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| Govanhill is on the south side and is a mixed area in terms of class and of ethnic groups; most of the latest group to come to Scotland, the Roma, who arrived from eastern Europe in the early 21st century, settled here. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govanhill |
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| The park sign says do not feed the pigeons, as they are vermin. Thankfully most old and new Scots, several of whom have had the term 'vermin' applied to themselves, tend to ignore this instruction. This wee group of doos are waiting for their regular feeder |
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| Govanhill Park is clean and well maintained |
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| Colourised railings |
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| Jim's Barber Shop, Calder St, beside the Baths |
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| Kingarth Lane |
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| Kingarth Lane on opposite side of Calder Rd |
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| Govanhill Public Baths |
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| This is what visitors expect to see in Govanhill, dumped furniture. Seems no worse than Hillhead to me in that respect |
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| Beside the Cobbler is the Govanhill Community Baths Trust, a local community initiative to save the much-loved Baths from closure. See www.govanhillbaths.com |
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| Mixed communities such as Govanhill are often described (rather hopefully) as 'vibrant', but the adjective is fitting here - within the gates beside Mod Girl is a dance studio |
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| Govanhill Health Centre |
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| Homeopathic Clinic |
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| Govanhill Public Library |
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| All human life is here, including the kitchen sink |
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| Note refurbishment; lot of it going on in April 2010 |
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| Southside Studios |
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| UK Learning Academy |
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| Westmoreland Gardens |
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| Now into Victoria Rd - to get to Queens Park you go past Happy Days |
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| One of Glasgow's fine old cafes |
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| We are in Crosshill now, on the other side of Victoria Rd,where you could sit in this chair and watch the world go by |
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| Queens Park station on right |
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| Cheap licence plates |
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| Crosshill Post Office - voted Scotland's best PO in 2009 |
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| Nail grooming and criminal defence |
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| Sunbed salon; note untraditional sort of orangeman approacing |
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| Narrow entrance to big snooker tables |
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| Hair salon and another sunbed salon: note chair being held down by owner to prevent its escape |
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| View up Victoria Rd to Queens park |
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| Another view up |
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| View down Victoria Rd from Queens Park entrance |
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| We're on the other side of Crosshill now (Crosshill Station on left), in Cathcart Rd, heading down from Hampden Park on the afternoon of Scottish Cup Final day, 15 May 2010; see http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/05/hampden-park-dundee-united-v-ross.html |
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| Maison Ronnie; Glasgow's hairdressers are worth a photoblog of their own |
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| A Beauty shop |
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looking down Dixon Rd |
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| At an angle on the corner of Dixon Avenue and Cathcart Rd, we find The Dixon Halls, built 1878. Scots Baronial (along with the neolithic brochs) is one of the few architectural styles native to Scotland, and this building is a splendid example of the form |
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| Just off Cathcart Rd is this odd little building |
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| For this rather forbidding Govanhill RC church, see Churches |
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| Coplaw St, looking towards Govanhill Park, where we began this section. Forsyth House on right, one of many Community Health Partnership schemes in Glasgow |
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| Looking back up Cathcart rd |
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| Larkfield Community Centre. See http://govanhill.eveningtimes.co.uk/mini-sites/larkfield-centre/ |
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| Something to do with the Millenium |
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| Patient pigeons. Like their pals in Govanhill Park across the road (see top of post), they know they will be fed |
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| Cathcart Rd on the right now leads you to the Gorbals - see http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/04/gorbals.html |
