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Milngavie was a rural town with considerable industry, especially in the textile printing and papermaking trades. The GD&HR was the first railway in the area north west of Glasgow, but the benefits of railway connection, in reducing the cost of commodities like coal and agricultural supplies, and in facilitating transport of manufactured goods ...
In 1952 after some 15 years in the wilderness, West purchased the now hallowed ground at Burnbrae in Milngavie – though it would take a further 8 years, and significant effort and expenditure before the first game was played at Burnbrae. The first game was played against local rivals Glasgow High School FP.
Milngavie (/ m ʌ l ˈ ɡ aɪ / ⓘ mul-GHY; [3] Scottish Gaelic: Muileann-Ghaidh) [4] is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland and a suburb of Glasgow. It is on the Allander Water , at the northwestern edge of Greater Glasgow , and about ten kilometres (six miles) from Glasgow city centre .
Milngavie railway station serves the town of Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow in Scotland. The station is sited 9 miles 35 chains (15.2 km) from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Maryhill. [3] The station is managed by ScotRail, who also operate all services at the station, along the North Clyde and Argyle lines.
The council was based at Boclair, 100 Milngavie Road, Bearsden. [5] The building had been built in 1890–1891 as a care home called the Buchanan Retreat. [6] It had then been bought by the old Bearsden Town Council in 1960 and converted into that council's headquarters, being formally opened by Princess Margaret on 31 May 1962.
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In preparation for the 2020–21 Scottish League One season, Thistle trained at Burnbrae Stadium in Milngavie, which is the home of rugby union club West of Scotland FC. Notable former players [ edit ]
Milngavie is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the East Dunbartonshire Council.It elects three Councillors. Its territory (which has not altered since its creation in 2007) consists of the entire burgh of Milngavie, and a sparsely populated hinterland to its north-west, bordering the West Dunbartonshire and Stirling local authority areas.