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Jan 31, 2024 · The exhibition opens on Saturday February 3 and runs until May 11 2024, at Maryhill Burgh Halls, 10-24 Gairbraid Avenue G20 8YE. Entry is free. Opening hours are 10am-5pm on weekdays – with late opening to 7.30pm on Thursdays - and 10am-4pm on Saturdays. Closed Sundays.
Glasgow, Rolland Street. No longer exists due to major road restructuring of the area. Depicted on OS map 1:2500, NS 5767, 1951.
Looking up old Rolland Street. Maryhill. - Anne Mckellar. We lived here for a while with my parents and grandparents - sad to see this. I lived at 138 at the corner of Vernon st. till 1960, Nelly Bone's shop was 1 block up Vernon. Lived in 32 rolland st 1970-73. My husband John Fletcher stayed in no 18 in 1968.
- The Glass Industry
- The Kelvin Aqueduct
- The Botany
- Maryhill Burgh Halls
- Maryhill Docks
But a minimum of two pieces of evidence is required to make a case, and Maryhill has at least such in that. Like Venice, it was also the centre of the glass industry. Indeed Murano Street, overlooking a canal as important as any in Venice, was named after the Italian city?s main glass manufactory. In addition Maryhill was the location of one of the...
Until the Forth and Clyde canal came along, there was very little thereabouts apart from the rural estates of several leading Glasgow families – and some light industry such as paper making along the River Kelvin. But the Kelvin was soon superseded by the canal, the triumph of the latter symbolised by the mighty Kelvin Aqueduct built from 1787-90 w...
Maryhill was a wild place in the early years of the industrial revolution, and an area of the town consisting of lodging houses and public houses was known as The Botany, (Butney in local parlance and today commemorated in a greasy spoon joint called The Butney Bite). This area was possibly so-called as it produced so many souls who were destined f...
Many of the graves in the churchyard were desecrated by the over enthusiastic demolition squad, who flattened them into the general rubble when the church itself was demolished, and I have failed to locate Millar’s grave. These rubbled ruins lie opposite the Butney. But if Millar has no surviving commemoration, many of Maryhill’s other workers do, ...
On the left are soon seen Maryhill docks, locks and dry dock – with the associated Kelvin Aquedect- one of the biggest complex of canal construction associated with the entire feat of engineering a canal across Scotland. Still standing too is The White House, a pub dating from the days of canal construction. However a canalbank hotel built for thos...
Maryhill (Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc Màiri) is an area in the north-west of Glasgow in Scotland. A former independent burgh and the heart of an eponymous local authority ward , its territory is bisected by Maryhill Road, part of the A81 road which runs for a distance of roughly three miles (five kilometres) between Glasgow city centre and the ...
May 11, 2023 · In partnership with the Glasgow Times, our archivists are exploring Glasgow's fascinating history. This week, Nerys Tunnicliffe writes about Maryhill. Originally outside of the city boundaries Maryhill grew from lands of various gentry estates into a thriving village, then into a burgh, only being absorbed into Glasgow in 1891.
Old Maryhill & Old Glasgow. 2,938 likes · 31 talking about this. This page has been formed to share old Maryhill in particular and old Glasgow in general. Glimpses of our past, long gone and recent....
