Sunday, August 10, 2014

Sunday 10th August - Where I was born and Glasgow city

Glasgow is full of surprises!

This morning we set off to 23 Park Circus which is the address on my birth certificate for where I was born.
23 Park Circus

23 Park Circus doorway
In 1944 it was registered as "The Park Circus Maternity Home" by Mrs. McCallum!
Street label

Park Circus garden all, "locked and barred"
The freaky thing about it was that it was only about 2 or 3 minutes walk from the Hostel up in Kelvinside - how did that happen!!





From there we headed off down town to Sauchiehall
Sauchiehall Street - pedestrian precinct
street and then into Buchanan Street
Buchannan Street - downhill
to find the Information Centre and just to say that we had been there! On the way we found the statue of Scotland's first Prime Minister, Donald Dewar 1937 to 2000, and further down The Tardis - I couldn't see Dr Who though.

Scotland's first Prime Minister
Tardis
From the Information Centre we walked down to Argyll Street to find a Barclay's Bank and a bit further on into The Tron. They make a big effort with flowers in Glasgow
The Tron Gate
Big flower containers
Down in The Tron we found T.J. Hughes, a big department store, to buy some replacement luggage.

Then we walked back to "The Heiland Man's Umbrella and down to the Clyde Walkway. It would have been lovely, but for the rain which trickled down.
The Heilandman's Umbrella

Clyde Walkway

There are some great bridges and buildings along here.
The Blink twists as it crosses

A carpark building

A traffic bridge

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