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Methven Avenue, GLASGOW, G61 2AZ

Residential street in Bearsden.

Residential area just off Boclair Road in Bearsden.

In quite a marshy area.

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.

The two monuments in the foreground are in memory of members of the Speed family (left) and Henderson family (right).

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.

Looking to the 72m spot height to the north of Kessington.

This is the more easterly of the two preserved sections of the stone base of the Antonine Wall that are on view in New Kilpatrick Cemetery. For the westerly one, see Image, and other images that are linked from there. As for this eastern section, it is almost 30 metres long; as the picture shows, there is a distinct kerb on each side. Compare Image, a view from a different angle, highlighting the southern curbstones. For a view from the other end, see Image Like the other section, this easterly one is crossed obliquely by an original culvert, whose remains are visible: Image The wall that can be seen not far ahead in the present picture is the eastern boundary of the cemetery; there is a golf course on the other side. The cross to the right of the Wall's base is the Cuthbert Memorial. Beyond that is a table stone commemorating Sir Archibald Spencer Lindsey Campbell, the Fifth Baronet of Succoth, and his wife. For another contributor's earlier picture of the Wall's stone base, from this end, see Image