IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Crofton Avenue, GLASGOW, G44 5JD
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Crofton Avenue, G44 5JD 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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Notes
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Image Listing (8 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Raith Avenue
A short one-way street off Croftfoot Road. Croftfoot Surgery (GP practice) is on the right.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 30 Jun 2018
0.16 miles
2
View from King's Park
Looking over Glasgow towards the Campsie Fells from high ground in the south of the city.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 29 Jun 2011
0.18 miles
4
Bin day, Croftpark Avenue
Wheelie bins awaiting the council bin lorry.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 5 Jul 2017
0.21 miles
5
Aikenhead Sundial
This monumental sundial is fairly close to the similarly huge Aikenhead House in King's Park, Glasgow. It got transported here in the 1930s shortly after part of the original Aikenhead estate was gifted to the city by a developer. Presumably the developer had realised that such big profits would arise from the building of thousands of houses on the former estate's land that this grand gesture could be afforded.
Whilst undoubtedly impressive, the sundial is also a bit silly. Four very unfeminine-looking bare-breasted creatures support an octagon, which in turn supports four bearded faces who share a silly tall hat.
This is only the start of the silliness though. Each side of the octagon has its own sundial. (Sadly one or two of the gnomons - the metal bits that cast the shadow - are missing, and all the rest have been twisted out of shape by vandals.) At least one, probably two, and perhaps more of these sundials are superfluous however. The sun only rises due East and sets due West at the equinoxes. In the summer the sun rises in the NorthEast, and sets in the NorthWest, both of these positions becoming more Northerly as the summer solstice is approached. Somewhere online, a fairly official looking site says that at 56° North - which is roughly the latitude of Glasgow - the sun rises at 42° and sets at 318° on the summer solstice (North being 0°). I'm nowhere near clever enough to do the maths, but am certain that this means the time could be told even on the longest day without reference to the full eight sundials!
The thinking must have been to do it because they could. Well, in the 1600s at least - as this apparently is something of a 'tribute' sundial to a famous one made back then. Fair enough I suppose.
Image: © Ian Dodds
Taken: 24 Aug 2022
0.23 miles
6
Thornicroft Drive, Croftfoot
Residential street in the south of Glasgow.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 29 Jun 2011
0.24 miles
