Welcome to my wee photoblog on Glasgow, where we feature the joys and unjoys of walking and cycling through a fascinating, beautiful and often badly run city. For the blog's origin and an alphabetical list of posts see the 'Introduction' post - For later Gorbals entries, see Gorbals 2 Gorbals 3  |
| This is us heading down Cathcart Rd towards Gorbals from Govanhill on the afternoon of the Scottish Cup final 15 May 2010; see http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/04/govanhill.html and http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/05/hampden-park-dundee-united-v-ross.html Note The Glasgow Boys poster on taxi for the exhibition at Kelvingrove Museum - fab exhibition |
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| Actually, we'll still be in Govanhill for a while, but a Govanhill with no houses. Railway building on left |
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| Road expansion going on |
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| Railway tracks (obviously) |
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| Red, white and blue cranes - is someone making a point? |
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| On our left: this will be a road some day |
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| View back |
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| No idea what this is - it clings to the ground like the alien on John Hurt's face |
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| 'Dalmarnock' - more of a Mordor than a Shire word |
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| Some forms of martial art make a thing about being essentially peaceful. That's probably not what's going on here. |
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We are at the junction of Caledonia Rd (on your left) - and Aikenhead Rd (on your right). Straight ahead is the Kidston Terrace block of flats that epitomises the 'New Gorbals'. The Gorbals (like Calton) has had a bad press, but has a thriving community - see www.gorbalslive.org.uk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbals The Gorbals has some marvellous buildings and churches, a world-famous theatre (see Citizens), one of the biggest mosques in Europe (see Churches etc), and the shell of one the finest religious buildings anywhere |
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| Aikenhead Road |
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| This is 'the Gatekeeper' |
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| There's a few of these sculptures on the wall - think they're called 'birdcatchers' |
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| The fabulous Alexander 'Greek' Thomson Caledonia Rd church. This shell is all that remains of one of the greatest church buildings in the world. See http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/05/alexander-greek-thomson.html |
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| The Brazen Head on left - a famous Celtic (FC) pub |
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| Now in Gorbals St. . . |
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| . . .a building screaming for renovation |
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| . . .Gorbals multistories. . . |
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| . . .and The Citizens Theatre - see also Taggart |
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| The Citizens Rose Garden |
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| Now in Norfolk St |
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| Glasgow Centre for the Deaf |
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| A Rangers pub, in case you were wondering |
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| Bridge St heading towards City Centre |
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| Bridge St Undergound - single to Kelvinbridge, please |
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/09/gorbals-2.html
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