Exploring Lost Springburn
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                        Start the tour from the Broomfield Road Gate at Springburn Park
8 min 
                        Looking at the surviving Doulton Column
4 min 
                        One of the original houses predating the park
4 min 
                        Home of the Reid Family
2 min 
                        Built as a Poor Law Hospital in 1904
4 min 
                        The boating pond was used for model yachts and small rowing boats
2 min 
                        As the 20th century progressed, new sports facilities were introduced.
2 min 
                        James Reid, locomotive industrialist and benefactor to Springburn
3 min 
                        The architectural highlight of the park, it was constructed in 1900.
8 min 
                        The last surviving example of the original park railings
1 min 
                        The original sandstone quarry, now a decorative rock garden and lily pond
2 min 
                        The changes to Balgrayhill Road from the 1960s were part of Glasgow's housing boom.
2 min 
                        Charles Rennie Mackintosh's first independent commission
2 min 
                        One of the original country houses that pre-dates the urbanisation of Springburn
2 min 
                        The old junction of Balgrayhill and Springburn Road, now entirely obliterated.
4 min 
                        The much changed heart of Springburn, the Balgray Recreation Ground and old Baths
3 min 
                        Exploring more of the lost buildings of central Springburn
6 min 
                        The old heart of Springburn
4 min 
                        One of the original Carnegie Libraries
4 min 
                        Fine administration building designed by James Miller for NB Loco
6 min 
                        The ill-fated Springburn Public Halls 1902-2012
7 min 
                        One of Glasgow's most iconic cemeteries, opened in 1840
4 min 
                        The last of Springburn's iconic Railway Works
5 minFrom winter gardens to locomotive works, this tour will explore the architectural and industrial legacy of a lost Springburn, that saw over 85% of its buildings demolished during the city's final 'Comprehensive Development' project in the 1970s and 1980s. From Springburn Park, the highest point in Glasgow and last Victorian park to be laid out in Glasgow, the tour will explore the role of the steam locomotive industry in rapidly building a world-leading industrial metropolis from a rural backwater at the start of the 19th century. Only the fragments of a once dense district of tenements, villas, pubs, schools, churches, railway workshops, co-operative society shops and public halls survive intact from the end of the 1960s, but those that do survive remain some of the finest municipal and industrial buildings in the city.
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