'How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.'
- John Aubrey
'Oh roads we used to tread,
Fra' Maryhill to Pollokshaws - fra' Govan to Parkhead!
- Kipling, 'McAndrew's Hymn'
'Photography can be a mirror and reflect life as it is, but I also think that perhaps it is possible to walk like Alice, through a looking-glass, observe the puzzles in one’s head and find another kind of world with the camera.' - Tony Ray-Jones
Welcome to my wee photoblog on Glasgow, where we feature the joys and unjoys of walking and cycling through a fascinating, beautiful and often badly run city. For the blog's origin and a list of all posts see the 'Introduction' post -
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/02/introduction.html
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Today is 5 January, 2018, and we are in Govan. For more on Govan see
Govan Open Doors Day 3: Fairfield Govan Heritage Centre (and Govan Market)
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/govan-open-doors-day-3-fairfield-govan.html
Govan Old Parish Church -
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/govan-open-doors-day-1-pearce.html
Pearce Institute
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/govan-open-doors-day-2-govan-old-parish.html
Govan Cross
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/govan-cross.html
Govan
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2010/04/govan.html
Govan 2: from Ibrox Underground via McTear's to Govan Underground
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/govan-2-from-ibrox-underground-via.html
Govan Underground to Ibrox Underground: 40th anniversary of the Ibrox Stadium Disaster
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.com/2011/01/govan-underground-to-ibrox-underground.html
Kinning Park and Govan and Tradeston: the Loyalist Borderlands
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/kinning-park-and-govan-and-tradeston.html
Ahmadi Mosque to Govan to Ahmadi Mosque
http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/ahmadi-mosque-to-govan-to-ahmadi-mosque.html
We are staring across the Clyde at the Riverside Museum. See http://glasgowalbum.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/riverside-museum-danny-macaskill-and.html
Heading to river
Still mist on the river
A panorama
Commemerative stones laid down in rcent years are fading into history
Planted by Prince Phillip 1977
Planted by the Queen 1977
Moving on
Looking back
Dog stick
As far as we can go for now.
Heading back. Harland Way was launched in 2012. See http://www.clydewaterfront.com/our-journey/news-archive/2012/harland-way-opens
'Residents have been celebrating the completion of a £1.3m facelift which include a new walkway at Govan Riverside.
People in Govan joined in the celebrations of the Big Launch which marked the official opening of the new Harland Way walkway.
It was named by young people in tribute to the former Govan shipyard Harland and Wolff.
The improvement work has included 15 new sculptures on the Riverside by artist Matt Baker, a new playpark and the launch of the Govan Fairway project celebrating the show people of the area.
The environmental improvement works were carried out by Glasgow Housing Association, Glasgow City Council and Ayrshire based Land Engineering.
The housing association's south area committee has also agreed to fund the refurbishment of the nearby Riverside Halls.'
One of the sculptures
We are on the sad remnants of Doomster Hill. This place for c. 1000 years was one of the great power sites of these islands, a site of assembly fot the Brythonic kingdom of Strathclyde, the people known in Welsh tradition as 'the Men of the North' For what Doomster Hill looked like in the 19th centiory see
https://earlymedievalgovan.wordpress.com/tag/doomster-hill/
From the site (absolutely fascinating, read the whole thing) -
'The Doomster Hill was a massive artifical mound that dominated the Govan landscape until its destruction in the mid-nineteenth century. The above illustration from 1757 shows it with a tiered or ‘stepped’ profile, a shape characteristic of sites used as assembly-places in the Viking period. It seems likely that it acquired this profile on the orders of the kings of Strathclyde, perhaps around AD 900 when the kingdom had close political contact with powerful Viking warlords in Dublin who had a man-made mound of similar shape. . .'
My shopping trolley
The hill was alas levelled in the early 19th century.
Planted by Provost Hodge. I was one of the few protestors in George Square in 1979 when he invited the South African ambassador to lunch at the City Chambers. Afterwards he remarked to journalists that people couldn't be expected to come 'down from trees and govern themselves'. This was a Labour Lord Provost folks, in 1979. Subsequently Michael Kelly made amends by campaigning for Mandela to be given the Freedom of the City. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22976781
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