Pollokshaws Road 3 – Strathbungo Area link to photo album

1. Marywood Square/Vennard Gardens. Mid 19th century, late Georgian tenement. B listed. 2. Lamp standards, Marywood Square. Circa 1880, probably from Oak Iron Foundry. Cast-iron lamp standard with plinth, tapering column, cross-bar and lantern lamp. Geometric detail to plinth. B listed. 3. Marywood Square/Queen Square. Mid 19th century, late Georgian tenement. B listed. 4. Queen Square. c. 1864-9. Late Georgian-style unusually long 2-storey terrace with basements. B listed. 5. Regent Park Square/Regent Square. Mid 19th century, late Georgian tenement. B listed. 6. Queen’s Drive/Balvicar Street. Mid 19th century, late Georgian tenement. Art nouveau detailing to window frames. B listed. 7. Regent Park Square (odd numbers). Built c. 1861-6. Late Georgian-style 2-storey terrace with basements. B listed. Geoffrey Boothroyd (firearms collector) - the inspiration for ‘Q’ in the Bond films, lived at no 17 (1964-56) then no 11 (1956- 71). CRM stayed at no 15 8. Regent Park Square (even numbers). Built c. 1861-5. Late Georgian-style 2-storey terrace with basements. B listed. CRM stayed at no 6. Regent Park Square was built by Daniel McNicol and was to be known initially as Annita Place, but name changed when it was constructed. 9. Regent Park Square/Nithsdale Road. Mid 19th century, late Georgian tenement. B listed. 10. Bank of Building, Torrisdale Street. Late 19th century as British Linen Bank. B listed. 11. Nithsdale Road/ Road. Later 19th century "Thomsonesque" tenement. B listed. 12. Nithsdale Street/March Street. Style of Thomson and Turnbull, circa 1880. "Thomsonesque" 3-storey corner tenement. B listed. 13. March Street. Former Renfrew Council Police Station. Not listed. 14. Nithsdale Hall, Nithsdale Drive. Alexander Skirving, 1887. Built as a Mission Hall for Queen's Park United Prebyterian church. "Thomsonesque", with tiny temple. B listed. 15. Edward VIII Post Box, Nithsdale Drive. The post box on Nithsdale Drive was made by the Carron Company, Stirlingshire (embossed signature), and was erected in 1936. One of very few remaining unaltered post boxes cast during the brief 325 day reign of Edward VIII. B listed. 16. Former Strathbungo Parish Church. Church with tower built 1886 by John McKissack (of McKissack and Rowan) who was a member of the congregation; on site of and retaining part of Charles Wilson's church of 1839. B listed. Now with modern additions and converted to residential use. 17. Allison Street/Craigie Street. A B McDonald, city engineer, 1896-7 (1896 datestone) as police station facing east, into Craigie Street and fire station facing north into Allison Street. Built by Robert Murdoch. B listed. Converted to residential use c. 1990. 18. Former Strathbungo Public School now St Bride’s Primary School. John Gordon and Thomas Baird Jr, 1893-95 (dated 1894). Built for Parish School Board. B listed. 19. Synagogue, Niddrie Road. Langside Synagogue was established in Langside Road in 1915. The Niddrie Road building - Jeffrey Waddell & Young, foundation stone laid on 2 May 1926. The synagogue came into use the following year and in 2004 it is home to the Langside Hebrew Congregation. 20. Queen’s Drive Baptist Church, 178 Queen’s Drive/Niddrie Road. McKissack and Rowan, 1886. 21. Former Swedenborgian New Jerusalem Church, 174 Queen’s Drive/Niddrie Road. John Bennie Wilson. Dated 1888. B listed. It was converted to form 12 flats across the church and hall in 1998. 22. Queen’s Park Parish Church, 170 Queen’s Drive. James Thomson, c. 1876. Stained glass window by Daniel Cottier. B listed. 23. Queen’s Park Church, Balvicar Street/Balvicar Drive. William Leiper 1875-8, soaring stone spire completed 1883. Originally Camphill United Presbyterian church; built on corner site, and added to N of 1873 hall whose architect is not known. Normandy gothic, with good sculptured detail executed mostly by MacCulloch and Co of London. Pair of tall windows over the door and winged figure by Mossman. Interior decoration by Daniel Cottier. A listed. (Exploring : Robin Ward p248) 24. Gatepiers to Queen’s Park. Possibly by David Hamilton, c. 1800 (ie if originally for Camphill House). Late 19th/early 20th century wrought-iron gates. C listed. 25. Queen’s Park. Originally to be called the South Side Park; Queen’s Park was opened on 11 September 1862 by Bailie Gemmell convenor of the Park Committee. It was named after Mary Queen of Scots not Queen Victoria. The original plans were drawn up by Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-65) with alterations by John Carrick, City Architect. (Exploring Glasgow: Robin Ward p247/8)