Maryhill
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- This article is about the area of Glasgow. Maryhill is also the name of a suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand.
Maryhill is a residential locality within the northwest sector of the City of Glasgow. Previously an administratively independent Police Burgh from 1856, Maryhill was incorporated into Glasgow in 1912.
Sporting institutions in the area are Partick Thistle Football Club, Maryhill Football Club and the Maryhill Harriers Running Club. One region of the district is famously called the Botany.
Maryhill was home to the Maryhill Barracks, which famously held Hitler's second-in-command Rudolf Hess during World War Two after his proposed "Peace" flight to the UK. The Barracks have now been converted into the Wyndford housing estate.
A list of famous things worth knowing about Maryhill includes:
- The first railway bridge in Scotland laid over a river was built here.
- The first aqueduct was built here since Roman times, the Kelvin Aqueduct.
- The entire district is so large (Maryhill road /4 miles long/population 80,000) and diverse that it is home to some of the wealthiest homes in the country (premier league footballers and politicians) in the north (Maryhill park) and central area North Kelvinside: However it is one of the poorest postal regions in western Europe : with places like Gairbraid estate or "The Valley".
- Although the hit CBBC chilldren's programme Balamory is set in Tobermory, Mull, interior scenes are filmed in studios in Maryhill.
- The hit series Still Game and Chewin' the Fat are also filmed in the area.
- The 1960's T.v soap 'The high life' was set in a tower block in the Wyndford.
- Maryhill was the first temperence society in the U.K after lawlessness filled the streets in the 19th century.
- Taggart, a world famous scottish detective television programme, is set and filmed in Maryhill. Remarkably tourists still come to the Maryhill police station to take photographs.
- A cafe in maryhill was used as a set in the film Trainspotting(http://russelldavies.typepad.com/eggbaconchipsandbeans/2005/04/cafe_djaconelli.html)