Take a Walk on the Southside

Pollokshields Heritage has just announced the launch of its new Heritage Trails around this unique garden suburb. Trail One looks at ‘The Villas of Pollokshields’ which lie to the West of the suburb and Trail Two looks at ‘The Tenements of Pollokshields which lie to the East. The walks highlight key buildings, features,

details and notable former residents. The Trail leaflets give a good guide to people wandering through the leafy avenues and handsome tenement lined streets of Pollokshields which is always a great place for a nosy round.

The third leaflet is a guide to the story of the area dubbed Glasgow’s Garden Suburb. It celebrates the Maxwell family - the landowners who had the vision for a grand garden suburb to the south of the city centre and then saw it through three generations of the family, the master planners the family employed to draw up their vision, the developers who invested in the suburb and the architects whose designs they commissioned. It also celebrates those who then built the buildings and the craftsmen and artisans who forged the details that still delight us today.

Pollokshields Heritage will host the official launch of the leaflets on Sunday 3rd March 2013 at Pollokshields Burgh Hall with a guided walk through the Avenues leaving from the Burgh Halls at 2.00pm (weather permitting) and followed by afternoon tea from 3 to 4.30pm at the Burgh Hall. As places are limited anyone

wishing to participate should contact secretary@pollokshieldsheritage.org.

More information about Pollokshields Heritage here.

(All photographs ©Roger Millar)

Glad Cafe's new website

The Glad Cafe have just set up a new website for what looks like it will be a really fun new venue in the Southside. Have a watch of the film above for an idea of what they are all about . Looks like it will be a pretty relaxing place to hang out in. Not quite sure exactly where the venue is going to be, anyone spot any clues in the photos on the site?

"It is intended that the Glad Café will be a café/venue based in the Pollokshields/ Govanhill area of Glasgow – the heart of Scotland’s most ethnically diverse community. We’ll provide freshly prepared seasonal food as well as a warm hub that will encourage people from different backgrounds to meet and mix informally. In addition, we’ll also have a well equipped, 200 capacity venue that will be open in the evening to provide a home for creative new and world music and other artforms that exist outside of the mainstream."

Glad Cafe are also currently looking for looking for new writers and poets to submit short stories or poems for a zine they plan on publishing in the coming months. Send your submissions to thegladcafe@gmail.com.

New Victoria Gardens Open day

Glasgow’s historic allotment scheme (established 1871) invites the public inside its walled gardens just one day a year and this is it! Your chance to tour round 64 individual plots tucked away in a cul de sac in East Pollokshields.

Prize-winning fruit, veg and flowers on exhibit in the hall (most sold at bargain prices at the end of the day) and a separate tent selling houseplants, perennials, cut flowers and produce – with friendly advice from the people who grew them.

Also a legendary tea room with delicious homebaking, barbecue with veggie options, a range of stalls including crafts, bric-a-brac, honey & jam, tombola - plus lots of fun activities for kids.

Glenapp Street at Albert Drive

Saturday, 21 August (2-5pm)

Pollokshields, Glasgow G41 2NQ

Admission £1 (accompanied under-12s free).

Ready Steady Grow

Remember the Ready Steady Grow festival is on in Pollokshields today from 1 - 5pm. Look like it will be good fun. For a full programme of whats on where download the event brochure here.