Ever since I moved to Scotland and have been using the trains more I’ve been wondering why there was no station in that area. 😊
#Glasgow #Barrhead #BalgrayStation #ScotRail #NetworkRail #Scotland
Ever since I moved to Scotland and have been using the trains more I’ve been wondering why there was no station in that area. 😊
#Glasgow #Barrhead #BalgrayStation #ScotRail #NetworkRail #Scotland
Barrhead Cooperative Society emblem on a cast iron drinking fountain in Cowan Park in Barrhead. Dated 1897, it was manufactured by the Sun Foundry in Glasgow.
#glasgow #ironwork #metalwork #barrhead #cooperativesociety #sunfoundry #architecture #architecturephotography
Saint John's the Evangelist Church in Barrhead near Glasgow. It was designed by Thomas S. Cordiner and was built in 1961. I love the hexagonal tiles on the front, and I wonder if this is a reference to religious orders keeping bees for their wax, which was traditionally used to make church candles.
#glasgow #barrhead #church #scottishchurches #architecture #scottisharchitecture #hexagon #bees #scotland #architecturalphotography
Tower Rais in Barrhead just outside Glasgow. Built in a castellated Tudor stye in the 1870s, it was first occupied by the owners of the Clark Thread Company, and then later by John Dove, who owned the Great Eastern Hotel in Glasgow.
Old football leagues:
Arthurlie F.C. played in the Scottish Football Federation (and in Scottish Junior Football West Premier League, Scottish Football Alliance, Scottish Football League).
Grounds: Dunterlie Park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthurlie_F.C%2E
Melissa Lotholz of Barrhead, Alta., won her 20th career bobsleigh medal, but her first as a pilot, by claiming bronze in the IBSF World Cup 2-woman bobsleigh race in Lillehammer, Norway. Meanwhile, it's a first World Cup medal for her brakewoman, Skylar Sieben of Cochrane, Alta.