Malcolms Challenges

BLOG:  Canmore checked  As you leave Queens Park, you go past the Langside estate on Langside Avenue, shown in this photo: The first block in the estate was Tantallon Tower: This estate was built on the site of a row of villas, one of which - Holmwood (82 Langside Avenue) - was the home of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's father in the 1890s, and Charles himself lived there 1892-5. you then go onto Deanston Drive, here's an aerial view (Tantallon to left, Deanston to right): On the right as you enter Deanston Drive is St Helens Catholic Church. (1897, John Bennie Wilson). Cathcart Cemetery: buried here are ? 1991 aerial view: Halfpenny Bridge (Linn Park) c 1835. Oldest complete iron bridge in Glasgow, built as driveway to Linn House.   Linn House was built c 1828, enlarged 1852 by Charles Wilson: From the trig point you descend through the woods around the back of  Linn Crematorium, (1962, T S Cordiner) " A Beaux Arts-influenced modernist complex" Up to Cathkin Braes: (thi

HILLS OF THE WEST As you go out of Queens Park, you may pass Camphill House, built in 1806 as a private house, later a Museum of Costume and now flats: Then just outside the park is Langside Hall. This building was originally a branch of the National Bank of Scotland in Glasgow City Centre. Built 1847 and remodelled by James Salmon in 1856, it was dismantled and rebuilt in its present location in 1901.  Currently derelict. Also overlooking the park is Camphill Gate on Pollokshaws Road. This 5 storey tenement was designed in the Glasgow Style by John Nisbet in 1905. It had major repairs in 2022-3. Then, depending very much on your route choice you may pass Nos 1-10 Moray Place, designed by Alexander Greek Thomson in 1859. It is arguably the finest 19th century terrace in the city. Bellahouston Park was bought  by Glasgow Corporation in 1895, and opened as a public park in 1896. In 1938 the  Empire exhibition  was held at the park. Of the 200 palaces and pavilions that were built for th

As you leave Queens Park: The church in this photo is the Camphill Queens Park Baptist Church , built in 1876. Designed by William Leiper , it has an octagonal spire. Amongst Leiper's other buildings is Templeton Carpet Factory  (see below). You  then pass Glasgow's only Statue of Liberty, which predates the more famous statue in New York: Going up Langside Avenue you pass the sight of a Greek Thomson church (more info needed)  and then the Carnegie - funded Govanhill Library. As you come up Cathcart Road ahead of you is the Caledonia Road church, now derelict. Heres a photo with the Area E housing behind (see below): As you bear right onto Caledonia Road, you are about to enter the Gorbals. New flats are ahead of you. These replace Area E – an estate of five-storey deck-access blocks and two 24-storey towers at Sandiefield Road, constructed in 1968.  Within a few years the low-rise buildings became badly affected by dampness and condensation  (and were nicknamed "The Damp