This home was just off Buchanan Street in 1956, offering spacious accommodation and garden in the heart of the city/
Young Stephanie Brown, from St Peter’s Primary, celebrated with her friends after streets in Glasgow’s Partick were given a new look in 1990.
They followed the red brick road behind clowns, jugglers and face painters, jigged on buff pavements and let off 500 helium balloons to mark the opening of the new Streetscape scheme.
Eight streets were completely resurfaced, with roads
realigned and pavements widened to complement new traffic management arrangements.
Partick Housing Association looked to the Netherlands and Scandanavia where streetscape schemes had dramativally reduced the number of road accidents in residential areas.
The £800,000 project, which also aimed to brighten up the area, was given the thumbs up by hundreds of children and dozens of dignatories from Glasgow District and
Strathclyde Region, Scottish Homes and the Scottish Development Agency.
A housing association spokesman said: “The area is looking really good.”
And these youngsters certainly seemed to agree.
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