Visit Glasgow, Scotland: Things to do in Glasgow - The Second City of the Empire
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01. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
A museum and art gallery. The most popular free-to-enter visitor attraction in Scotland. The most visited museum in the United Kingdom outside London. Has one of the finest collections of arms and armour in the world and a vast natural history collection.
02. Glasgow Botanic Gardens
An arboretum and public park. Features several glasshouses, the most notable of which is the Kibble Palace. The gardens were created in 1817. Were originally used for concerts and other events. Kibble Palace is a 19th-century wrought iron framed glasshouse, covering 2137 m2.
03. Glasgow Cathedral
A gathering of the Church of Scotland. Also called the High Kirk of Glasgow or St Kentigern's or St Mungo's Cathedral. The title cathedral is honorific and historic, dating from the period before the Scottish Reformation.
04. Glasgow Science Centre
A purpose-built science centre composed of three principal buildings which are the Science Mall, an IMAX cinema and the Glasgow Tower. One of Britain's most popular places to visit and Europe's Best Science Centre.
05. Glasgow Green
The oldest park in the city. Established in the 15th century. The park served a number of purposes in its first few centuries; as a grazing area, an area to wash and bleach linen, an area to dry fishing nets and for activities like swimming.
06. M&D's
An amusement park located in Motherwell. Contains five rollercoasters and two water rides among others as well as an arcade, theatre, ten-pin bowling and indoor reptile house, Amazonia - the only indoor rainforest in the whole of Scotland.
07. Rouken Glen
A park in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire. The glen has many of the typical features of an Edwardian urban park, such as a boating pond. Includes a large waterfall surrounded by steep woodland, a walled garden in the grounds of the former manor, Birkenshaw house.
08. Glasgow Tower
A free-standing tower located on the south bank of the River Clyde. Holds a Guinness World Record for being the tallest tower in the world in which the whole structure is capable of rotating 360 degrees. Closed for more than 80% of its life. Re-opened in July 2014.
09. Burrell Collection
An art collection. Situated in Pollok Country Park. Contains an important collection of medieval art including stained glass and tapestries, oak furniture, medieval weapons and armour, Islamic art, artefacts from ancient Egypt and China, Impressionist works by Degas and Cézanne.
10. George Square
The principal civic square in the city. Is today home to the headquarters of Glasgow City Council, and boasts an important collection of statues and monuments. It is generally regarded as the de facto centre of the city.
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Old Photographs Rouken Glen Park Giffnock East Renfrewshire Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Rouken Glen Park a public park in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire. Rouken Glen Park lies some six miles to the south of Glasgow city centre with Newton Mearns to the south and Thornliebank to the north. The lands of Rouken Glen Park originally belonged to the Scottish Crown, and then to the Earl of Eglinton, presented to Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton on the marriage of his son in the year 1530 by King James V. It takes its name from the old Rock End Meal Mill in the glen, which dates back to the early 16th century. The remains of the meal mill can be seen at the foot of the waterfall, deep within the foliage and rhododendron bushes high on the slope away from the pathway. Amongst the park's owners were Walter Crum of Thornliebank and Archibald Cameron Corbett, M.P. for Tradeston, Glasgow, later Lord Rowallan, who gifted the estate and mansion house to the citizens of Glasgow. It was officially opened on 25 May 1906 and leased in June 1984 to the then Eastwood District Council.
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In 40 acres of beautiful private grounds and gardens, this elegant Georgian country house is now an award-winning 4-star hotel offering free Wi-Fi and a 2 AA Rosette-rated restaurant.
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Murland Mausoleum Clough Co Down No Ordinary Tomb
This is the Murland Family Mausoleum sittind at the back of Clough Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church, Castlewellan Road, Clough, County Down just aross the road from Frenchies Restaurant.
Here we have a finely carved crypt built in the neoclassical/baroque style with pedimented gable end topped by urns. It has a stone pitched roof with steps leading down below ground to a metal door. Above a rounded recessed opening with metal grill with an archway is decorated in rusticated style. The gable walls support a low pediment adorned with acanthus
( flower ) and scrollwork detail. Giant order of consoles flanked by flambeau ( torches ) support a cornice. The roofline boasts acroteria, ( -An acroterion or acroterium or akroteria is an architectural ornament placed on a flat pedestal called the acroter or plinth, and mounted at the apex or corner of the pediment of a building in the classical style ), antefixae (-An antefix, from Latin antefigere, to fasten before, is a vertical block which terminates the covering tiles of a tiled roof ) and draped urn finials.There are marble plaques inserted along the tomb sides and a granite plinth.
The stone is buff-pink sandstone with the primary stone being Giffnock sandstone imported from Glasgow.The secondary stone type is Newry granodiorite. The inserts are marble.
The draped urns on the roof of the building were -common in Victorian cemeteries. They symbolise a separation between the living and the dead and a protective shroud for the soul. They are a classically inspired symbol of death.
This then is no ordinary tomb. The Murlands were at pains to emphasis that they were no ordinary family. Their mausoleum dominates the graveyard and is very out of keeping with the more humble graveheadstones from the period. No expense has been spared here and no detail neglected in the construction. The Murland family were the linen industry in this South Down region and that this mausoleum was built in 1860.
A lot of the very interesting Murland family story can be found detailed in the 2008 book titled 'Departed Warriors -the Story of a Family in War' by Jerry Murland.
'Departed Warrirs Takes the reader from the shores of Britain with the first volunteer army to leave for South Africa to fight in the Second Boer War, and to the battlefronts of the Great War of 1914-18. This work offers an account of two generations of a family who fought for their country and the impact it had upon their lives.'
Jerry Murland served in the Parachute Regiment. He is the author of Departed Warriors and Aristocrats Go To War (Pen and Sword Military). He is a prolific writer of military books dealing with WW1 and WW2. He lives near Coventry.
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