Dosser-fae-the-shire Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Is there not another dodgy looking one outside B&Q right at the level crossing? Quick Google search and the bookies was J&H McKenna. Don't think it's still open though. There's a photo on Google images but I'm fucked if I can work out how to attach it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Craig Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 This is the bookies in Chapelhall, outside Airdrie. There used to be a wee wall where you could sit and eat your chips from the chippy next door.Now it looks like a prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 There's a tiny wee shack behind Sauchie's famous Bridge chippy that used to be a bookmakers - IIRC, they used to have bars across the windows covered in barbed wire. A grim wee converted toilet in the middle of a public park. Can't find any decent pictures of it, but the building's still on Google Street View. I was involved with that one. It was a Tote (who were bought by Betfred) and they had the idea to move it out onto Sauchie Main St. Nice new shiny shop, 500m away from all their customers who were now captive in the pub with no reason to escape. And Betfred now have a new shiny shop up the street with no customers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 I dont know if im right (perhaps a nightmare) but there was a really really grim bookies on Maryhill Road that was on the way to Firhill. That'll be this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 And, for the hat trick, I give you what is - quite genuinely - a converted public lavvy in Lochore. And for those of you who don't know where Lochore is, that's the bit of Fife to where Cowdenbeath banishes its outcasts. Just let that sink in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Apparently there's a plaque on one of the tables at the Hilton shop in memory of one of the (former) regulars. What are the odds on that, eh?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 39 minutes ago, yoda said: Apparently there's a plaque on one of the tables at the Hilton shop in memory of one of the (former) regulars. There probably is one but I can't think of any pubs or cafes round there apart from the chippie. Could be the only place to go out to apart from some godforsaken community centre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 @Hedgecutter must have spotted a few on his travels. Skipped over this thread until now. Ballingry (a stone's throw from the aforementioned Lochore, but somehow worse) jumps to mind: Amazing what a fresh lick of paint can do though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotman Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Has this one been knocked down yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Most of these premises look like their next occupancy will include a printed A4 sheet in the window - "SEX SHOP". Except for Dotman's. That's got a meeting with a bulldozer, surely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Would you really have the nerve to go into one of those wee sex shops? I remember I walked past one in Tonbridge for years on my way to work, and despite being a grown up and confident independent male (stop laughing), I could never summon up the courage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Would you really have the nerve to go into one of those wee sex shops? I remember I walked past one in Tonbridge for years on my way to work, and despite being a grown up and confident independent male (stop laughing), I could never summon up the courage. The worst part of those shops was the lack of actual sex on sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 1 hour ago, Ranaldo Bairn said: Would you really have the nerve to go into one of those wee sex shops? I remember I walked past one in Tonbridge for years on my way to work, and despite being a grown up and confident independent male (stop laughing), I could never summon up the courage. I summoned up the courage to go into one in Bexley Heath when I was 15. It was even more depressing than it looked from the outside. In hindsight, the bloke behind the counter seemed like he'd have been up for some sex, judging by the way he leaped out and tried to steer me towards the gay section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 There used to be a sex shop near the top of Easter Road. It was initially called Leather and Lace but then changed it's name to the more edgy Eros. I never visited but you'd occasionally see old men sloping in or out. It shut down a few years back and is now a computer repair/phone unlocking shop. The contents were being removed one night when I was walking past and one of the things they were removing to the van was a manniquin wearing a rubber nurses uniform but in place of the head of the manniquin they had a goats skull. Obviously a bit niche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 5 minutes ago, ICTChris said: a manniquin wearing a rubber nurses uniform but in place of the head of the manniquin they had a goats skull. Wid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 6 minutes ago, ICTChris said: The contents were being removed one night when I was walking past and one of the things they were removing to the van was a manniquin wearing a rubber nurses uniform but in place of the head of the manniquin they had a goats skull. I didn't know that Garrincha had ever been to the Easter Road area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 That'll be this one: Featured in Trainspotting, no less. I'm in my early 40s and this is the only bookies I was ever in where they still had a guy scribbling the odds and results up on a black/white board on the wall. There was quite an art to it, especially on a day with a lot of race meetings on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 This is probably me being a great big middle class snob but I hate bookies, they all seem really grubby and sleazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 1 hour ago, ICTChris said: There used to be a sex shop near the top of Easter Road. It was initially called Leather and Lace but then changed it's name to the more edgy Eros. I never visited but you'd occasionally see old men sloping in or out. It shut down a few years back and is now a computer repair/phone unlocking shop. The contents were being removed one night when I was walking past and one of the things they were removing to the van was a manniquin wearing a rubber nurses uniform but in place of the head of the manniquin they had a goats skull. Obviously a bit niche. I believe you, thousands wouldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 2 minutes ago, ICTChris said: This is probably me being a great big middle class snob but I hate bookies, they all seem really grubby and sleazy. The rise of online gambling has given an air of respectability to having a punt. You can piss your money up against the wall from the comfort of your own home. Bookies shops just reek of desperation and no amount of trying to spruce them up with faux laddy banter will ever be able to get rid of the stench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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