NEWS IN BRIEF BUNGO PEOPLE - SARAH REID The Strathbungo Society Sarah Reid has always known Strathbungo from her earliest the Glad having taken over the kitchen, and more space for A quarterly newsletter age - growing up just down the road in Kenmure Street. She the café. Autumn 2020 A round up of all things Strathbungo: this quarter’s bite-sized Bungo business! says ‘I always loved Strathbungo since being a child. We had always lived in tenements and we didn’t know many people What are Sarah’s hopes and aspirations for the Glad which who lived in houses.’ will soon have been a feature in our Southside lives for a decade? She wants ‘to continue to build on the amazing and THE FORMER STRATHBUNGO RAILWAY https://glasgowspacesforpeople. The freshly redesigned restaurant area Sarah’s life and career took her to London where she worked strong foundation we have, be a firm part of the community, commonplace.is/comments. Some repeat contains a newly painted mural by GSA in the Whitechapel Gallery and then nine years ago she and and give people more access to brilliant discussions, music STATION UNDER THREAT OF DEMOLITION (and ask what has happened to) proposals graduate, Molly Hankinson, featuring her partner moved back to Scotland - ‘We wanted to live on and culture’, seeing the Glad as part of a cultural ‘support that were made during the Pollokshields a woman holding two burgers, which the Southside and I wanted to live in Strathbungo, we flyered structure’ for artists and audiences in the Southside and Charrette in 2016. Others are completely is a larger version of her “Hands off my all the houses’ - into Regent Park Square. beyond. Thanks to Sarah and her efforts and energies, new. The cluster of proposals around the Burgers” piece. Strathbungo is an even more interesting place to live and the Nithsdale Rd Bridge are very relevant Freddy and Hicks is run by Anna and Suzy With four children - Islay, Keir, Sorley and Finn - life has future of the Glad will surely be even more vibrant. to our negotiations with Network Rail Robertson and has come to Strathbungo always been hectic, and five years ago she decided to organise about its proposed changes (see above). via Borough Market, Swansea, and Window Wanderland in the Bungo. ‘The idea’, she says Potential, online platforms like this could Platform under the arches at Central was that ‘Strathbungo would be the perfect place for this. be a great way to share ideas in future. Station. Everyone pulling together and creating something magical.’ It is open Wednesday to Friday 4-8.30pm Sarah then went on to work for the Jupiter Artland sculpture and Saturday 12-8.30pm for take-away, park near Edinburgh – where she was the community curator outdoor seating and delivery, and will working with young people ‘aiding opportunities in the arts extend opening hours once fully open in careers and development’. indoors in September. You’ll find a PURPLE BIN ENTREPRENEURS selection of handmade burgers and This year has seen her return to one of her major loves – With their parents’ lockdown purple bins loaded fries, which always include tasty taking over running the Glad Café – a place special to lots of overflowing, local boys Jonathan and choices for vegetarians and vegans. us in bringing arts, culture, music, ideas, food and drink to Ethan, prior to starting University, saw an the Southside – and which was set up by her mum Rachel and opportunity to make some money out of brother Joe in 2012. local adults in lockdown. From Titwood QUEENS PARK GLASSHOUSE Road to Regent Park Square, the boys You may have seen these notices popping The Glad has been shut during lockdown but reopened its have been wheeling purple bins from up in Queens Park in recent weeks, asking doors on the first Friday of September with two new chefs, Strathbungo to the Kildrostan Street glass for support to ensure that the glasshouse recycling bins and have made a tidy sum and dome can be preserved, refurbished, out of people’s “empties” - Neighbours and restored. It is another iconic Southside were initially reluctant, but with a photo structure at risk of not being sustainable ‘TO AGM OR NOT TO AGM’ … IS on a Facebook post, the scheme spiralled long term, and Glasgow City Council have STRATHBUNGO NEIGHBOURS and they’ve now done a number of appealed for interested parties to contact FORM ECO GROUP NOT THE QUESTION customers more than once! Watch out for [email protected]. Inspired by cleaner lockdown air and these two on Dragon’s Den! uk to express interest. Keep an eye open audible birdsong, a group of neighbours While the path of Covid-19 continues to work through the beginning of November to approve the accounts and elect a for updates on next steps on saving the have formed an eco-group to organise world, uncertainty about the future