place

Glasgow Botanic Gardens

1817 establishments in Scotland1817 in scienceArboreta in ScotlandBotanical gardens in ScotlandCategory A listed buildings in Glasgow
Gardens in GlasgowGreenhouses in the United KingdomHillheadInventory of Gardens and Designed LandscapesRose gardens in ScotlandScience and technology in GlasgowUse British English from April 2017
Glasgow Botanic Gardens logo
Glasgow Botanic Gardens logo

Glasgow Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland. It features several glasshouses, the most notable of which is the Kibble Palace. The Gardens has a wide variety of temperate and tropical flora, a herb garden, a chronological bed with plants arranged according to their introduction to Scotland, the UK's national collection of tree ferns, and a world rose garden officially opened in 2003 by Princess Tomohito of Mikasa.The River Kelvin runs along the north side of the Gardens and continues through Kelvingrove Park, the Kelvin walkway providing an uninterrupted walking route between the two green spaces. The Botanic Gardens was awarded a Green Flag Award in 2011.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Glasgow Botanic Gardens (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Great Western Road, Glasgow Hillhead

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Website External links Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Glasgow Botanic GardensContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 55.8793 ° E -4.29066 °
placeShow on map

Address

Glasgow Botanic Gardens

Great Western Road 730
G12 0UE Glasgow, Hillhead
Scotland, United Kingdom
mapOpen on Google Maps

Website
glasgowbotanicgardens.com

linkVisit website

linkWikiData (Q894634)
linkOpenStreetMap (302459223)

Glasgow Botanic Gardens logo
Glasgow Botanic Gardens logo
Share experience

Nearby Places

Western Baths

The Western Baths Club is a Victorian era private swimming and leisure club founded in 1876. The club remains at its original site at 12 Cranworth Street, Hillhead, Glasgow. The 19th-century baths, designed by Glasgow architects Clarke & Bell, are protected as a category A listed building. Along with the Arlington Baths it is one of two clubs of its kind left in Glasgow. In recent years the club acquired adjacent ground and erected a new building to house a modern sports hall and gym thereby further enhancing the Club's facilities. It is also a founding member of the Historic Pools of Britain. The Baths are distinctive for their period trapeze and exercise rings over the swimming pool. The 'Baths' as they are more commonly known have survived through mix fortunes over their many years of existence. Having at one point closed and lay almost derelict but were reopened, a similar fate nearly closed the Baths in the 1970s known as "the day the roof fell in". The huge Victorian roof collapsed at the shallow end of the pool and with the Cochrane oil-fired boiler rarely working, the whole place was trading at a loss and the membership rapidly dwindling. The Secretary William M Mann CBE, secured advance funding. The position of Bathsmaster was simply manager but the title referred to those of Victorian swimming pools/clubs. In its long life there were only been five postholders; Campbell, Jamieson, Wilson and Anderson. The Baths will continue to have a manager, but the term has changed to general manager (a title previously held by Mr Campbell, who was promoted to general manager, and for a brief period in the 1980s Mr McKellar) who had overall control of all aspects of the club. The new position of general manager was awarded to Fraser Makeham, who spent just short of 12 years with the 'Baths' until his resignation; he was succeeded by Mr Lee Ross, who was the deputy general manager; however, Mr Ross has now accepted the post of facilities manager, with Graham Butler McIntosh taking up the post as general manager. W M Mann died in December 2019. Changed days since Alison F Blood with her book Kelvinside Days, she wrote, "there were of course other baths in Glasgow, but the Western Baths were simply known as the 'Baths' and no one would have thought otherwise..."

Curlers Rest
Curlers Rest

The Curlers Rest, formerly the Curlers Tavern, is the oldest drinking establishment on Byres Road, Glasgow, Scotland. 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 the large pond, which could be found nearby. Every winter curlers came to play on the ice. Furthermore, the Partick Curling Club (established in 1842) had its pond here in 1848. There is also a legend associated with the pub which claims that King Charles II came riding one cold winter’s day towards Glasgow on what was then a lonely highway and "spotting the inviting hostelry called a halt for refreshments. Finding it shuttered and barred, the landlord was quickly rousted out and told to open up in the name of the King which he did with the satisfaction that "the Merry Monarch bestowed upon the inn the right, by Royal Charter, to be open day and night, Sundays included, in perpetuity". The Charter is rumoured to survive today in Register House in Edinburgh. As you look at the building from the front, there are three doors. In the past there were three bars here, the door on the left leading through the lounge bar, the door on the right to the small snug, and the door in the middle leading upstairs to the hall space/banqueting area above. From 1999 till June 2010 the pub was a Scream pub geared firmly towards students. It was then refurbished and rebranded as the Curler's Rest.