St Vincent Crescent DEVELOPERS have launched a fresh bid to secure approval for a development at St Vincent Crescent. In what is a third attempt to build flats at the site, plans have been radically altered from initial designs. Owners Nixon Blue hope the changes will be enough to satisfy council planners and the campaigners who opposed the initial scheme. Nixon Blue Director and Architect Colin McIntyre said: “We returned to the drawing board to reduce the height, mass and alter aspects of our original design. We listened to the feedback from stakeholders to our previous plans. We have reduced the number of apartments to 20 as well as removing two storeys to complement the height of surrounding buildings within the crescent.
We listened to the feedback from stakeholders to our previous plans. We have reduced the number of apartments to 20 as well as removing two storeys to complement the height of surrounding buildings within the crescent. We have, however, retained and expanded our proposal for a new public garden space as part of our £8million investment in the city. Our aim is to continue to have an open dialogue with Glasgow City Council and to bring a wider range of three and four-bedroom homes to Finnieston.”
READ MORE: Chris Simmonds, lead architect with Page/Park said: “The new application is a completely different design, not only in terms of the position and scale of the proposed building but also in terms of the configuration, layout, and usability of the amenity open space to the north of the proposed residential site and within the general environment of St Vincent Crescent as a whole.
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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly was born enslaved in Dinwiddie County in 1818. For more than thirty-seven years, she labored for three different branches of the Armistead Burwell family. At fourteen, she began ten years of bondage in the household of Burwell’s eldest son, a minister in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where she endured repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults and eventually gave birth to a son. Sent back to Virginia, she was enslaved in the household of Anne Burwell Garland and her husband, Hugh Garland. In 1847, Garland moved his household to St. Louis. By then a skilled seamstress, Keckly was hired out as a dressmaker to support the impoverished family. After several years of negotiations, Garland agreed to Keckly’s proposal to buy her and her son’s freedom. Keckly married James Keckly, with whom she lived in St. Louis for eight years. In 1860, Keckly left her husband and moved to Washington, D.C., where she established herself as a seamstress to the capital
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A rarely- seen set of LIFE Magazine photos capture the legendary stripper, Gypsy Rose Lee while on tour with the carnival in 1949- Lee was the world s most famous burlesque dancer in the 1930s and 1940s
Born to a ruthlessly ambitious stage mother- Lee spent her entire childhood performing as a second-rate actor in the vaudeville circuit while playing second fiddle to her younger sister who was the star of the show
Her mother pitted the sisters against each other and dismissed Gypsy as fat and untalented - her sister later said that Gypsy was the first person to be famous for being famous