more responsible.But I sudder to think...............


Dunc

[SmithD]

I think you have hit the head in the last post sir.......the houses were fine it was the crap that was in them.In fact when looking at the Parliament Place photos those houses were quite stunning when you think of it and still have more character than some of the more modern "boxes".I hope when they do decide to build on them and the sites are not left waste for Tesco trolleys etc and makes us look that we could be twinned with Ramalla or Beirut that the tenants will be held more responsible.But I sudder to think...............


Dunc

That the sort of point I was getting at without saying!

[gizmo]

Not entirely sure that it is fair to say the tenants were crap... I worked in Parlie often enough to know that the majority that I met were perfectly normal people...

[Dunc]

I was remembering back to 50 and 60's and not Parliament Square I should have made that clear there was a world of difference between them then. I also used to do a lot of house visits to fix "electrical things" and some of the houses were hard to believe. We went into one house in winter to be greated by a nice fire...unfortunately it was'nt in the fireplace but in a metal bin in middle of floor....

Its like the old story ...one bad apple etc spoils the whole sack.

Cheers

Dunc

[petewick]

I was remembering back to 50 and 60's and not Parliament Square I should have made that clear there was a world of difference between them then. I also used to do a lot of house visits to fix "electrical things" and some of the houses were hard to believe. We went into one house in winter to be greated by a nice fire...unfortunately it was'nt in the fireplace but in a metal bin in middle of floor....

Its like the old story ...one bad apple etc spoils the whole sack.

Cheers

Dunc

That's as may be Dunc, but you should not judge others by your own standards, you also have no right to term anyone else as crap.


petewick

[bill]

Certainly agree with you there Petewick,you can't tar all the residents with the same brush.

Would like to see Dunc stand in in a local pub and proclaim that all the residents of Parliament Place and Park Square were crap.

[Dunc]

Well as my old Co. used to say" this man sets an abysmally low standard and frequently fails to live up to it"

Dunc

[Dunc]

I shall now scurry away.

Dunc

[general jack o'niell]

don't think he was saying that all tenents were crap, neither was i, in my lifetime, well my youth, most were just decent hard working people who took pride in their homes, its only been in recent times that the tenents, not all of them, just a minority, have brought the area down, the same is now happening to millknowe and albyn, i used to think when i was much younger that a gun and six bullets could rid the town of the undesirable element, now theres two more generations of the same sorts, plus all the flotsam from elsewhere, the "i know my rights!!!" brigade the type that keep the legal aid system smoothly ticking over, a few years ago i sat on the schools absentee panel (i was elected to represent my schoolboard) the children that came before us were on a hiding to nothing, were never going to get the start in life they deserved and were only falling into the same pit that their parents and grandparents have lived in for many years, i'm sorry to say that i often made up my mind about the child after having one look at the parents and often in some cases the grandparents, i knew them by reputation, could see that the child or children were brought up the aame way, with no respect for others or authority, be it legal, council or school, i'm seeing the same children, now grown up, left school and appearing in the police file in the courier on a weekly basis.

somebody has failed those children badly, i'm sure the schools havedone everything they could only to have their face slappped by the parents.

think i'm too sore? picture yourself having to go to one of these meetings with your child, you would be affronted, mortified, have the decency to be embarressed and aplogetic?

or would you turn up, late, or not at all, with your child's social worker in tow, and and excuse yourself from all responsibility by saying "i canna get him/her to go to school, he/she left the hoose at 8.30am" more often than not, i kept silent when asked if i had anything to say, knowing that if i opened my mouth i wouldn't be able to shut it, nor take back anything i said, the panel always did its best to see things from the childs viewpoint and to find ways to help the child, usually with little co-operation from the parent, it's an age of political correctness gone mad, i'd really much rather given the parent a good slap, its all learned behaviour, the child see the parents having no respect for others, they grow up the same way. thats why these houses are being bulldozed, the few bad apples do rot the whole barrel