"Those are the kinds of things you can expect to see going forward," Byres added.
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The chairman of Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) Wayne Byres was talking at an industry conference in Sydney.
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But Byres also said APRA, which is government-funded but independent, needs more money to carry out its work.
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"In the prevailing environment, a serviceability floor of more than 7% is higher than necessary," said Chairman Wayne Byres.
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Byres had also argued that APRA, which is government-funded but independent, needed more money to carry out its work.
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While lending standards have improved, following stringent oversight and measures by APRA in recent months, Byres said more prudence was warranted.
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Byres was first appointed to head the regulator in 2014 and had worked there for 13 years between 1998 and 2011.
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APRA chairman Wayne Byres says the inquiry aims to provide the community with confidence that any shortcomings identified are promptly addressed.
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"We will be absolutely doing more to publish names of individual entities where we were taking material action against them," Byres said.
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APRA Chairman Wayne Byres had expressed reservations with some of the more contentious recommendations from the capability review, including a veto on directors.
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Wayne Byres, chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), said last week the "persistent push" to lift prudential standards had contributed to consolidation.
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"The broader environment of high and rising leverage, encouraged by historically low interest rates, requires ongoing prudence," Byres said in a speech in Sydney.
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Byres expressed concerns over the overall rate of non-performing housing loans drifting higher and towards levels seen after the 2008 global financial crisis.
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"Despite significant losses, these (test) results nevertheless provide a degree of reassurance: banks remained above regulatory minimum levels in very severe stress scenarios," Byres said.
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"APRA is well aware of the heightened expectations of the organisation," APRA Chairman Wayne Byres said in a statement accompanying the four-year corporate plan.
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"We think the quality of lending the banking system is doing today is certainly higher and better than it was a few years ago," Byres said.
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"We have also observed only a slight moderation in the proportion of borrowers being granted loans that represent more than six times their income," Byres added.
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Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Chairman Wayne Byres told a parliamentary committee the allegations from the country's financial crime agency, AUSTRAC, against Westpac were "very serious".
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After the positive stress test results, APRA will put pressure on banks to fine tune their systems to respond to and recover from severe shocks effectively, Byres said.
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"Australia's major banks are well-capitalised and financially sound, but improvements in the management of non-financial risks are needed," APRA Chair Wayne Byres said in a statement.
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The tune is created when car byres drive over the strips - which are usually deployed at the side of major roads to warn drivers they are straying off course.
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Byres said the regulator would "remain alert to slippage," a reference to smaller lenders and non-bank lenders, which according to analysts have grown mortgages at about 12 percent annually.
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Byres offered a brighter assessment of the sector, however, suggesting it was generally more compliant with regulations since the global financial crisis and more proactive in weeding out poor practices.
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APRA needed "to think harder about the impact on business models and business lines of a very low interest rate environment persisting for a lengthy period of time," Byres said.
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"Importantly, this would be considered within the capital targets previously announced – it does not reflect any intention to further raise minimum capital requirements," said APRA Chair Wayne Byres in a statement.
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Wayne Byres, chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA), which supervise banks, insurers and pension funds, told reporters on a conference call it would get tougher with the entities it oversees.
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"Australia's major banks are well-capitalised and financially sound, but improvements in the management of non-financial risks are needed," Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Chair Wayne Byres said in a statement.
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The companies' self-assessments showed that "they have fallen short in a number of areas, and APRA is therefore raising their regulatory capital requirements until weaknesses have been fully remediated," Byres said.
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SYDNEY, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Australia's banking watchdog will need maintain a close focus on lending for housing in 2018, Wayne Byres, chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) said on Tuesday.
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The reappointment, announced nine months ahead of the expiry of Byres' current term, and the funding was "important for stability during this time of reform", Frydenberg told the Australian Financial Review newspaper.
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But Byres said APRA will not take on a supervisory role, telling those who felt uncomfortable at the thought of APRA supervising non-banking institutions "let me assure you the feeling is mutual".
