Kelvingrove Park Bandstand:
Built in the 1920s by the City's parks department the bandstand is sited on the west bank of the River Kelvin in Kelvingrove Park. A brick building with a large oval amphitheatre seating area sweeping upwards in a westerly direction to the entrance gates on Kelvinway. The bandstand fell into disrepair in the 1990s and the stage area was fenced off in 2001 following vandalism to the building. Since then despite a long-running campaign to restore it to its former glory the bandstand continues to lay derelict and fall further into a state of disrepair. Category B listed.

street address: Kelvingrove Park, Kelvin Way, Glasgow, G12
Latitude / Longitude: 55.869443,-4.285664 (sourced using Google Maps)
site visit date: 08 March 2011

the gated entrance on Kelvinway with two small booths to either side of the gate. These have the same blank window surround detail as the 3 bays at the rear of the bandstand (08/03/2011)


view east through the gates directly at the front of the bandstand (08/03/2011)


view south east across the amphitheatre audience area, with 3 mature trees between the bandstand and the River Kelvin (08/03/2011)


west frontage, with the stage area fenced off since vandalism to the closed building in 2001, and the short south side elevation (08/03/2011)


seating benches to the front of the amphitheatre (08/03/2011)


bottles, debris and leaves litter the roof (08/03/2011)


squirrels are nested in the roofspace, here the squirrel is at the entrance hole and is about to disappear through the roof into the space below (08/03/2011)


from the front of the bandstand there is a clear view into the area under the stage previously used as a storage area for fold away seating (08/03/2011)


view of the west elevation along the path which runs between the bandstand and the River Kelvin (08/03/2011)


part of the rear of the building (08/03/2011)


rear (west) elevation from the edge of the River Kelvin (08/03/2011)


window at the rear (08/03/2011)


window detail as repeated on the brick entrance booths to the west (08/03/2011)


collapsed portion of roofing to the rear (08/03/2011)




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