Glasgow Parks

[Glesga_Steve]

Here's a link to the streetview image - I'll have a look through the pics I took on last year's NY wander but I don't think I'll have the sign.

That looks like a park sign to me. Another one I hadn't heard of!

[Josef]

Nah, that link looks fine, Alan. Post a photo and you're in there.

[MungoDundas]

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Passed Glenconner Park on Royston Road today. This is the normal bit, further West there is a well appointed play park.
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#56 : Glenconner Park

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I’ll re-try the snaps of Oran St & Cresswell St mini-playparks that failed previously.
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[cumbo]

#57 : Cathkin Park home of the mighty HI HI

Third Lanark FC

[moonbeam]

Could Cathkin Park not be used for training for the 2014 games?

[cumbo]

Yes moonbeam as long as Buckfast drinking is going to be a sport by then.

[banjo]

aw,dont start me greetin cumbo.i may be a bankie but my old man was a thirds man fae the gorbals and my brother and i spent many a time at cathkin as kids with him and my granda.STILL SEEING RED.

[fatweegee]

Tunnel Park, Linthouse

[Ally Doll]

#30 : Early Braes Park - Baillieston Road, Barrachnie (not really part of any 'local' area though i suppose) (GSV)

From the Glenduffhill Road entrance.

[MungoDundas]

Please see a Vague e-snap from my pocket camera, shot the other
night, whilst buzzing passed Temple Park on Fulton St. nr. Anniesland.

#58 : Temple Park
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My cheap camera can't ameliorate the orange cast of the sodium streetlights,
however the necessary signage is visible after a fashion.

[Mori]

These flickr images are listed as Yorkhill park, done a wee GSV search cant seem to find an entrance to the park,Ferry Rd to Old Dumbarton Rd is comming up as Yorkhill park on the ariel images. anyone know about this park?

[Glesga_Steve]

These flickr images are listed as Yorkhill park, done a wee GSV search cant seem to find an entrance to the park,Ferry Rd to Old Dumbarton Rd is comming up as Yorkhill park on the ariel images. anyone know about this park?

This web page describes a walk from Partick Cross to St. Vincent Crescent (and back again) via Yorkhill Park...

The walk can conveniently start and end at Kelvin Hall Underground Station. Head southwards down Benalder Street and across the River Kelvin to the back of Yorkhill Hospital, where the restored Wheatsheaf Building, a former Partick granary, is now flats. Note the wheatsheaf sculptures on the roof and the old jib hoist. From here turn south (right) down Ferry Road past new flats and a leftwards turn into Yorkhill Park takes you behind Yorkhill Hospital and on to Kelvinhaugh Primary School, built in Victoria's Jubilee in 1887. From here head rightwards downhill along Sandyford Street towards the expressway.

The above description seems to suggest that you would access the park at the side of the David Wilson Homes development on Ferry Road and exit it at the junction of Sandyford Street and Gilbert Street. It looks to me as though there may be another entrance/exit at the junction of Old Dumbarton Road / Ferry Road / Benalder Street.

It seems the park itself may be railway property rather than council owned. GCC apparently downgraded its park status a few years ago and, judging from what I've read, it doesn't currently serve any significant purpose in terms of being a recreational space. It appears that David Wilson Homes were required to undertake some improvement works within the park as part of the planning conditions associated with their development.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Yorkhill park

Glesga Steve and Viceroy give a bit more detail here

[viceroy]

The above description seems to suggest that you would access the park at the side of the David Wilson Homes development on Ferry Road and exit it at the junction of Sandyford Street and Gilbert Street. It looks to me as though there may be another entrance/exit at the junction of Old Dumbarton Road / Ferry Road / Benalder Street.

I think the access road beside the housing development on Ferry Road may well have locked gates at the end of it. The other entrance on Old Dumbarton Road, where the steps are, is how I have always entered the park (or exited from it). The fence cutting the park in two, which I mentioned in a previous post, has a gap in it and this allows you cut through to where the school is on the corner of Sandyford Street and Gilbert St. As I also mentioned, the park, particularly at the bottom of the hill, is pretty much a wilderness now and is not really an attractive place to linger.

[Mori]

Mansfield Park Partick was being refurbed, any one know if the redevelopment stage has been completed ?