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Kelvindale
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 Cleveden Drive, Kelvindale, 2008 | |
  Kelvindale Location withinGlasgow | |
| OS grid reference | NS556687 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GLASGOW |
| Postcode district | G12 |
| Dialling code | 0141 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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| 55°53′23″N4°18′38″W / 55.889718°N 4.310464°W /55.889718; -4.310464 | |
Kelvindale (Scottish Gaelic:Dail Chealbhainn) is a district in the West End of the city ofGlasgow,Scotland. Kelvindale shares the G12 postcode with the neighbouring residential districts ofKelvinside,Hillhead,Hyndland,Dowanhill, as well asGartnavel General Hospital,Glasgow Clyde College (Anniesland) and theUniversity of Glasgow, and is also close to theAnniesland andWyndford areas of the city. The area is characterised by traditional interwar housing, formed oftenements andsemi-detached houses.
Construction started in the late 1920s with work being undertaken by theCity Corporation. This was followed up in the early 1930s by the Glasgow-based housebuilding companyMactaggart & Mickel.[1] The houses were intended for rent rather than for sale, they consisted of semi detached villas. A proportion of these houses were set aside for rent by Glasgow Corporation. The Corporation extended the building down Kelvindale Road towards Collins Paper Mill. Subsequently in the 1930s theWestern Heritable Investment Company extended the district considerably by building the last range of pre-war tenements at Dorchester Avenue, Ripon Drive, etc. between 1934 and 1938. These tenements are unique since they are built onconcrete rafts due to the heavy mine workings in the district from theGarscube Estate. They were planned as four-storey, but due toScots law they were reduced to three stories.[citation needed]
The district is dominated by the Templegas holders (erected in 1891, now de-commissioned andCategory B listed in 2018) which were reputed to be the biggest in the United Kingdom.[2][3] During theSecond World War theRoyal Air Force stationed a balloon unit on what is now ex-MoD housing on Dorchester Avenue. The large fields were once used for grazing horses and cattle but are now the site of more tenement building and the Kelvindale Primary School. Gibson Hall, a formerGlasgow Caledonian University Hall of Residence which stood on Dorchester Avenue, was recently demolished to make way for a new build. Flanders House, built for soldiers of theGreat War, was demolished in 2006 and has been replaced by a modern construction.
Many of the street names in the area are named after places inEngland: these includeDorchester,Hertford andLeicester Avenues,Colchester,Chelmsford,Manchester,Kendal,Penrith,Northampton,Ripon,Southampton,Weymouth andWinchester Drives, andBeaconsfield Road. A few are named after Scottish placenames, includingGrandtully Drive andFortingall Avenue.
In the early 2000s, Kelvindale remained a desirable family area near the city's West End. In 2007,Bryant Homes controversially removed a large number of trees from a local lane to provide better access to a new housing development. The actorRobert Carlyle was among those who protested against the felling. In July 2009, a suspected arson attack caused considerable damage to the site. One partially constructed four story housing block burnt to the ground and the only occupied building on the site was evacuated.[4]
Kelvindale railway station was opened on 26 September 2005. It is situated on the line fromGlasgow Queen Street (High Level) toAnniesland, an extension of theMaryhill Line.
Several bus routes including the frequent 6 and 6A services operate along the nearbyA82 road Great Western Road. While the 94 service operates both ways along Kelvindale Road - Cleveden Road along Dorchester Avenue and Gt Western Road via the nearby Wyndford Estate to and from Knightswood/Anniesland Cross. The M4 service operates both ways along Dorchester Avenue and Cleveden Road to Partick Bus Station.
The Kelvin Cycle Way which links into theForth and Clyde Canal cycle path runs through the area.
Kelvindale Primary School is a non-denominational stateprimary school located in Kelvindale. The increasing number of residents in the 1920s lead to the desire for a local primary school, as children had to travel to Hyndland Primary School (located on the present day site ofHyndland Secondary School) in the neighbouring district ofHyndland. After the second world war, an annexe of Hyndland Primary School was built in Kelvindale (within the present day grounds ofCleveden Secondary School. The two concrete huts were thought to have catered for the first three years of primary school education. In 1963, Kelvindale Primary School was built. The original school consisted of one building with 8 classrooms, and opened its doors on 24 August 1964 with a roll of 248 pupils. Over the years, the school roll increased requiring an annexe of two classrooms to be built in 1971. Another addition came in 1977, when a building specifically to house the infants was opened.[5] The football pitch was sold to become flats and subsequently a new AstroTurf pitch was built opening in late 2006.
Kelvindale containsSt. John's Renfield Church (the localChurch of Scotland parish church), GlasgowNuffield Hospital, Cleveden Secondary School and Kelvindale Primary School.
In recent years, at Cleveden Secondary School and Kelvindale Primary School, the ash football pitches have been sold and replaced by new astroturf pitches.
Historic images of the Kelvindale area can be found on theVirtual Mitchell website.
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