Tuesday 2 March 2010

Woodside (& St Georges Cross)

Woodside is bounded on the north and east by Maryhill and the  Forth and Clyde canal and by Great Western Rd and Woodlands to the west and south; see also Kelvinbridge and Churches. This view shows Gt Western Rd on the left; the view up to Maryhill Rd in the middle and St Georges Rd on the left. The community council website is excellent  - www.woodsideonline.org.uk











The beginning of the long Maryhill Rd 









'Presented to the people of Glasgow by the Cooperative Wholesale Society'.  This 1897 sculpture stood on the old Co-op building at the cross until the building was demolished in 1985 - the sculpture was saved and given its new freestanding site in 1988.







The end of Gt Western Rd: St Georges Cross ahead, road into town sweeping up on right where a car coming donw catches a sunburst


Tattoo shop, Clarendon Place. Great description on poster beside blind





Th magnificent St Georges Rd library; paid for by Andrew Carnegie in the days when millionaires did such things


Burnbank Gardens on left, Burnbank Terrace on right, Maryhill Rd in distance.  Bret Harte was the US Consul in Burnbank Gardens for several years


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