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Boclair Road, GLASGOW, G61 2AF

Cemetery on Boclair Road, behind Bearsden. New Kilpatrick was the original name for the Bearsden area.

Looking north along Rannoch Drive.

The toilet block shown here is now disused; the building was not an original feature of the cemetery, but was present by the start of the Second World War. For a view to the left (north), from beside the building, see Image

The view is from near the entrance. For the entrance itself, see Image; the gates and gate-piers are described in detail in the listing text (for which, see the end-note). As the picture shows, the road branches here; the left-hand branch curves around towards the following feature, part of which can be seen indistinctly in the distance: Image

Douglas Park Golf Club is in the foreground.

The white house in the right background was originally the cemetery lodge, but it is now (as a sign in front of the house reminds people) a private residence, unconnected with the cemetery. The tall white structure just ahead, to the left, is the Galloway Memorial.

IN SACRED MEMORY OF ELIZABETH DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF E.H. BOSTOCK WHO DIED 12TH DECR 1927 IN HER 69TH YEAR "LOVING ALL; BY ALL BELOVED" ALSO THE ABOVE EDWARD HENRY BOSTOCK J.P. WHO DIED 17TH SEPT 1940 IN HIS 82ND YEAR THEIR ELDEST SON EDWARD HENRY AUGUSTUS BOSTOCK WHO DIED 5TH AUGUST 1943 IN HIS 62ND YEAR DEARLY BELOVED HUSBAND OF ELIZABETH LITTLE SOMMERVILLE ALSO THE ABOVE ELIZABETH LITTLE SOMMERVILLE WHO DIED 14TH DECEMBER 1964 IN HER 74TH YEAR Edward Henry Bostock was born into a family of circus and menagerie owners. They toured the country putting on performances of Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie in towns and cities on their route. In 1897 Bostock finally settled in Glasgow, where he set up the Scottish Zoo and Variety Circus, and Glasgow Hippodrome. In due course he was elected a member of Glasgow Council and became a Justice of the Peace. His 1928 autobiography 'Menageries, Circuses and Theatres' is worth a read if you can get hold of a copy. There is also a lot of information at http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Glasgow/ScottishZooAndHippodrome.htm. Many of the animals at the zoo were presented to the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow when they died. The best known of these is Sir Roger, the Asian elephant http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=326700;type=102.