{"id":156,"date":"2008-06-23T18:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T18:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2013-11-17T22:46:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T22:46:11","slug":"rockvilla-mushroom-factory-and-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/industrial\/rockvilla-mushroom-factory-and-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockvilla Mushroom Factory and School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right next to the Spier&#8217;s Wharf branch of the Forth &amp; Clyde Canal stands this rather ugly building &#8211; it&#8217;s been a very visible landmark just to the north of Glasgow city centre for as long as I can remember. Rockvilla is, as it sounds, an enormous rock &#8211; Possil road tunnels through it and under the canal, and there used to be a school perched on the rock, but all that remains of that is the boy&#8217;s and girl&#8217;s entrances which spiral up through the rock.<\/p>\n<p>This building was once a bonded warehouse, but later it was used for growing mushrooms &#8211; hence the bricked-up lower windows. It&#8217;s most interesting for the fantastic views.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Abandoned Warehouse (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2604830199\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Abandoned Warehouse (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Abandoned Warehouse (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2418\/2604830199_b0c2088ac9_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A view from an upper window, looking west over the canal:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Looking West (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2614593568\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Looking West (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Looking West (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3049\/2614593568_6fdc6e3001_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inside, it&#8217;s mostly bog-standard warehouse:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sofa (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2613670423\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sofa (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Sofa (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3061\/2613670423_a30aa780ff_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some serious big steel doors, though:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Red Door  2 (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2614519374\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Red Door  2 (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Red Door  2 (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2323\/2614519374_35e906ae05_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is the view east to Spier&#8217;s Wharf:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Through a broken window... (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2614604264\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Through a broken window... (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Through a broken window... (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3186\/2614604264_0ba5ce0f17_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The school was standard Victorian &#8211; the outdoor boy&#8217;s toilets are still standing:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rockvilla Toilets (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2604935253\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rockvilla Toilets (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Rockvilla Toilets (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2365\/2604935253_a980b444c3_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The staircase that spirals up inside the rock is beautiful, though damned hard to take a panorama of \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rockvilla Panorama (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2605714906\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rockvilla Panorama (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Rockvilla Panorama (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3159\/2605714906_d761a2575a_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right next to the Spier&#8217;s Wharf branch of the Forth &amp; Clyde Canal stands this rather ugly building &#8211; it&#8217;s been a very visible landmark just to the north of Glasgow city centre for as long as I can remember. Rockvilla is, as it sounds, an enormous rock &#8211; Possil road tunnels through it and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2614593568_6fdc6e3001_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yGoo-2w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}