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"APRA's objective in building up this capital strength has been to ensure it is available to be drawn upon if needed in times such as this," APRA Chairman Wayne Byres said in a statement.
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Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Chairman Wayne Byres told a parliamentary committee on Thursday the 10 percent annual limit it set on investor credit last year was "probably reaching the end of its useful life".
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"It is easy to run up debt, but far harder to pay it back down when circumstances change," Byres added, while acknowledging the regulator has been "more interventionist than we would normally wish to be".
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The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) will be given an extra A$58.7 million ($42.2 million) over four years and Wayne Byres will remain its chairman until 2024, treasurer Josh Frydenberg said in a statement.
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Addressing economists in Sydney on the mortgage market and the good health of banks balance sheets, Byres also said 13 of the country's largest banks had passed "severe but plausible" stress tests applied by the regulator.
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Since the odour of excrement is composed largely of organic compounds, and titanium dioxide is cheap, Dr Koziel wondered whether it might be employed to de-pong byres, sties, stables, sheds and other animal dwelling places.
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Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) Chairman Wayne Byres told reporters on a conference call it will need to work with the government to decide how to progress on recommendations from the review published late on Tuesday.
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"Capital levels that are unquestionably strong will undoubtedly equip the Australian banking sector to better handle adversity in the future and reduce the need for public sector support," APRA Chairman Wayne Byres said in a statement.
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Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) Chairman Wayne Byres told reporters on a conference call the regulator will need to work with the government to decide how to progress on recommendations from the review published late on Tuesday.
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"With many risk factors remaining in place, such as high household debt, and subdued income growth, it is important that (banks) actively consider their portfolio mix and risk appetite in setting their own serviceability floors," Byres added.
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APRA chairman Wayne Byres said in a statement that the caps "have now served their purpose of moderating higher risk lending and supporting a gradual strengthening of lending standards across the industry over a number of years".
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Medcraft and Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority Chairman Wayne Byres, who also testified on Friday, said forcing banks to increase transparency in relation to advertising mortgage products would improve competition, as would cutting penalties for borrowers who changed lender.
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"While we must be careful not to duplicate or cut across matters for which AUSTRAC is the appropriate regulator, and which are before the courts, we are actively considering what further action by APRA is required," said Byres.
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"Any tightening from here on is expected to be at the margin as banks seek to get a better handle on borrower expenses, and better visibility of borrower debt commitments," said Wayne Byres, Chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA).
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SYDNEY, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Australia's banking regulator will ask banks to keep aside more capital against their housing portfolio but does not expect overall ratios to rise beyond the existing benchmark of 10.5 percent, Chairman Wayne Byres said on Friday.
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Byres, APRA chairman since 2014, said the regulator may have focused too much on consistency, which "may have played out in terms of slower responses", but he said sentiments expressed by some staff in the report were not widely held.
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"The overarching goal of the prudential inquiry is to identify any core organizational and cultural drivers at the heart of these issues," APRA Chairman Wayne Byres said, adding that CBA will pay for the costs of the six-month probe.
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"However, beyond financial measures, it is also critical to the long-run health of the financial system that the Australian community has a high degree of confidence that banks and other financial institutions are well governed and prudently managed," says chairman Wayne Byres.
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"With interest rates at record lows, and likely to remain at historically low levels for some time, the gap between the 7 per cent floor and actual rates paid has become quite wide in some cases, possibly unnecessarily so," Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Chair Wayne Byres said in a statement.
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Byres Road is a street in Hillhead, Glasgow, Scotland. It is the central artery of the city's West End.
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Services 1, 5 and 5A provided pollution-free transport on Great Western Road, Byres Road, Hyndland Road and Clarence Drive.
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Ashton Lane is a cobbled backstreet in the West End of Glasgow. It is connected to Byres Road by a short linking lane beside Hillhead subway station and is noted for its bars, restaurants and a licensed cinema. Off the main thoroughfare of Byres Road, Ashton Lane is a focus for bars, cafes and restaurants.
