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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 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 ...
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 station has a ticket office and ticket machines, an accessible toilet, help points, a small cafe, a payphone, bike racks and benches. There is no taxi rank, but there is a car park. A pedestrian underpass links the station to the town centre, which is also pedestrianised, and the southern end of the West Highland Way long-distance ...
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 ]
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In addition to those grounds above:- Rugby Park in Kilmarnock; [46] Old Anniesland in Glasgow; [47] Braidholm in Giffnock; [48] Whitecraigs in Newton Mearns; [49] London Road in Stranraer; [50] Burnbrae in Milngavie, [51] North Inch in Perth [52] and Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh [53] have all hosted home matches for the Glasgow side.
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.