continues. As of now, in new committee. Any volunteers will be welcome (contact Glasshouse as we know it. ways of making our community more the Autumn of 2020, it still remains very difficult to anticipate [email protected] ) For over thirty years Susie’s store was housed in the former of this consultation. They say it is not economically viable to sustainable. They’d like to invite whether physical actual events will be able to take place or not. Strathbungo railway station – one of the landmark buildings repair the building to a lettable standard and have already Strathbungo neighbours to join them But at the same time democracy CAN’T stand still or we would WATCH OUT FOR SOCIAL MEDIA AND POSTERS - WE in Strathbungo - which opened on 1 December 1877 and closed removed internal fittings from the building. in potential initiatives such as creating not be democratic. The Strathbungo Society is bound by its WILL MEET IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY BUT on 28 May 1962. and supporting green space in our area constitution to have an AGM toward the of October or STRATHBUNGO WILL GO ON. The official reasoning for this is rail electrification – a logic to promote biodiversity, water drainage This historic building still has the same shape and frame as which threatens the recently refurbished railway bridge. The issues, and identifying opportunities to the original station and forms part of our local history. It was society are pursuing alternatives: a feasibility study, the work with the community and the council. therefore a shock that in the midst of lockdown Network Rail lowering of the track thus avoiding the need for demolition, With the quieter streets of lockdown, STRATHBUNGO NEWS announced out of the blue in July that the building was to be and the building being listed with Historic Scotland. COMMONPLACE AND there is an additional focus on promoting demolished two weeks from their statement - with no warning STRATHBUNGO overall health and longer-term reduction and consultation. Niall Murphy of Glasgow City Heritage Trust said of the During lockdown, Commonplace was used of pollution. The group also hopes to Published quarterly by building: ‘It straddles the gap between the Strathbungo and to ask people across Glasgow to identify share information and potentially create The Strathbungo Society Contributors Janes Carolan, Niall Murphy, Andrew This declaration, in the style we have become accustomed to East Pollokshields Conservation Areas and sits next to Moray locations that could be improved for collective buying-power for things like Registered Charity No. SC038276 Greg, Vivienne Wilson, Gerry Hassan, James from Network Rail, was challenged by local residents with Place - an ‘A’ listed building’ with Network Rail’s actions walking, cycling and physical distancing. SUPER STREET FOOD HITS solar panels and heat pumps. If you’re Spooner, Audra Merrick, Paola Rezzilli; Elaine a petition being quickly established, questions asked by making a mockery of this’. The consultation closed in July and, while STRATHBUNGO interested, email strathbungoecogroup@ www.strathbungo.co.uk Walker, Rita Clarke councillors and parliamentarians, and a drop-in session held nothing has been done in our area, it’s Freddy and Hicks, the female-led food gmail.com to request to join the outside the station organised by Paula Khan (who also set up This is a part of our heritage, a connection back to the origins worth viewing the comments collective which specialises in veggie WhatsApp group. Layout Katherine Cory Send letters and brief articles of general interest the petition) on the future of the building. of Strathbungo as the community it became. Network Rail’s burgers and loaded fries has opened in Distribution Imelda Devlin to: [email protected] continual cavalier attitude invites us to ask how do they plan Nithsdale Road, replacing Pot Belly. Network Rail postponed the demolition – calling it ‘paused’ to preserve and protect railway heritage? And to the residents for now – to allow for consultation with the Society and local what would we like to see this building and space used for? Let residents but as we go to press, there has been no sign or news us know your thoughts and we will keep you posted. BUNGO (NOT) IN THE BACK LANES STRATHBUNGO IN GLASGOW DOORS LANGSIDE HALLS – BYGONE BUNGO OPEN DAYS DIGITAL FESTIVAL Could the future be online The other first was our very own tailor-made online Standing at the south-west corner of Queens Park, it is marketplace on the Bungo Blog. We had over 2.5k visits to the Strathbungo and Glasgow’s Southside feature strongly in brought up his family there. It is now Grade A listed. Lots of curious to think of a link between Langside Halls and the marketplaces? marketplace on the day, which is an amazing achievement.