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In 1924, it was purchased by Forth District Council to be installed in the newly created Alexander Hamilton Memorial Park. In the same year, the current bandstand was constructed in Kelvingrove Park to replace it.
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This is the Alexander Hamilton Memorial Park Bandstand in Stonehouse in Lanarkshire. Why am I posting a photo of it here? That's because it started life as one of two bandstands erected in Kelvingrove Park for the 1911 Glasgow International Exhibition. As far as I can work out, it was sited near the banks of the River Kelvin pretty close to the location of the current bandstand.
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Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre. Built in 1924 by the Glasgow Public Parks Department, it's one of the earliest examples of a post-WWI public bandstands to break from the pre-war tradition of octagonal ones.
Promenading around the beautiful Saughton Gardens this afternoon, heard music drifting over the manicured hedges, turned out to be this wee group enjoying themselves in the Victorian bandstand.
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The handsome bandstand in Saughton Park walled gardens was birthed in the Lion Foundry, not far from where I grew up, and where some older relatives had worked.
Delighted to see it restored & looking beautiful to all who promenade there, a tribute to the men who sweated out the work of a now long-gone foundry & were rightly proud of their hard work.
