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Queen's Park (Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc na Banrìghinn, Scots: Queen's Pairk) is a park situated on the south side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland, between Strathbungo, Shawlands, Battlefield, Mount Florida, and Crosshill The 60-hectare (148-acre) park lies about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) south of the city centre, [1] and gives its name to a nearby railway station and several other local ...
Hutchesontown C was a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of Hutchesontown, a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Its centrepiece were two Brutalist 20-storey slab blocks at 16-32 Queen Elizabeth Square, designed by Sir Basil Spence and containing 400 homes. Acclaimed by architects and modernists, the flats became riddled ...
The loss of Scotland games to the other venues in Glasgow forced Queen's Park to consider increasing the capacity of the second Hampden. [3] In the late 1890s, Queen's Park requested more land for development, but this was refused by the landlords. The club acquired a new site, the present site of Hampden Park, from Henry Erskine Gordon in 1899.
In 1999, due to a decline in the congregation, plans were made to merge Crosshill Queen's Park with Strathbungo Queen's Park. The final service at Crosshill Queen's Park Church was held on Sunday, 13 February 2000, while the union of the parishes came into effect on 16 February. [3] Consequently, the Crosshill Queen's Park Church building was ...
Queens Park railway station is a railway station serving the Queen's Park, Govanhill and Strathbungo areas of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the Cathcart Circle Line . Services are provided by ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport .
The Park District area is bordered by the City Centre, Kelvingrove, Kelvingrove Park and Woodlands. Park Circus was built between 1855 and 1863. [2] Many of the area's large townhouses that were converted to offices during the latter half of the 20th century are being returned to residential use. It was declared a Conservation Area in 1970. [3]
Parkhouse forms part of the edge of the Glasgow urban area, occupying an area of land to the south of Parkhouse Road (B773), a main route running east–west between southern Glasgow and the town of Barrhead in East Renfrewshire which lies about 1 mile (2 km) to the west. Named after the long-established Parkhouse Farm, which still stands ...
In 1983, the Presbytery of Glasgow had agreed on a Basis of Association, an agreement between Strathbungo Queen's Park and Camphill Queen's Park (present-day Camphill Queen's Park Baptist Church), that upon the retirement or resignation of either church minister, the Strathbungo Queen's Park building would close and the congregation would move ...