Kelvin Way pedestrians

It’s a few years since Kelvin Way was made into a pedestrian priority zone.

I still can’t quite get used to it, and it still provides vehicle access to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (exit is by a different route), and other locations which lead to/from it.

The road also provides access to all the transport needed to facilitate various concerts and events held in Kelvingrove Bandstand – and that seems to be a lot. Not there’s free access for them at such times, as access points, such as that seen blocked below, are staffed, with personnel managing those on foot and in vehicles.

However, chances of finding vehicles there are low, and probably be as seen here, where the council’s gardeners are busy.

Just for fun – Can you see it in Kelvin Way?

Sometimes, you just see something that makes you stop for a moment.

Spotted this in Kelvin Way while just wasting some time standing around.

The obligatory pic was taken.

The scene was preserved.

Don’t scroll down to the second pic too soon if you want to take a moment to play at spotting the reason.

 

 

Kelvin Way Fun

 

 

Did you spot it?

 

 

Kelvin Way Windmill

Lord Kelvin: The man… and his building (signs)

Apologies for the title, but I wasn’t really aware of the true extent of the building when I took the sign pics as I was wandering around the campus.

The signs are located on the new phase of the building, which is pretty plain (although that’s not why I didn’t include it – it’s just an awkward pic), and I hadn’t realised that the much more ornate older building behind was the original, and I would have included that if I had known. Find more details in this summary of the Kelvin Building.

Having passed it so many times, I also think of a house on the approach to Largs as a ‘Kelvin building’, this being the gatehouse to the Netherhall Estate, where Scottish physicist William Thomson (1824-1907) lived, and was awarded the honour of Baron Kelvin of Largs.

I happened to come across his statue on a decent day, and grabbed a fairly good picture.

The day was blessed with few people around to detract from the view, and this was before some geniuses had decided to extend a certain Glasgow tradition to Lord Kelvin’s statue, and start placing a traffic cone atop.

I’m sorry, but while that may be amusing once, and I appreciate the joke, it fast becomes tired when repeated ad infinitum.

Kelvin

Carrying on from the statue, I happened to wander around the paths of the campus, and venture along some that were off the beaten track for someone just using them for access.

I’m not familiar with most of the site I really only haunt The Hunterian and the chapel (for organ recitals), and knew few of the buildings, or their names.

I did start looking at them, and couldn’t fail to notice the Kelvin Building, and an impressive collection of signs attached to it.

Looks as if there’s some damned interesting stuff going on in there.

Kelvin Building Signs