{"id":592,"date":"2011-04-12T20:57:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T20:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2013-11-16T23:40:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T23:40:54","slug":"clydebank-town-hall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/miscellaneous\/clydebank-town-hall-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clydebank Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>I first covered Clydebank’s town hall back in January of 2010<\/a>, when it was still half-live and attached to the absolutely gorgeous public baths<\/a> next door. Now, sadly, the baths have been half-demolished, and the town hall is being refurbished.<\/p>\n

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So when I heard that the tower was now possible, how could I resist a revisit? First, in through the catacombs:<\/p>\n

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Next a bit of a surprise – they’ve ripped half the stage away:<\/p>\n

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It does mean it’s now possible to see the fantastic main hall now, which was securely behind a fire curtain on my last visit:<\/p>\n

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Check out the minstrel’s gallery in a dining hall \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Another hall, with the loudest flooring ever – it sounded like several gunshots every step!<\/p>\n

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Next into the highheidyin’s quarters, with everything carefully protected with plastic and bubblewrap:<\/p>\n

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As well as a town hall, this building housed the courts:<\/p>\n

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The courtroom itself, stripped out sadly:<\/p>\n

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Next, up the tower:<\/p>\n

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To the bells:<\/p>\n

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Which are controlled on a lower level by a brilliant keyboard device, complete with music stand:<\/p>\n

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Also in the tower is the clock mechanism which drives four faces:<\/p>\n

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While poking about in the attic, I also found the trapdoor leading to the flagpole – it was very exposed with lots of people about, so I didn’t have time for a picture, but inside on the floor was what I think is the official flag of Clydebank:<\/p>\n

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Next, what else does a courthouse have? Cells, of course \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Finally, a stop-off in the baths – only the main pool is left, but at least they’ve saved the old cast-iron turnstile and a slipper bath for posterity.<\/p>\n

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I first covered Clydebank’s town hall back in January of 2010, when it was still half-live and attached to the absolutely gorgeous public baths next door. Now, sadly, the baths have been half-demolished, and the town hall is being refurbished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/5610284402_140f1b5eef_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yGoo-9y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}