Could you give us half an hour of your time to help with the Brighter Bungo back lanes clear-up?
The next clear-up is on Sunday 19th January between 11 – 1pm – find us outside the old Sammy Dows on Nithsdale Road. It’s a dead easy way to do your bit for the community you live in, plus get to know a few more neighbours. Kids love to get a grabber in their hands, so it’s a perfect family activity. The January clear up especially needs all hands on deck as we cope with the aftermath of disrupted New Year bin collections and the overflow that results from the festivities.
Come join the celebration of the New Year at Strathbungo’s traditional Hogmanay street party.
Parade through the streets around 11.30 to meet at the corner of Moray Place and Queen Square before the countdown, and stay for the music, to meet friends, have a drink and a dance. Bring your own refreshments. A little whisky and shortbread will also be available on the Society stall.
The ever popular street event to mark the passing of the old year and the arrival of the new will again be taking place in Strathbungo. Are you intending to come along? Could you possibly provide a little help? Key skills will be pouring some drinks on our stall, passing them out to the crowd, and handing round the shortbread; all skills we all get to practice at this time of the year. If you are intending to be there anyway, why not help out for ten minutes?
If anyone fancies helping out with a playlist, that would also be appreciated.
Please contact the Society Chair to let us know that you can help.
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A huge thanks to all the Society members who put months of planning in to this year’s event, the volunteers who helped setup, steward, and take down, the imaginative stall holders, the musicians, and everyone who came along to make the event another great success. Here’s a few random snaps of the day, with thanks to Craig Johnston for several of them.
And if you want to get more involved, planning starts again in the den at The Bungo on Tuesday 16th July, 7.30pm. There’s no let up. Come along if you have any great ideas to improve this or any other of our events!
Jazz Zestival
New Victoria Gardens
Karen Cairns artist
Folky Polky
Fresh Beer
Elise V Allan artist
Fresh bakes
Children's Hospices Across Scotland
Jon Molyneux and Jane Carolann open the event
Folky Polky
Strathbungo Society Tea Garden
Folky Polky, Polish folklore art
The view from the Society stand
The Society bottle stall, always popular
Music at the Queen Square bar
Tunes at the Community Zone, courtesy La Roche Rumba
Karen Miller photography
Dylan Lombard, photographer, raising money for Indepen-Dance
The Society Tombola
Nicola Surgeon visits the Peace Pole
Mandy Maria, artist
McMillan's Bar
Selfie time! First minister sports Bungo Bag.
Lucky dip at the Society bottle stall
Project Ability
Exploring
Jazz in the garden
Folky Polky
Fast food, Bungo style
The Gazebo set-up team get their moment of fame. Thanks for the help, guys!
The art of signwriting
A fan finally gets her selfie taken with Paola!
Music in Marywood
There's one way to improve your swing
If you have any good pictures, you can email us, or use the submission form, Write!
There is a programme of events at the Queens Park Arena (the old bandstand) but they don’t always seem to be well advertised locally. Or I am not paying attention.
If you want to see what is on, try their events web page. Or follow them on facebook for updates.
Tomorrow (Friday 3rd May) they are holding a celebration of the great Paul Robeson’s appearance at the bandstand on May Day 1960, with an introduction by Norry Wilson of Lost Glasgow fame, and the play Call Mr Robeson. I believe the weather will be dry (if not that warm) and tickets are still available.
There are also disco sessions on this holiday weekend.
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.
You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings on Zoom – anyone is welcome. Or you can complete the form below:
You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings on Zoom – anyone is welcome. Or you can complete the form below:
You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings on Zoom – anyone is welcome. Or you can complete the form below:
You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings on Zoom – anyone is welcome. Or you can complete the form below:
You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings on Zoom – anyone is welcome. Or you can complete the form below:
You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings on Zoom – anyone is welcome. Or you can complete the form below:
You can contact the chair on chair@strathbungo.co.uk if you want to raise any issues, or wish to participate in the meetings on Zoom – anyone is welcome. Or you can complete the form below:
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