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Following a generous donation Sir William Burrell, in the form of cash as well a collection of seventeenth-century Scottish furniture in the late 1920s, the house was bought by the specially-formed Provand's Lordship Society, whose aim was to protect it. [1] In 1978, the building was acquired by the City of Glasgow District Council who restored ...
Kelvingrove House pictured by Thomas Annan in 1870. Kelvingrove House was a substantial mansion in north-west Glasgow, Scotland. The house now gives its name to an entire district of the city, and a major park.
The school closed in 1979 and reopened as a museum in 1990. Activities and exhibits at the museum include an opportunity to participate in a Victorian classroom situation, with employed actors playing teachers who impose strict discipline. [3] The school is the subject of a 2018 documentary by Margaret Moore, Scotland Street School Remembers ...
The old village of Easterhouse was not developed with the new estate and declined. The old railway station was demolished (later replaced with a modern station building), together with a small number of the houses. The 1950s-1970s housing was an improvement from the tightly packed tenements that many people moved to Easterhouse from.
The High School of Glasgow is a private, co-educational day school in Glasgow, Scotland. The original High School of Glasgow was founded as the choir school of Glasgow Cathedral in around 1124, and is the oldest school in Scotland, [1] and the twelfth oldest in the United Kingdom. On its closure as a selective grammar school by Glasgow City ...
Main building of old High School (1846), became Strathclyde House 8. Strathclyde Regional Council was created in 1975. The council initially rented offices called Melrose House at 19 Cadogan Street in Glasgow to act as an interim headquarters pending a decision being taken on a permanent headquarters.
Househillwood is close to the centre of the Pollok district and is often considered to be part of 'Greater Pollok' (a ward of Glasgow City Council), although the construction of Househillwood in the 1930s (about 800 homes) [1] predates the Pollok scheme's main period of building after World War II.
Pollokshaws Clock Tower, located on Pleasance Street, is the surviving part of the old Town House, built in 1803. There was a ground-floor school with a court-room and a police cell above it. From 1818, the Town House building also housed a library.