A visit to Glasgow Necropolis

In August last year, Little She Bear and I visited Glasgow Cathedral and we decided that day that one day we would come back and walk up to the necropolis. Yesterday we did that. This pic is taken from the necropolis looking towards the cathedral and Glasgow Royal Infirmary. More of that later but first here are some of the murals we saw on buildings of Strathclyde University as we walked up from the station after alighting form the train and after coffee in George Square in the sunshine.

These two were my favourites, I think, though I liked them all. What a brilliant way to deal with an old brick wall!

Views from high up in the necropolis were great.

The mausoleums were imposing.

And the sky was blue all day!

We enjoyed the plants, including this very sycamore-like acer whose leaves were an unusual colour, the ferns and mare's-tail growing out of cracks between stones...

...the beautiful blossom of
hawthorn and rowan...

...the light through large trees and the hundreds of tiny and not so tiny ash trees growing everywhere. Let's hope that Scotland's ash trees will show some resistance to ash dieback and revive woods throughout the UK in due course.

young ash between monuments

Some of the gated mausoleums were amazing. I took a couple of photos for @GarethsGates.

Then, towards the end of our wander, I spotted this. This Arthur Booth was not my great uncle from Featherstone, who played cricket for Yorkshire during the time when only Yorkshiremen could qualify for that, but it was nice to see the name and be reminded of some family history.

She Bear and I think we will go again some time with notebooks and pencils so that we can write down names we have never come across before. There were some very unusual ones.

But before then we will go on a trip to Dalreoch and do some exploring there. There is a maritime museum there and plenty more history. There is also, I've just discovered, a tea plantation!

Oh! Wait! It seems the tea plantation called Dalreoch is at Dunfermline. Oh well, there's another outing.