The Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls and Tennis Centre is a sports complex located in Glasgow, Scotland. Located on Kelvin Way off Sauchiehall Street and adjacent to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove Park and the Yorkhill and Kelvingrove residential neighbourhoods, it is owned by Glasgow City Council and was a venue for the 2014 Commonwealth Games [1] and has been used for the purpose since at least 1910. [2] In addition to a number of lawn bowls greens, the facility has six artificial grass tennis courts which are available to the public to play for free. [3]
Prior to becoming an extension of the park to serve as the venue for the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in 1888, the land was occupied by Kelvinbank House, a mansion dating from the 1780s, [4] [5] with the property sited almost exactly on the location of the bowling centre pavilion. [6]
See also
References
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 profile". Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ Kelvingrove Bowling Green (Glasgow University Archive Services, Building Photographs, 1910), The Glasgow Story
- ^ How to book a Tennis Court in Glasgow, Glasgow Life
- ^ Kelvinbank House, Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry
- ^ Kelvinbank House, The Glasgow Story
- ^ OS Six-inch 1st edition, 1843-1882, Explore georeferenced maps ( National Library of Scotland)
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