As someone who has his own pick up stick to clear litter from the area around the bins at the bottom of the QS/RPS back lane I would love to join the Bungo Clean Ups that you organise. However, it always happens 11-1 on Sunday, which is just when I am in church! Could you vary the times a bit, so I can both help clean up Strathbungo and worship? Cleanliness is next to godliness! Julyan Lidstone
The latest newsletter has arrived, just in time for our AGM! If it hasn’t made it through your door already, you can
Note there’s an error in the printed version of the newsletter; the AGM is next Tuesday, 12th November, not 19th as stated in the headline. Apologies.
If you want to write something for the newsletter, or even better if you fancy helping edit it or laying it out, please get in touch.
You can also find the newsletter, and old ones back to the 1990s, at the BygoneBungo Newsletter Archive.
The AGM of the Strathbungo Society will be on Tuesday 12th November. The event is again in Queens Park Church of Scotland over on Queens Drive, and will begin at 7.30pm. Doors will be open from 7.15pm, with tea and coffee available beforehand and wine afterwards. Do come and meet fellow residents of the area.
The principal business of the evening will be the Society’s report and accounts for the year. We will also welcome speakers from the Queen’s Park Neighbourhood Plan.
As noted in our last newsletter, this is a collaborative initiative by the neighbouring Community Councils for Shawlands & Strathbungo and Langside, Camphill & Battlefield that kicked off its work in May 2024, and you can hear of public consultation and survey results and progress to date..
Society Documents here:
- Agenda AGM 2024
- 2023-24-Strathbungo-Society-Trustees-Report-AGM
- 2023-24 Strathbungo Society Accounts and Independent Examiners Report
We are always looking for new blood on the committee. Every community organisation needs to reflect the diversity of the people living in the area, and always needs a variety of different talents to make the machine work. We meet 10 times a year, in the den of The Bungo Bar on Nithsdale Road, and you can contribute as much or as little as you like, according to your interests and skills. Beyond committee work, we also need volunteers to take part in Bungo Cleanups, to help organise local events like Bungo in the Back Lanes, or even introduce new ideas for other events. Have you any time that you can give to your local community? Have you new ideas, but need some help to get them going?
The Society is only as strong as those who contribute, so it needs your support.
Please contact us for further information, before, during or after the event.
I believe I was born in 1949 in a maternity home in Marywood Square. Does anyone have any information as to its location?
The latest newsletter has arrived, just in time for Bungo in the Back Lanes! If it hasn’t made it through your door already, you can
As well as Back Lanes news, there’s an update on parking restrictions, Queens Park Arena, and local news.
Thanks again to Kem Gammie for editing. If you want to write something for the newsletter, or even better if you fancy helping edit it or laying it out, please get in touch.
You can also find the newsletter, and old ones back to the 1990s, at the BygoneBungo Newsletter Archive.
Looking for info on the Back Lanes this Saturday?
See our dedicated Events pages, including updated map.
Cllr Ghani has passed on a communication from council officers on the enforcement of the ban on pavement parking. It clarfies the council’s current position very well.
Essentially they have divided Glasgow’s roads up into ones where they will enforce the ban, becasue there is no issue (e.g. Pollokshields Road, Titwood Road) and those where they will defer enforcement while further work is undertaken (e.g. most of Strathbungo’s Squares and Gardens).
Our interpretation is that pavement parking will remain technically illegal, but there will be no enforcement, and no further nagging warning notes, until further notice, on roads coloured green. I suspect that might be for quite a while given the scale of the task.
Note there are some exceptions. The ban will be enforced on Titwood Road, Nitshdale Street, and at some of the entrances to the Squares, where the road is wider. Check the map; purple streets will have the ban enforced, green will not.
Map showing which streets will have the ban enforced (purple).
SAVE THE DATE:
Bungo In the Back Lanes 2024
Sat 22 June, 1-5pm
RESIDENTS’ STALLS
BEER GARDENS
LIVE MUSIC
HOME BAKING
FOOD STALLS
TEA GARDENS
TOMBOLA
PLANT SALE
MAKERS MARKET
CHILDRENS GARDEN
All events take place in the back lanes between Nithsdale Rd & Vennard Gardens.
See you there!
See also our FAQ pages for further info.
Bungo in the Back Lanes will be on 22nd June this year. Can you help us get ready?
Please do your bit to ensure the lanes are in good nick for the event by coming along for a half hour on Sunday 2nd June between 11 and 1. Litter pickers, bin bags and high viz vests will be available outside the former Zinfandel on Nithsdale Road. Hope to see you there, but if you can’t make it could you have a look at your own stretch and spruce it up for the occasion?
Makers Market
Also, the Makers Market returns to BITBL this year in the lane between Marywood Square and Vennard Gardens, after being a great success last year. If you’re a local craftsperson and would like to sell your products on the day, please email Nicola at soapetc@btinternet.com or DM her on Facebook at @bungosoapetc to apply.
Parking in Strathbungo
This article was first published in 2019, but we are reproducing it here as the debate on pavement parking has resurfaced due to recent changes in legislation. The Society is actively seeking opinions on how to respond to the pavement parking ban that may (or may not) be applied to Strathbungo.
The adverse effect of traffic on the comfort and safety of the residents in this area has the same root cause as in any other urban area, i.e. too many vehicles in too small a space. However, the problem is aggravated in Strathbungo in that the streets were not designed to carry through traffic or fast traffic, or to be used for parking. The older streets, Regent Park Square, Queen Square, Marywood Square and the northern half of Moray Place were built on a scale adequate for access to the houses by horse and carriage. The result is we have an area which is totally unsuitable for the unrestricted use of motor vehicles, whether belonging to residents or to anyone else.
So said the Strathbungo Society in their fact finding report in 1972. It’s a common theme in Strathbungo that the concerns of today are little different from those of yesterday, but it has been brought into focus by this week’s announcement of legislation to ban pavement parking in Scotland. What effect will this have on Strathbungo? Will we need to ask for an exemption, or is this the very thing we have been waiting for?
In 1972 the Society conducted a survey of the numbers of cars and commercial vehicles parked in Strathbungo overnight, There is nothing like hard data to base a discussion on, and so I couldn’t miss the opportunity to repeat it. This is what they, and I, found.
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