The Clyde Arc

 The Clyde Arc, better known as the 'squinty bridge', spans the River Clyde, and was constructed in 2006. The bridge connects Finnieston Street on the north bank of the river to Govan Road on the southern bank.

 

 

Our Lady and St Margaret's Presbytery:

 Our Lady and St Margaret's Presbytery Stanley Street Kinning Park.

Designed by Pugin and Pugin 1882.

The building is in a very poor condition, the windows haven't been boarded up ,the floors and walls have collapsed. It is a "C"listed building ,the wreckers ball cant be to far away. 

Bishop's Mill

Bishop's Mill on the banks of the river Kelvin in Partick it was built in 1839 on the site of an earlier mill which burned down. It remained in operation until the 1960s and was converted into an apartment block containing twenty flats in 1987.
 

St Simons

St Simon's in Patrick was founded by Derry priest Fr Daniel Gallagher to serve the huge influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-19th century.

Father Gallagher held the first Roman Catholic services in the West End of Glasgow in 1855 after his studies in Rome and was ordained in 1837.

St Simon's was built in Gothic style in 1858 by Charles O’Neill and known originally as St Peter’s. A century later it was renovated in 1956 by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, the great modernist architects who designed many Catholic churches of the era.

David Livingstone, the greatest African explorer, reportedly told the story that he only escaped from the dye works at Blantyre because Fr Gallagher taught him Latin, which let him qualify to study medicine at Glasgow University.

Fr Gallagher opened St Simon's Partick Bridge St in 1858 calling it St Peter’s. It is the third oldest Catholic church in Glasgow.

The Partick Bridge Street building served as an extension (known as the Bridge St Chapel) until the Second World War when soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces who had escaped the Nazis and who were based in Yorkhill Barracks needed a church. They would march to church on a Sunday.

Since then the building has also been known as the Polish Church.

St Simon's Parish Church was destroyed in a deliberate blaze in 2021 with the cost to rebuild the historic site estimated to be at around "several million" pounds.

The B-listed building on Partick Bridge Street was left "extensively damaged" with only four walls remaining after Ryan Haggerty, who was living in homeless accommodation close to the church, set it on fire.

Information courtesy of Glasgow Live

 

Ross Hall Hospital

 Ross Hall was a small mansion house on the south side of the city .

It was built by James Cowan JP in 1877,in 1890 he commissioned James Pulham and Son who were famous landscape gardeners  to remodel the garden, when finished it was considered to be one of the finest in Scotland.

In 1908 the estate was sold to Sir Fredrick Lobnitz,a wealthy shipyard owner, by 1948 the estate was sold to Glasgow Corporation eventually the building was converted to a hospital with many modern additions.

Ross Hall Park is open to the public but little remains of the original garden, in spite of this its still a pleasant walk.