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Stockline Plastics factory explosion
On 11 May 2004, the ICL Plastics factory (commonly referred to as Stockline Plastics factory), in the Woodside district of Maryhill, Glasgow in western Scotland, exploded. Nine people were killed, including two company directors, and 33 injured, 15 of them seriously. The four-storey building was largely destroyed.
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St Columba's Catholic Church, Glasgow
St Columba's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Woodside, Glasgow, Scotland. It was completed in 1941 and designed by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. It is situated on Hopehill Road south west of Garscube Road. From 2005 until 2016 it was served by priests from the Dominican Order. Since 2016 it has been served by the Holy Ghost Fathers. It is a category A listed building.
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Woodside, Glasgow
Woodside is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow and also forms some of the most southern part of the much larger district of Maryhill. It is situated north of the River Clyde, between the River Kelvin and the Forth and Clyde Canal. The construction of the M8 motorway in the late 1960s severed Woodside from its southern neighbours Charing Cross and Garnethill.
Woodside has the first and grandest of Glasgow's Carnegie libraries, all designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by James Robert Rhind. Joseph Connery, the father of Sean Connery, was born in the district in 1902.
The area's Public transport links include Kelvinbridge and St George's Cross Subway stations, and is also home to many small to medium-sized businesses, including Breast Cancer Care and Abbey Business Centres.
The Stockline Plastics factory explosion happened in Woodside on 11 May 2004, which killed nine people, (including two company directors) and 33 people were injured, 15 of them seriously. The four-storey building was largely destroyed.
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St George's Cross subway station
St George's Cross subway station is a Glasgow Subway station in Glasgow, Scotland which serves the areas of Woodside and Woodlands of the city. It is located at St George's Cross, previously an important road junction but realigned due to the construction of the M8 motorway and less heavily used by traffic since then. Today the station serves mainly the eastern extremity of Great Western Road and the northern reaches of the neighbouring Charing Cross district.
The station was opened in 1896 and retains its original island platform configuration. The surface buildings were demolished and rebuilt in 1971 as part of the construction of the Glasgow Inner Ring Road – making this the only station on the system to be substantially rebuilt prior to the 1977–80 modernisation. The original aesthetic of the new station – characterised by concrete aggregate cladding was therefore short-lived – during the modernisation project this was replaced with the new corporate style of the new Subway with dark brown brick and orange tiling, which has survived to the present day.
This station recorded 580,000 boardings in the twelve months ending on 31 March 2005.
St George's Cross is one of the stations mentioned in Cliff Hanley's song "The Glasgow Underground".
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