A Visit to Lambhill Stables Community Garden
Part Three of our walk between Gilshochill and Possilpark & Parkhouse stations. We stopped at Lambhill Stables Community Garden for a picnic before heading past an old railway station building on Balmore Road.
Lambhill Stables on the Forth & Clyde Canal was built around 1815 when horses were used to pull boats and barges along the canal. A vital piece of canal industry built to a standard design there are identical buildings at several spots along the canal! Since 2007 Lambhill Stables has been run as a community hub offering everything from a youth club, photography club, knitting group, scouts, women’s group, boat trips and a very popular bike hub for affordable repairs & servicing.
Rudy’s favourite activities at Lambhill Stables are of course the cafe for enjoying canal-side lunches at their outside picnic benches and the wonderful community garden. The garden has small allotment style planters in one corner but is mostly beautifully landscaped area that, while quite small, is always nice to visit whether for a seat to relax in peace or a wander round the curious artworks. We sat just out the back of the garden for our picnic view across Possil Marsh to the hills.
At Lambhill Stables you can also find a memorial monument for the Cadder Pit Disaster of 1913, more details at the bottom of this page.
Cadder Pit Monument
There is a memorial monument at Lambhill Stables for the Cadder Pit Disaster of 1913. Cadder Pit No. 15 was located not far from here to the north of Possil Loch. This was Glasgow’s worst mining accident and it was reported 50,000 people lined the funeral routes – the procession for 11 of the victims went past the stables on it’s way to the cemetery. You can read newspaper reports from the time at the Scottish Mining website.
Together Again This Monument and Commemoration Garden is dedicated to the memory of the 22 miners who lost their lives in the Cadder Pit Disaster of 3rd August 1913. It was designed by local artist Eddie McKee and built with help from stonemason Bill Irvine, steel fabricator Steve Keniry, and the team from Stable Solutions (Contracting) Ltd. Of those 22 men, 11 were Catholic and 11 were Protestant. They were buried separately because of their faiths, and this Monument symbolises the brave workmates brought Together Again.