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Oh it was there all right, here are some links on the subject, Great shame if it has been broken up just to widen a road after standing there for so long :oops: http://priesthill.eveningtimes.co.uk/area/priesthill--nitshill.html http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.leiser/mansewood/eastwoodbook.htm h...

Boyd =Usage: Scottish Derived from the word buidhe which means "fair" or "blond". So Boyd means "fair or blond" and we know the stone was based on sand stone? Could this be the easy answer to the Boyd stone? Just a light coloured stone, Could there be any link to this a...

found this online Boydstone Road, Eastwood, Glasgow, Renfrewshire Posted by megalithix on March 17, 2010 Standing Stone (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – NS 540 607 Archaeology & History There is very little known of this once proud standing stone, said by one writer to have been about 12 feet lo...

Does any one have any pictures of the Boyd stone that stood on the Boydstone rd near the old Cowglen Hospital?
It was dated 1667 and and said to have been erected as a memorial to A farmer Thomas Boyd put to death in Paisley for being a covenanter
does Any one have any thing on this?

Looking for photos and histories of old Glasgow Marching bands Not everyone's cup of tea but I think they have been the elephant in the room for so long and ignored and derided at time by the news groups and media, They are a big part of Glasgow's culture both good and bad at times and I am sure the...