12/11/2023 0 Comments Bonkers bingo glasgow![]() ![]() The oldest Catholic church in Partick is also the third oldest Catholic church in Glasgow. ![]() A walk down Dumbarton Road on a Friday night shows that there is still plenty of life in Partick yet, but gentrification is creeping down the road. The danger is that Partick is becoming a big middle class/student housing scheme, with all signs of its long past and industrial history being erased. Yorkhill Hospital's site I'm guessing didn't have such a clause, so I suspect a tsunami of new flats can be expected to rise over the hill there soon (although the Health Board are apparently thinking of keeping the site going as Western Infirmary out-patient clinics and day surgery wards). ![]() This they have now done, to expand the University campus. In 1878 Glasgow University sold the land to the hospital authority where the Western Infirmary was built, but a clause in that deal stated that if the hospital ever moved out, the university would be able to reacquire the 14 acre site. Even the Western Infirmary and Yorkhill Hospitals are in the process of shutting up shop and moving to new premises. ![]()
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