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During the period when Hillhead and Partick were independent burghs, Byres Road was known by its original name of Victoria Street. By the time Hillhead was annexed by Glasgow on 1 November 1891, [ 1 ] there were four different Victoria Streets in the expanded Glasgow area. [ 2 ]
A tavern is said to have been situated at this site since the 17th century, when this part of the city was still countryside. The rural connection is today only remembered in the name Byres Road, from the lands known as the Byres of Partick. The present pub is housed in an 18th-century two-story cottage-type building and derives its name from ...
Hillhead (Scots: Hullheid, Scottish Gaelic: Ceann a' Chnuic) [3] is an area of Glasgow, Scotland.Situated north of Kelvingrove Park and to the south of the River Kelvin, Hillhead is at the heart of Glasgow's fashionable West End, with Byres Road forming the western border of the area, the other boundaries being Dumbarton Road to the south and the River Kelvin to the east and north.
Amex’s study found that Devonshire Street / Division Street in Sheffield, Yorkshire took second place on the list of the best hotspots for independent shops, while the quirky and graffiti-filled ...
The West End Festival in Glasgow was started in 1996 by Michael Dale as a small local festival centred on Byres Road. It has since become the biggest festival in Glasgow's calendar with events running for 16 days in June. It has been used as a model for other festival start-ups, as with minimal local authority or Scottish Arts Council funding ...
Partick Cross Mansions. Tenements at Partick Cross. Partick Cross is a major road junction in Partick, in the west end of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. [1] The junction is the meeting point of Dumbarton Road, Byres Road, Partick Bridge Street and Coopers Well Street.
Two people have been hit by a car at a pedestrianised zone in the west end of Glasgow. Emergency services were called to Byres Road at Vinicombe Street at about 11.30 and police sealed off the area.
Queen's Place, a street typical of the area. Dowanhill is an affluent area in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland.. An upper middle-class residential district, the area generally contains a mixture of terraced townhouses with private communal gardens, detached villas with private grounds and a number of four-storey tenement buildings.