Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Glasgow HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities <p>Doors Open Day September 2018:</p><p>This Historic Guided Tour covers both the Dennistoun Conservation Area and into the wider Dennistoun.</p><p>Sat 15^th, 11am; 90 minutes</p><p>Meeting Point: Former Duke St Post Office at corner of Annfield Place &amp; Westercraigs</p><p>Booking: Fully booked</p><p>�</p> OpeningTime1 Sat 15th, 11am; 90 minutes OpeningDate1 15/9/2018 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 14168 Refreshments No Street The street address Meeting Point: Former Duke St Post Office at corner of Annfield Place & Westercraigs AddressLine2 1 Annfield Place Postcode G31 2XT Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WALK - Dennistoun Conservation Area - Historic Walk Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived glasgow Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2299 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.85871,-4.2237; Description An account of the resource <div class="page"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>Alexander Dennistoun had a vision to build a residential suburb. Architect, James Salmon, produced a masterplan with villas, terraces and gardens which form the Dennistoun Conservation Area - the main area of our tour.</p><p>Alexander Dennistoun employed Architect, James Salmon, to produce a masterplan with villas, terraces and gardens following on from where John Reid, a local merchant, first built Annfield Place. Reid died before he could take his plans further. Alexander Dennistoun then gradually accumulated all the local estates and started to work on his vision of a healthy residential suburb barely a mile from Glasgow High Street.</p><p><br /> Dennistoun, eldest son of a successful merchant family, was educated at Glasgow Grammar School and the College of Glasgow. In 1820 he was sent to New Orleans, where his father and uncle had a branch of their business in the cotton trade. On his return to Britain, he lived in Cheshire and took charge of the Liverpool branch. He later spent several years in France before returning to Glasgow.<br /> He was a director of the Union Bank of Scotland and served as a Member of Parliament for Dumbarton in 1834, having stood as a Liberal. After the death of his wife in 1847, he alternated between his Glasgow home in Golfhill and Lagarie, on the Gareloch.</p><p><br /> The Dennistoun Conservation Society has a great deal of further information and photographs of the estates including Dennistoun�s own Golfhill estate, Craigpark, Annfield, Whitehill, Meadowpark etc and the current map of the Conservation Area. The mansion houses of those estates are shown in the buildings section of History.</p><p>http://www.dennistounconservationsociety.org.uk</p><p><br />�</p><p>�</p></div></div></div></div>