Because I am a bit sad, and wanted to find out a bit more about my town, I have
spent much of the last two years walking around Rutherglen taking photos.
The following pages show what I've found. First a bit abut the town, if you
haven't been paying attention on other pages:
Rutherglen
is about 4 miles from the centre of Glasgow. The town has about
40,000 inhabitants and Rutherglen is actually much older than Glasgow.
We
have a big clock tower which has just been done up. We also have a new swimming
pool, astroturf pitches, a bingo hall and over a dozen pubs.
Sounds all right, doesn't it? Well,
wrong! It's pish!
I am very lucky to live in
Burnside, where I don’t
have to worry about getting attacked outside my house, or anywhere nearby,
unless I am unlucky and bump into the Wifty (Fernhill
neds) on their way home from a sojourn in my tedious suburban abode. But I know
that some people have worries like this all the time, so I can’t complain
really.
Rutherglen
is also likely to benefit a lot over the next few years from being part of South
Lanarkshite… sorry… shire, which is a much richer area than Glasgow City. There are much worse places nearby for unemployment, drug abuse, poverty, poor
housing and alcoholism, but parts of Ruggy are pretty bad too.
I have slagged Rutherglen and its bizarre communities but I guess it is an
alright place to live really. It is quite a famous town and at least we have
some shops, industry and transport which is more than some places have.
And on a nice day Overtoun Park is alright.
Sorry if you are from an
area that I have taken the piss out of – that is, everywhere – and are offended.
But am I wrong? Maybe just a bit too pessimistic but at least I find the
place funny! If you really care, give me a shout to say so, ut otherwise
it's just a daft website, find something more useful to do with your time!
Fuck knows I should have done instead of making it!
I don't have a car, so I took
most of these photos whilst on long walks around the area, so if anyone saw
some weirdo taking a photo of their house, it was me! Sorry if I
freaked you out. There are also images that I have 'borrowed' from
other sites I have been to. Most are of things I couldn't have taken a
normal photo of.
I have not included any
images of people as that would be unfair without asking permission, so lots
of the photos are a but dull, but I hope they give an idea of what the town
looks like. Some of them are already out of date, as Ruggy is being
redeveloped all the time, so I have made a page for the new things I see, so
I only have to update one page!
I have put a wee table
showing how to get to each area onto the pages. It makes me feel I am encouraging
people to visit. Realistically though, hardly anyone outwith the town will even
read this, and the rest of my site could well put off more potential visitors
than it attracts. In any case, you should also refer to the
Transport and Pubs/Grub
pages for travel information.
I also made a ratings guide
to each area, which is detailed on each page. The overall results are under
the map...
If you don't
like something I've written, feel free to
E-mail me and I'll think about amending/removing the offending passage. Or
perhaps you have something more positive to contribute than my miserable
sarcastic bollocks. But if you live here it's unlikely you have any positive
energy at all so I doubt it. Also sorry if the
pages takes ages to load but that might be because you've got a crappy cable
modem. Get broadband for fuck sake, it's much cheaper and faster. I recommend
ntl:
On each page I have rated
each area out of 10 in five categories:
-
Safety - (chance of getting accosted in
some way on the street or even at home)
-
Amenities/Commerce - (how much stuff
there is to do/ work/buy in the area)
-
Beauty - the natural and man-made
attractive features in the area
-
Transport - the range of facilities
which exist to take people in and out of the area
-
Residents - A sort of
sociopolitical thing, but basically, do the local folk treat visitors and
each other alright, whether rich, poor, old or young?
The results for each area can be
found on their respective pages. You can see the overall scores below as
well as Rutherglen's overall score out of 700 (I suppose this would be 'the
ideal city'). Low 400s is an unsurprising but satisfying result for a
middling, insignificant and socially mixed town like Rutherglen.
I think
I've been fair with each area but if you have a gripe about a score, as with
every other aspect of the site, drop me a line. I won't guarantee I'll act
on your complaint but I do promise to read everything and I am not
pretending the site is perfect, so I welcome constructive criticism which
can be used to improve the site - as if anyone cares anyway.
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