Sandyford, Glasgow
Sandyford | |
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View from Sauchiehall Street looking south to Sikh gurudwara, Tron church and Glasgow Gaelic School, 2019 | |
Location within Glasgow | |
OS grid reference | NS576658 |
Council area | |
Lieutenancy area |
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Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | GLASGOW |
Postcode district | G3 7 / G3 8 |
Dialling code | 0141 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
UK Parliament | |
Scottish Parliament | |
Sandyford is an area of
History
The area was a country estate outside Glasgow and north of the former
By the turn of the 20th century, the area was entirely built upon with all available space directly north of the river at Lancefield,
Much changed in the latter 20th century. Many of the townhouses in the area around Sauchiehall Street were converted to office use, with one block demolished and replaced by a modernist office block out of keeping with the rest of the architecture other than in its height;
, replaced by new buildings for Woodside Secondary School previously located further north at
21st Century
In the early 21st century, the area's profile changed again, with Woodside Secondary closing in 1999 and
Owing to its location between the tourist areas of Glasgow city centre, the West End (centred on Byres Road) and the entertainment venues at the SEC Centre, a large number of hotels are present among tenements near to Kelvingrove Park, mostly on Sauchiehall Street.[b] There are also several established restaurants[c] and bars,[40][41][42] a provision which increased markedly in the 2010s as the wider area (usually marketed as Finnieston) around Argyle Street became more popular as a destination in its own right.[43][44]
The local Sandyford Post Office is also in this area on Argyle Street, and further west is The
There are three railway stations in the vicinity of Sandyford:
See also
Notes
- ^ a b The ward had a roughly triangular territory extending from the point where Argyle Street and Sauchiehall Street connected near to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and which included parts of Anderston south of St. Vincent Street and parts of the city centre (as far east as Pitt Street) which have been physically detached by redevelopment including the building of the M8 motorway, with those major roads forming natural borders for the smaller Sandyford area ending at North Street.[1]
- ^ [30][31][32][33][34][35]
- ^ [36][37][38][39]
References
- ^ Ward 14 (Valuation Rolls: List of Wards 1913-1914), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Industrial Revolution: 1770s to 1830s: Neighbourhoods: Anderston, The Glasgow Story
- ^ map of Kelvingrove area (1832), Glasgow West-end Addresses and their Occupants 1836-1915
- ^ Sandyford House, 4 Sandyford Road, Glasgow West-end Addresses and their Occupants 1836-1915
- ^ OS Six-inch 1st edition, 1843-1882, Explore georeferenced maps (National Library of Scotland)
- ^ Glasgow, Bart PO 1900, Explore georeferenced maps (National Library of Scotland)
- ^ City Views: Somerset Place, Sauchiehall Street (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections, Wylie Collection, Allan & Ferguson, 1843), The Glasgow Story
- ^ City Views: Royal Crescent, Glasgow (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections, Wylie Collection, Allan & Ferguson, 1843), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Industrial Revolution: 1770s to 1830s: Neighbourhoods: Blythswood, The Glasgow Story
- ^ OS 25 inch Scotland, 1892-1905, Explore georeferenced maps (National Library of Scotland)
- ^ Second City of The Empire: 1830s to 1914: Neighbourhoods: Anderston, The Glasgow Story
- ^ St Andrew's Halls (Glasgow University Archive Services, Building Photographs, 1920), The Glasgow Story
- ^ a b St. Andrew's Halls (Mitchell Library, Theatre Collection, 1907), The Glasgow Story
- ^ a b Kent Road UP Church (Burrell Collection Photo Library, 1875), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Sandyford UP Church (Glasgow University Library, Theology, 1875), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Berkeley Street UP Church (Burrell Collection Photo Library, 1875), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Trinity Church, Clairmont Street, Sandyford, Glasgow West-end Addresses and their Occupants 1836-1915
- ^ Kent Road School (Glasgow City Archives, Department of Education, 1916), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Finnieston Secondary School (Glasgow City Archives, Department of Education, 1970), The Glasgow Story
- ^ ISBN 9780140710694
- ^ Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church of Scotland. Parish Profile 2017 (PDF). Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ The New Anderston (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Bulletin Photographs, 1980), The Glasgow Story
- ^ OS National Grid Maps, 1944-1967, Explore georeferenced maps (National Library of Scotland)
- ^ Dalian House (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, 2003), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Brown, Craig (22 August 2006). "Gaelic first as £4m new campus offers education for ages 3 to 18". The Scotsman. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ The Tron at Kelvingrove, The Tron Church
- Evening Times, 29 May 2012
- ^ "About us". Central Gurdwara Glasgow. 14 July 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ Sikh Temple (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, 2003), The Glasgow Story
- ^ Welcome, Kelvingrove Hotel
- ^ Welcome to the Sandyford Hotel, Sandyford Hotel Glasgow
- ^ Home, Argyll Hotel Glasgow
- ^ About Us, Lorne Hotel Glasgow
- ^ Welcome to the Sandyford Lodge Hotel, The Sandyford Lodge
- ^ Welcome to the Devoncote Hotel, Devoncote Hotel
- ^ Welcome to Pickled Ginger, Pickled Ginger Finnieston
- ^ Welcome to Strip Joint, Strip Joint Glasgow
- ^ Our Story, Fanny Trollopes
- ^ Cracking Good Food, Crabshakk
- ^ Bar Crawls: Glasgow - The Sauchiehall Street Saunter, The List, 18 November 2011
- ^ Seven of the best bars in Finnieston: Take a trip into Glasgow's 'new west end', Glasgow Live, 20 January 2017
- ^ 5 of the best pubs in Glasgow’s Finnieston, The Scotsman, 30 January 2018
- ^ Why Glasgow's Finnieston neighbourhood is now up there with London's Shoreditch, Evening Times, 23 November 2015
- ^ Is This Part of Glasgow Really 'the Hippest Place in Britain'?, Vice, 11 April 2016
- ^ "Parish: Glasgow Sandyford Henderson Memorial" (PDF). Statistics for Mission. Church of Scotland. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ^ Anderston Kelvingrove Parish Church gets noticed, Secret Scotland, 1 October 2018
- ^ Where are our Services, NHS Sandyford
- ^ "Re-opening of Finnieston Railway Station considered 101 years after closure". Glasgow Live. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2019.