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The Curlers Rest The Curlers Rest, formerly the Curlers Tavern, is the oldest drinking establishment on Byres Road, Glasgow, Scotland. A tavern is said to have been situated at this site since the 17th century, when this part of the city was still countryside. The rural connection is today only remembered in the name Byres Road, from the lands known as the Byres of Partick. The present pub is housed in an 18th-century two-story cottage-type building and derives its name from the large pond, which could be found nearby.
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Byer's tenement and bank (left) facing onto the Tolbooth Prison and St Giles Coates House, Edinburgh The grave of John Byres of Coates, Greyfriars Kirkyard Symbolic carvings on the tomb of John Byres of Coates, Greyfriars Kirkyard Sir John Byres of Coates (1569-1629) was a 16th/17th century Scottish banker and merchant who served as Treasurer and Old Provost for Edinburgh Town Council. Old Provost is the equivaleny of Deputy Provost. Byers Close on the Royal Mile is named after him.The Closes and Wynds of Edinburgh: The Old Edinburgh Club.
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He also suggested the possibility of reopening the shuttered stores. In 2019, the Byres Road location reopened as an Asian supermarket.
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The magnificent monument was created by William Wallace. His Royal Mile tenements were acquired by William Dick of Braid after Byres' death.
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James Byres of Tonley FRSE FSA(Scot) FSA (1733 — 1817) was a Scottish architect, antiquary and dealer in Old Master paintings and antiquities.
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Byres Road is a commercially important district to the city of Glasgow, featuring many of the city's most fashionable and popular independent boutiques.
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Patrick Lindsay, 4th Lord Lindsay of the Byres (died 1526) was a reputed advisor of James IV of Scotland, and counsellor to Margaret Tudor.
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David Lindsay, 2nd Lord Lindsay of the Byres (died 1490) was a Scottish lord of parliament and supporter of King James III of Scotland.
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He first married Margaret Barclay of Towie. They had one child, a daughter, Rachel Byres. Two other daughters died in infancy. Rachel married Thomas Sydserff.
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The Hopetoun Monument is a monument in the Garleton Hills, near Camptoun, East Lothian, Scotland. It is tall and is situated on Byres Hill near Haddington.
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The northern end of Byres Road is served by Hillhead station on the Glasgow Subway, while the southern end is closer to Kelvinhall on Dumbarton Road.
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The building stands atop an artificially levelled terrace.La Farge and Byres 1931, pp. 218, 219. The terrain drops away sharply on the northeast, southeast and southwest sides.
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Her 1984 doctoral thesis at Cambridge University was entitled "Non capitalist land rent: theories and the case of North India" under the supervision of Dr. T Byres.
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This is largely due to the shopping facilities of Byres Road and proximity to the university, which allows students to travel between campus and the city centre.
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Arms of Lindsay of Barnweill and Byres David de Lindsay, Lord of Barnweill and Byres (died 1279), was a Scottish knight and crusader. A minor baronial lord, he was the son of David de Lindsay and held lands in East Lothian and South Ayrshire. He became Justiciar of Lothian under Alexander II of Scotland in 1241. This position had been held by his father earlier in the century.
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Louise Olivian Byres was born to Olive and Ian Byres in a small desert hospital at Magwa, in the Burgan district just south of Kuwait City. Her father worked for Kuwait Oil Company and her mother ran a kindergarten. She had an elder brother, Laurence. She attended the Anglo-American School in Kuwait, and later The Hertfordshire and Essex High School and the Ashford School for Girls in Kent.
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Falconer married Anne, only daughter of John Lindsay, 9th Lord Lindsay of Byres, by whom he had one son; and one daughter Agnes, who married George Ogilvy, 2nd Lord Banff.
