Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The crossing, between the area of Yoker in Glasgow and the town of Renfrew in Renfrewshire, is only 200 metres, with graded slipways on each side. The service operates between 6.30 am and 9.30 pm, being on-demand at peak times and half-hourly at other times.
All stations have direct links to the city centre, terminating at Glasgow Central Station. Journey times to the city centre are under 10 minutes and services are provided by Scotrail. Shawlands is located 8.8 mi (14.2 km) from Glasgow Airport and about 24 mi (39 km) from Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
Blackwood sits adjacent to the M74 motorway - Scotland's main arterial route South to England - but remains a quiet village and a much sought-after place to stay. Blackwood is linked to (and physically runs into) the neighbouring village of Kirkmuirhill, so-much-so that there is no physical sign of where one starts and the other ends, although many argue that the line is drawn just parallel to ...
Glasgow's River Festival – two-day family event centred on the Clyde near the SECC and Science Centre. Started 2004, not held in 2010. Glasgow Cabaret Festival – week-long theatre, variety, burlesque, circus and comedy festival at various venues around Glasgow. Started 2009, not held in 2010, but was held in October 2011. [2] [3]
[15] [38] In 1958, Glasgow Corporation opened a Fire Station [39] which now houses a specialist water rescue unit. [40] Knightswood Hospital gradually lost services to other Glasgow Hospitals from the 1960s onwards, ending up as a Geriatric Unit and finally closing in March 2000. [41] The hospital site is now the Academy Park residential ...
Baillie A.G. MacDonald of Redholm gifted them to the Glasgow Corporation in 1898 as a gesture to commemorate his links with the area. They were carefully dismantled and re-erected at their present-day site. [18] The Tollcross cast-iron Victorian conservatory (NS 63659 63721), [13] is a B-Listed structure, known as the 'Winter Gardens'. It is ...
The setting was changed to Glasgow from Carrick in southwest Scotland. The novel Swing Hammer Swing! (1992) by Jeff Torrington, decades in the writing, is set in the Gorbals. The character Kristine Kochanski in the British TV series Red Dwarf grew up there – it is described as being the 'trendiest part of Glasgow' in the 23rd century (1997)
Mount Vernon is a residential area in the east end of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.It directly borders Sandyhills and Foxley to the west, while Barlanark is the closest neighbourhood to the north, Barrachnie and Baillieston to the east and Carmyle to the south, although Mount Vernon is separated from these by areas of open land, including Early Braes public park [1] and the former Kenmuir farm.