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Glencroft Road, GLASGOW, G44 5RD

Menock Road runs more or less in a straight line from Cathcart to Croftfoot, with a little hill in the middle. This image looks east along Menock Road from just over the brow of the hill.

Aikenhead House, a Category A listed building, sits in the middle of King's Park, which used to form part of its estate. The mansion house, along with the grounds that now make up today's public park, were donated to the city in the 1930s by a developer shortly after he/they bought the full estate (which covered an area about four times the size of King's Park) and got to work building 3000 new houses. Glasgow City Council, or whatever name they went by back then, opened the house to the public a few years later as a costume museum. Then the war came along and it was used as some kind of intelligence HQ. After that it was used to store - though not display from what I can gather - the artworks and objects that make up the Burrell Collection. Considering these items were donated to Glasgow in 1944, and the Burrell Collection - a purpose-built museum located in Pollock Country Park, not too far awy - did not open its doors until 1983, they might well have been kept in this house for a very long time. Once the artworks and artefacts were rehoused the building was boarded up. Due to the building's listed status, demolition - though considered - was never properly on the cards, and in the mid 1980s it was sold on to a private developer and converted into 14 flats. The estate agents often describe it as a "neoclassical masterpiece" designed by "the father of Glasgow architecture" David Hamilton when selling the flats on. It was built in the first decade of the 1800s and was modified a little shortly afterwards. A ground floor flat comprising a bedroom, bathroom and living room/kitchen is currently under offer for £156,000.

Magpies scavenging near a stand of trees north of the King's Park area of Rutherglen, Glasgow.

Taken looking east from Kingsbridge Drive bridge.

Aikenhead House, situated within King's Park public park, was built on the site of a much earlier 17th century mansion. The main house was built in 1806 and the wings were added in 1823. In 1986, Aikenhead House was converted to contain 14 flats.

This Category A listed building dating from 1806 is in the centre of King's Park. In the early 1980s there were plans to turn the building into a museum to house Glasgow Museums' fine collection of costumes, but the discovery of extensive dry rot in the building meant it would be too expensive. Glasgow City Council instead sold the building to developers, who converted the house into flats in 1986.

This Category A listed building, dating from 1806 is in the centre of King's Park. In the early 1980s there were plans to turn the building into a museum to house Glasgow Museums' fine collection of costumes, but the discovery of extensive dry rot in the building meant it would be too expensive. Glasgow City Council instead sold the building to developers, who converted the house into flats in 1986.

Kings Park has a north entrance on Menock Road. It is shown here looking south across Menock Road from Knightsbridge Avenue.

The entrance on Kingsbridge Drive.

Looking east to two of the arches of the Kingsbridge Drive bridge.