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Byres Road is a mixed commercial, shopping and upmarket residential area consisting largely of traditional sandstone tenements with retail premises on the ground floor and three floors of residential flats above. Its proximity to the University of Glasgow has meant that the surrounding West End of Glasgow is very bohemian, with a large student, academic and artistic population that includes Alasdair Gray, whose mural and ceiling paintings adorn the Ubiquitous Chip, the Oxfam Bookshop, and the Oran Mor bars. Stretching from Great Western Road at the Botanic Gardens in the north to Dumbarton Road at Partick Cross in the south, the road originally ran through a relatively rural area called the Byres of Partick (also known as Bishop's Byres). The oldest pub in the area is the 17th century Curler's, originally sited beside a pond used for curling and, legend has it, given a seven-day licence by King Charles II. During the period when Hillhead and Partick were independent burghs, Byres Road was known by its original name of Victoria Street.
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The building was designed by architects Gardner & Glen and had a distinctive terracotta façade. The original entrance faced Byres Road and the upper level housed a Café and American Soda Fountain and, by 1929, a waiting room. The original cinema seated around 1,350 people, but in the 1970s it underwent considerable reconstruction. The entrance was moved from Byres Rd to Ashton Lane, and the old entrance became Bonham's Wine Bar (the railing in the original foyer is retained in the upstairs bar).
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Inside the enclosure there are reconstructions of the Palace (presumably based on that at Miculcice), Houses, and sunken floored buildings, used as workshops. There are stalls and byres for the animal on the site.
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Mound E is to the southeast of Building 10. It occupied an intermediary terrace between Levels 1 and 2, on the southeast side of Level 1.La Farge and Byres 1931, pp. 218, 219-220.
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Their father, William Walker, bought the Coates estate from the Byres family around 1800 and is remembered in the street names William Street and Walker Street.The Closes and Wynds of the Old Town: Old Edinburgh Club.
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John Lindsay, 5th Lord Lindsay of the Byres (died 1563) was a Scottish judge. John Lindsay was the son of John Lindsay of Pitcruvy, the Master of Lindsay, and grandson of Patrick Lindsay, 4th Lord Lindsay. He became Lord Lindsay of the Byres in 1526, and also assumed the disputed office of Sheriff of Fife. According to Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie he was compelled to give over some of his lands to the Earl of Angus, who was at that time very powerful because he had custody of the young James V of Scotland.
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The northeastern side is badly ruined, and borders on Plaza III.La Farge and Byres 1931, p. 220. Mound B is the remains of a small structure overlooking Level 3. It is at the extreme southeast of Level 2.
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In the early 20th century, the walls stood almost high and were over thick; it is possible that it represented the remains of an early colonial building, perhaps a church or town hall.La Farge and Byres 1931, p. 222.
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APRA currently supervises institutions holding A$5.4 trillion in assets for Australian depositors, policyholders and superannuation fund members. The current chairman of APRA is Wayne Byres and the deputy chairman is Helen Rowell. Geoff Summerhayes is the third APRA member.
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Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, (1521–1589), Scottish courtier and Confederate lord. Patrick was the son of John Lindsay, 5th Lord Lindsay, who died in December 1563, and Helen Stewart, daughter of John, 2nd Earl of Atholl.
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John Brown. To the right of the guide, with a spaniel on his knee, is the future 2nd Baron Braybrooke. The others of the party are: John Staples, James Byres, Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet, and Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton.
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Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. v (Edinburgh, 1882), pp. 349, 362-3. As the chronicles mention, after this disturbance Lord Lindsay of the Byres' property was forfeit, and Bargany was punished by a marriage that was to "the wreck of his house".
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The charter confirmed an earlier exchange of lands between Sir William Keith and Margaret Fraser (his maternal grandparents) and William Lindsay, Lord of Byres exchanging lands for that of Dunottar.The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, ed.
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Louise Burfitt-Dons, (née Byres; born 22 October 1953) is a British novelist, humanitarian, and former Conservative candidate. Burfitt-Dons is best known for her anti-bullying work as the founder of the charity Act Against Bullying and co-founder of Kindness Day UK.
