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Partick
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Partick's western border with the city was the River Kelvin, which falls steeply to the Clyde, and which powered the early granaries along its banks. And where today survives the city's last grain mill. This is owned by Rank Hovis and produces flour for their Duke Street bakery. Timothy Pont's map of Lennox c1600 shows a cluster of mills on the lower river, including Bishop's Mill and a meal mill leased by the city of Glasgow. The incorporation of Glasgow bakers ... owned two mills on the river, one called the Bunhouse Mill. Although other works, such as spinning and slit mills used the water power of the Kelvin, it was grain mills which predominated.
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Partick is a large area in the west end of Glasgow. It is home to some of the finest and best preserved examples of Victorian tenements as well as a number of the city's biggest tourist attractions like the Transport Mueseum and Kelvingrove Mueseum and Art Gallery. Partick is ... the cultural hub of the west end with many of the trendiest bars in the city located around Byres Road. The area escaped much of the comprehensive development of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Only one tower block at Crathie Court and a few post war tenements are its only scars from that era. Glasgow University is located in the area as is the Western Infirmary.
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Partick should have netted just seconds after the restart. Jean Yves Anis released Rowson into the box and he only had the goalkeeper to beat from eight yards but managed to send his header past the post when it looked easier to score.
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In 1885 Partick entered the English FA Cup, going out in the first round to their powerful Glasgow neighbour, Queen's Park. The following season they reached the fifth round where they were narrowly beaten by Old Westminsters.
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The profusion of fat ducks in Partick was due to their feasting on the products and by products of the grain mills on the Kelvin. The old Bunhoose apparently had a lintel dated 1695 over the door, but was demolished in 1849.
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The village of Partick is romantically situated on the banks of the Kelvin, which at this place rushes dinsomely over a rocky bottom, and is in several places dammed up by artificial barriers for the service of the extensive Corporation Mills. The channel ... is here spanned by a time-honoured bridge, which commands a picturesque prospect of the old-fashioned little town, many of the houses of which are evidently of no recent date. It possesses, however, but few architectural features of a remarkable description. Partick altogether has a pleasant half-rural aspect, while the reputed salubrity of its air and its vicinity to the city has rendered it a favourite place of resort on holidays, and on the long summer evenings, with certain classes of our citizens. Numerous handsome villas and cottages also have recently been erected in its environs, principally by thriving business men from Glasgow, which lend it a peculiar air of prosperity and cheerfulness, while the inhabitants generally have an appearance of robust health, which contrasts favourably with that of our urban population.
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