Everything about Byres Road totally explained
Byres Road is a
street located in
Glasgow,
Scotland and is the central artery of the city's
West End.
Effectively the Glaswegian equivalent of
Chelsea's famous
King's Road in
London, Byres Rd is now a mixed commercial, shopping and upmarket residential area consisting largely of traditional sandstone
tenements with retail premises on the ground floor and three floors of residential flats above. Its proximity to
Glasgow University has meant that the surrounding
West End of Glasgow is very
bohemian, with a large student, academic and artistic population that includes
Alasdair Gray, whose mural and ceiling paintings adorn the
Ubiquitous Chip and the Oran Mor bars.
Stretching from
Great Western Road at the
Botanic Gardens in the north to Dumbarton Road at Partick Cross in the south, the road originally ran through an area called the Byres of
Partick (also known as Bishop's Byres). The oldest pub in the area is the 17th century
Curler's, originally sited beside a pond used for
curling and, legend has it, given a seven-day licence by King Charles II. The legend, 'Victoria Cross', on premises at the junction of Byres Road and Dowanside Road recalls a later attempt to rename the street Victoria Road in honour of
Queen Victoria. The plans were cancelled following objections by the residents.
Nearby lanes and by-ways, notably
Ashton Lane, have benefited from the business of Byres Rd and now contain a variety of small businesses from tapas bars to second-hand record stores. In recent years, however, the number of estate agents, fast-food outlets and bars has grown at the expense of traditional amenities such as bookshops and butcher's shops.
Byres Road is served by
Hillhead station of the
Glasgow Subway.
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