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Bernstein, Henry and Brass, Tom (Eds)(1996) Agrarian Questions: Essays in Appreciation of T.J.Byres (Library of Peasant Studies), Routledge (A collection of nine essays was prepared to mark the 60th birthday of Terry Byres)Meliczek, Hans(1999), Book Reviews. Development and Change, 30: 381–406.
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Margaret died in 1616 and in 1617 he secondly married Agnes Smith sister of John Smith of Grothill (a future Provost of the city). They had six sons and one daughter including his heir: Sir John Byres of Coates and Warriston, 2nd Baronet (1619-1648).
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V. karroo is an excellent source of firewood and charcoal. The wood is also used for fencing posts for cattle byres or kraals. The heartwood has a density of about 800 kg/m³. A tough rope can be made from the inside bark of the tree.
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Mound G is situated at the northern extreme of the archaeological site.La Farge and Byres 1931, p. 218. It was heavily overgrown when examined in the early 20th century, and supported two wooden crosses. Building 10 stands approximately southeast of Mound G, separated from it by a flat expanse.
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The move was a gamble for the owner, Ronnie Clydesdale, since the Lane was a backwater to the thriving Byres Rd but in 1977 the Glasgow Subway closed for a major refurbishment. This forced several small businesses to relocate from Byres Rd and the then-famous Grosvenor Cafe followed The Chip into Ashton Lane. Ashton Lane, looking from Great George Street. Other bars and restaurants were opened: the Cul-de-Sac creperie in the former Barr and Stroud factory and Bar Brel in the old coachhouse that had been used latterly as a landscape gardener's yard but was, in 1910, the chauffeur's house and garage for Dr Marion Gilchrist's 'prim dark green Wolseley landaulette'.
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By the time Hillhead was annexed by Glasgow on 1 November 1891,Peoples History of Glasgow, 1899 there were four different Victoria Streets in the expanded Glasgow area.Glasgow Post Office Directory, 1892 All these streets were subsequently renamed with Victoria Street, Hillhead, becoming Byres Road. The burgh of Hillhead was created on 14 May 1869Glasgow Post Office Directory, 1890 and the Burgh Chambers were established in Victoria Street in 1873,Glasgow Post Office Directory, 1873 on the site of the present day Hillhead Library. Nearby lanes and byways have benefited from the business of Byres Road and now contain a variety of small businesses from tapas bars to second-hand record stores.
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The Journal of Agrarian Change is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2001 covering agrarian political economy. The journal publishes historical and contemporary studies of the social relations and dynamics of production, power relations in agrarian formations and ownership structures and their processes of change. The journal was founded by Henry Bernstein and Terry Byres, former editors of the Journal of Peasant Studies. In the introductory issue of the Journal of Agrarian Change Bernstein and Byres expressed a desire that the new journal would have more coverage of historical and comparative debates, feminist scholarship, analysis of migration and rural labor markets, social differentiation and class formation from a wider set of regions and agrarian formations.
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Partick Cross Mansions. Tenements at Partick Cross. Partick Cross is a major road junction in Partick, in the west end of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.Glasgow’s Crosses, Glasgow History, 28 May 2016 The junction is the meeting point of Dumbarton Road, Byres Road, Partick Bridge Street and Coopers Well Street.
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The saltpetre derived from deposits in byres, stables and doocots would be stored in the Powder House. Plans for rebuilding it were made in 1781, at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and accomplished by 1801; its use was discontinued in 1880.Strawhorn, John (1985). The History of Irvine. Pub.
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Investigators in the first half of the 20th century identified close similarities between Wajxaklajun and nearby sites in Chiapas, such as Tenam Puente and Chinkultic, as well as similarities with Zaculeu, the Mam capital, near modern Huehuetenango city. La Farge and Byres described the site in terms of three levels.
