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3. Easterhouse. Waste ground [then]; future possibility. Skyline quite
good for 360°. Penston Road/Londay Road good skyline except
N-W, and summer sunrise behind pylons.
4. Tollcross Park. Good skyline from mound overlooking football
area. Houses close due east.
5. Queen's Park. Like Kelvingrove: most events can be seen but not
from same point.
6. Castlemilk. Good summer, N. skyline; winter rise behind trees;
winter set behind flats. Leave site for kids.
7 . C a t h k i n B r a e s P a r k . S u m m e r s u n r i s e t h r o u g h t r e e s , w i n t e r c l e a r ; s u m -
mer and winter sunset obscured. Better horizon higher on hill, but
nearer power station. Better spots further west on Cathkin Road.
8. Glenmuir Drive. Area hopeless.
9. Priesthill Road. No chance.
10. Bellahouston Park. By Exhibition monument all solar, lunar align-
ments clear, but between trees on hill, by existing monument. Siri-
us rising no good.
11. Kelvingrove Park. Views of Midsummer sunrise and set, also SW
and SE, but not from same spot.
12. Ruchill Park. View of sorts to NW, SE; good to SW, trees to NE.
Consider Hillend Road?
13. Knowetap Street. Midsummer sunrise, set, Moon furthest north;
view to east for different star?
14. Maryhill Road. Near Glasgow University Observatory. Good pos-
sibilities, between trees in some cases.
15. Dawsholm Park. Arcs to south and west, no north and east.
16. Garscadden Wood. High but lots of trees. From path could have
distant settings, using flats etc. as foresights.
17. Lochgoin Avenue. No Midsummer sunrise. Good arc for rest in
south. Ground not flat.
18. Inchfad Drive. No Midsummer sunrise - probably all rest. Sirius
doubtful. East obscured.
Glenmuir Drive and Priesthill Road were the only places where
no detailed assessment was attempted; in fact I told the driver
not to stop. The visual impact of that area was worse than what I
remember of the Gorbals before the great demolitions of the 60s,
certainly far worse than, say, Easterhouse or Drumchapel, housing