Fifty years ago, a canyon of concrete was carved through Glasgow’s urban fabric. Where once city dwellers passed uninterrupted from city centre to neighborhood there is now a vast expanse of tarmac rising and falling dramatically into the ground.
Charing X was once a community before it became a major intersection: the main ingress and egress point for traffic in, out and through Glasgow.
This mini-doc explores how this place has changed.
January 2019 ©
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Margaret O’Neil, former resident of 87 St George’s Road
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Johnny Rodger, professor of urban literature at Glasgow School of Art
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Stuart Baird, civil engineer and founder of the Glasgow Motorway Archive
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Jim O'Neil, former resident of Anderston
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