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Wightman wrote that in June 1865 against his wishes or knowledge he was made a director of that company. In 1866 the company became insolvent, Wightman was arrested and imprisoned and forced to pay that part of the company's debt (judgment and costs amounting to $14,866.50) owed to Eby, Byres & Co.
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The village name is quite late; it was first recorded in 1345 as Bires. It is probably the exact equivalent of the modern word 'byres'. The village name thus means '(the green by the) cowsheds'. Byers Green remained a farming area throughout the medieval period and into the 16th and 17th century.
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Joseph Bradshaw spent his last years on the property which entered a period of decline and was deserted by his backers. He hired another manager, named Byres, who replaced the old homestead which had become riddled with white ants. The property was acquired by Patrick Quilty, the son of Tom Quilty, in 1937. Quilty Snr.
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Hillhead subway station is a station on the Glasgow Subway, serving the Hillhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. The entrance is located on Byres Road. This station is the nearest to Glasgow Botanic Gardens and the University of Glasgow. The station is one of the busiest on the system with 1.86 million boardings per year.
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Catherine Blair was born in Byres Farm, Bathgate to Susan Jemima Hogg and James Shields. One of six children, Catherine attended Bathgate Academy The Shields family moved to Dolphingstone Farm, near Tranent. Catherine met and married Thomas Blair, a farmer, in 1894. The couple moved to Hoprig Mains Farm in East Lothian and had four children.
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In some places, women were not allowed to enter the byres, found at the hearts of homesteads. The realm of women was granaries - found beyond the walls of the homestead. Also found penned outside the walls here were small stock such as goats. In other parts of the region, homestead domestic compartment households were run by women.
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Byram is a village in the Selby District in North Yorkshire, England. It lies east of Castleford, across the River Aire in West Yorkshire. Byram is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Byram cum Sutton. The toponym is from the Old English bȳrum, the dative plural of bȳre, so means "at the byres or cowsheds".
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James Small in the Dirnanean Summer House An 1880 description of the Dirnanean estate described it as follows: :The byres and stables are kept remarkably tidy being paragons of cleanliness in their way: while the dairy etc., are a perfect treat. The various kinds of stock grace their habitation. The accommodation of the farm servants is really comfortable.
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The monument was erected in 1824 in memory of John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun (1765–1823). The foundation stone was laid on May 3, 1824. There is an inscription on the monument which states: The monument is often referred to as the Garleton Monument or the "Galla Monument" by locals, after Garleton Farm on Byres Hill.
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In September 2020 four pillar boxes were painted black, with gold tops to mark Black History Month in October. They are located in London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast. The London postbox, in Acre Lane, Brixton, features the painting "Queuing at the RA" by Yinka Shonibare. The Glasgow postbox, in Byres Road, features footballer and Army officer Walter Tull.
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Both the cheese and the Burlina breed are included in the Ark of Taste of the Slow Food Foundation. The traditional management system is transhumant – the cattle range freely on high alpine pasture during the summer, and are brought down to pass the winter in byres where they are fed mostly on hay, with a minimum of concentrated feed.
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Pringle was a keen sportsman, playing racquets and polo and riding to hounds. In 1898 he married Sophie Moir-Byres (1872-1964), the eldest daughter of George Moir-Byres, of Tonley.Robert Pringle - The V. C. and D. S. O.: A Complete Record of All Those Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Men of His Majesty's Naval, Military and Air Forces who Have Been Awarded These Decorations from the Time of Their Institution, with Descriptions of the Deeds and Services which Won the Distinctions and with Many Biographical and Other Details, Compiled from Official Publications and Despatches, Letters from Commanding Officers and Other Contemporary Accounts, and from Information from Private Sources, Volume II, Standard Art Book Company Limited (1924) - The Distinguished Service Order, pg. 287 They are buried in Green Lane Cemetery in Farnham in Surrey.
