IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Florida Avenue, GLASGOW, G42 8XG

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Florida Avenue, G42 8XG by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

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Image Map


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Image Listing (79 Images Found)

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Houses on Cathcart Road
Local authority housing on Cathcart Road in Glasgow.
Image: © Peter Mackenzie Taken: 3 May 2019
0.04 miles
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Fungus patch
On the banking of the train line between Mount Florida & Govanhill stations.
Image: © Alan Murray Walsh Taken: 20 Sep 2008
0.08 miles
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Cathcart Road
At Prospecthill Road.
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 27 Apr 2013
0.11 miles
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Mural commemorating first Hampden Park
The mural went up in 2019, and is painted on the back of Hampden Bowling Club's clubhouse. Two years earlier someone at the club, which had long maintained it was sited on the land once occupied by the world's first international football stadium, had found a railway company map somewhere that showed the plans for the railway line seen in the picture to bisect the pitch. Due to the fact that the ground was built after the first OS map and demolished to make way for the new railway before the second OS map got surveyed there had until then been no conclusive proof. Considering that for years nobody was entirely sure exactly where the ground had been, other facts and figures about the place should probably be treated with a bit of caution. A standout one is that the pitch dimensions inside this first national stadium were apparently a huge 200 yards by 100 yards. Scotland hosted six matches during the ground's 11 year existence and won them all, scoring at least five goals in each game - England and Wales lost three apiece. Queen's Park F.C. held the lease and played their home games here, as was the case at the two subsequent Hampden Parks until as recently as 2021. The quite brilliant ludicrousness of a team of increasingly dwindling stature, with average attendances in the low to mid hundreds, playing their matches in a 50,000 capacity national stadium had to come to an end sometime I suppose, and the SFA now own the latest Hampden Park. Queen's Park are currently ground-sharing whilst their former training pitch, Lesser Hampden, is brought up to standard. It is odd that the 5-1 win is the one the mural celebrates, considering that they also beat England 7-2 on this same ground. I have not checked, but it could be that one or both of the two iconic players - Charles Campbell and Andrew Watson - that flank the scoreline did not feature in the bigger victory. Scotland dominated England in the early years of football. Whilst the head-to-head record is currently 48-41 in England's favour, Scotland were 29-19 ahead at the outbreak of the Second World War. A match report of an early game here alludes to the fact that in the old rules every time a goal was scored the teams had to change ends. This rule was dropped in 1875. The stadium existed from 1873 to 1884.
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 28 Mar 2023
0.11 miles
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Old terracing
Former ground of Third Lanark Athletic Club 1872 to 1967.
Image: © Alan Murray Walsh Taken: 20 Sep 2008
0.14 miles
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Cathcart Road
Viewed from McLennan Street.
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 27 Apr 2013
0.14 miles
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Shops, Cathcart Road
Hardy's Hardware on a wedge shaped corner. Dated 1906.
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 29 Jun 2011
0.14 miles
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Hardy's Hardware
Cathcart Road. Giant footballs? The team down the road usually need giant goals.
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 29 Jun 2011
0.14 miles
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Shops, Cathcart Road
Tranquillity never sounded so alarming.
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 29 Jun 2011
0.14 miles
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Mount Florida clinic
The doorway and dome of the Category B Listed building on Prospecthill Road at Mount Florida railway station. Designed in Edwardian Baroque style by Crawford & Veitch in 1907 as Cathcart Parish Council Offices.
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 27 Apr 2013
0.14 miles
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