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Lyoncross Road, GLASGOW, G53 5UT

The viewpoint for this picture was the top of Crookston Castle, and the view is towards the Pollok and Corkerhill areas of Glasgow. The main road visible at the bottom of the image is Lyoncross Road; between this road and the unseen Potterhill Road (higher up the slope) are two rows of houses. Between Potterhill Road and Barnbeth Road (higher up again) are another two rows of houses. There are no houses on the far side of Barnbeth Road, but Crookston Wood begins there; this wood can be seen in the photo.

Looking to Lyoncross Road from beside the footbridge over the Levern Water.

The viewpoint for this picture was the top of Crookston Castle, and the view is towards South Cardonald. The main road that is prominent at the centre of the image is Lyoncross Road. The line of distant towerblocks to the right of centre is located at Moss Heights Avenue. The area of woodland filling the middle distance in the right-hand side of the image is Crookston Wood.

This tower is the only part of the castle which still survives to its original height.

This room in the north-eastern tower is reached by means of a spiral staircase (Image) from the doorway that is visible to the right of the fireplace in a view of Image There are another two storeys above this one; those rooms are superficially similar to this one, and they are reached by climbing sets of metal rungs, as the picture shows. For the next floor up, see Image From the topmost room (which is two storeys above the one in the present picture), more rungs lead to the rooftop. (On my last visit, I was allowed to ascend the castle after I had made it clear that I had no objection to climbing ladders in cramped spaces in near darkness; more light gets into the building now.)

The picture was taken within what remains of the Great Hall, now roofless; its fireplace is a prominent feature: Image The doorway to the right of the fireplace leads to a spiral staircase (Image), which in turn leads to the Lord's Bedchamber (Image); from there, modern metal rungs give access to another two storeys above that one (Image and Image – the barred windows of those rooms can be seen in the present picture), and finally to the rooftop; its fence can be seen at the upper left corner of the picture. Those rooms and the rooftop (Image) are parts of the north-eastern tower, the only one of the towers to survive to its full height; compare Image For a view from the fenced-off area at the top-left corner of the present picture, see Image The place from which the present picture was taken can be seen in that view. Click on the end-note title for other pictures of the castle.

This room, in the north-eastern tower of Crookston Castle, is immediately above the one shown in Image, and the view direction is the same: the steps in that picture lead to the opening at the lower left corner of the present picture. The north-eastern tower is the only one that survives to its full height, and there is one more storey above this one. The castle would originally have been more symmetrical (see Image), but other towers have been destroyed. The barred window on the right is the lower of the two that can be seen, one above the other, high up on the left-hand side in a picture of Image When there were floors in the central part of the castle, this "window" would have been a doorway. For the next room up, see Image

This room, in the north-eastern tower of Crookston Castle, is immediately above the one shown in Image This final set of rungs leads to the rooftop: Image Out of shot to the right is a window (originally a doorway): Image

For the room, see Image This window is, with respect to that picture, out of shot to the right. It is also the higher of the two barred openings that can be seen high on the left in a picture of Image I have called it a window (it now overlooks a sheer drop above the Great Hall), but it would originally have been a doorway leading onto a floor (now long gone) in the centre of the castle.

From the Great Hall (Image), the spiral staircase gives access to the Lord's Bedchamber (Image). Beside the same staircase are the remains of a medieval latrine, and a blocked door to the (now largely demolished) south-eastern tower (see Image, where the remains of that tower are on the left). Further up, the staircase is blocked, but it would have given access to the uppermost rooms in the north-eastern tower (i.e., the two storeys of rooms directly above the Lord's Bedchamber). Those rooms are now reached, instead, by sets of modern metal rungs.