The ARGO used to be a community centre in Drumchapel where all sorts of great things happened. Pottery classes, youth clubs, tea dances and boxing to name a few. Sadly after years of existence it was closed by the Council in a crazy cost cutting exercise and within days had been vandalised and set on fire.

Out of the ashes, literally, The ARGO boxing club has risen to go on to bigger and better things. Paul McCann and Davey Savage Snr who run the club along with the help of many others have taken over a wee shed behind St Marks on Kinfauns Drive and turned it into a purpose built boxing club. It has been no easy task and the premises they now operate from are testimony to the amazing dedication and commitment of all those involved.

I pitched up and took a few foties when all the hard work was done 🙂

First up was my mate Colin Barnes, who single handed has painted the entire building. In fact I think he had to do it twice after my sons kicked a dirty ball against the walls……….

The last plate is just on the right side of being underexposed, and the exposure time was only 8 seconds with a development time of 15 seconds. That works for me, I like my lights 🙂

Here are a couple of Colins pictures. He was using this modern new fancy stuff called film. I think it was tri-x? It’ll never catch on – wet plate’s the way forward!