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Vaila Street, GLASGOW, G23 5BZ

When this picture was taken, the existing community centre included the building shown here, and the one that is partly visible to its left; however, a new Community Centre and Sports Hall are being planned. The existing buildings are accessed from Fara Street, and they lie between Skirsa Street (from which the picture was taken) and Tresta Road (on these street-names, see Image).

The refurbishment shown taking place here is intended to make the homes more energy-efficient. The streets in this area are named after places in the Shetlands.

The picture was taken near the south-western corner of the cemetery.

This is a view east from near the Image

On Herma Street, Glasgow.

"Erected in memory of the miners who perished in the Cadder Pit Disaster 3rd August 1913" Owen McAloon / Thomas Holland John Worthington / Patrick Darrach Hugh McCann / George McMillan Charles Reilly / James Flynn George Harvey / Patrick Duffin / Patrick Regan See Image for a view of the memorial in context. According to an information panel near the Cemetery's entrance, "the worst pit disaster in the area happened on an early morning shift in 1913 when 22 miners were killed in the Cadder Pit no. 15 .... A collective memorial for the eleven Catholic miners was erected in St Kentigern's RC Cemetery, and individual stones were raised for the others in Lambhill Cemetery". Detailed accounts of the disaster and its aftermath are given at http://scottishmining.co.uk/21.html (at the Scottish Mining website). Pit 15 was located at about Image The pit 17 that is mentioned several times in the reports was located at about Image I have given those locations here because a few sources (although not the website just cited) erroneously place the scene of the disaster in what is now an area of woodland (Image) not far to the south of the cemetery. The pits are shown and numbered on the relevant 25-inch-to-the-mile OS maps (Pit 15 on Lanarkshire Sheet 001.09 & 10, and Pit 17 on Lanarkshire Sheet 001.11, all of these maps being published in 1912).

This is a view north from the path shown in Image

The boundary to the left separates the cemetery from the adjacent Western Necropolis. In this view to the north, the Image can be seen to the left of the path.

This is the memorial of the boxer Benny Lynch, "undefeated Flyweight Champion of the World, the first Scotsman to win a world boxing title". It also commemorates his son.

"To the honoured memory of those sailors and soldiers who gave their lives for their country during the Great War 1914-1918 who lie buried in this cemetery and are not commemorated elsewhere." There are 134 scattered First World War burials in the cemetery, but this screen wall commemorates those whose graves are not marked by headstones.