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John Lindsay (1596-1678), Earl of Crawford and Earl of Lindsay, was a Scottish noble. Previously the 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, he was created Earl of Lindsay in 1633. He also received the earldom of Crawford following the forfeiture of his cousin, Ludovic Lindsay, 16th Earl of Crawford. He became Treasurer of Scotland in 1644, and in 1645 President of Parliament.
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Percy did the design, carpentry and tensioning. Ella was in charge of the fabric. They moved house to Kersland Street, Glasgow (the landlady at Byres Road objected to the birds and the models), and began constructing the aircraft in five sections. They used the best materials they could get with their limited funds: pine, sailcloth, steel plates, piano wire and bamboo.
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Attached to the houses were wooden sheds, byres and small gardens. The village's water supply was sourced from three wells. The rebuilding of the village failed to halt Pitmiddle's demise. A once-thriving community of weavers, a blacksmith, two joiners, a tailor, a butcher and a public house was now seeing young people leaving to work in the factories in nearby Dundee and Perth.
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On 15 September 1602 James Beaton and his son David Beaton agreed to resign the keeping of Falkland Palace and their lands of Darno in Fife to the crown. In exchange the Beatons were given the lands of Nether Byres and Urquharts, and the pasturage on the Lomond Hills.Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1599-1604, vol. 6 (Edinburgh, 1884), pp. 495-6.
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A special type were byre-dwellings, which included living quarters, byres and stables, such as the Frisian farmhouse or Gulf house and the Black Forest house. Not all, however, evolved from the medieval barn. Other types descended from the prehistoric longhouse or other building traditions. One of the latter was the Low German (hall) house, in which the harvest was stored in the attic.
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The New Haa as originally built, had courtyards, a writing room, outbuildings, stables, byres, a farmhouse, a grinding mill (run by a water wheel of 16 ft diameter), a dovecote and a "high-rise", three- seater toilet outside. The local history group has plans to develop these buildings into a museum and a heritage complex. Water supply to the complex was from a reservoir.
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Dr Gilchrist (1864-1952) was, in 1894, the first woman to graduate in medicine in Scotland. Cresswell Lane, Glasgow. The Grosvenor Picture Theatre was built on site of Henderson's Cab and Funeral Office in Byres Road and Ashton Lane. The cinema opened on 3 May 1921 with 'Helen of the Four Gates' and 'Eastwards Ho' and the performances were accompanied by the theatre's own orchestra and organist.
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The journal was an outgrowth of a 1972 University of London seminar on peasantries. It was established in 1973 with Terence J. Byres (1973–2000), Charles Curwen (1973–1984), and Teodor Shanin (1973–1975) as founding editors-in-chief. Other past editors of the journal have been Henry Bernstein (1985–2000) and Tom Brass (1990–1998, 2000–2008). The current editor is Saturnino Borras, Jr.
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Hillhead (, )List of railway station names in English, Scots and Gaelic – NewsNetScotland is an area of Glasgow, Scotland. Situated north of Kelvingrove Park and to the south of the River Kelvin, Hillhead is at the heart of Glasgow's fashionable West End, with Byres Road forming the western border of the area, the other boundaries being Dumbarton Road to the south and the River Kelvin to the east and north.
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Born Henry Lindsay in Fife, he was a male-line descendant of Patrick Lindsay, 4th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, ancestor of the Earls of Crawford and Earls of Lindsay. He was the son of Maj. Martin Eccles Lindsay and Margaret Augusta Tovey. In 1779, his paternal grandfather adopted the surname and arms of Bethune as part of the entail of inheriting the estate of Kilconquhar from his maternal uncle.
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"The Song of Iowa" is the regional anthem of the U.S. state of Iowa, written by S. H. M. Byers in 1867 and adopted as the official state song by the Iowa State Legislature on March 20, 1911. The song is set to the tune "O Tannenbaum" and Byres' lyrics' theme is centered on his love and praise for Iowa.John Hladczuk and Sharon Scheider Hladczuk. State Songs and Their Origins.
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Level 3 is the lowest level, and represents the natural ground level on this part of the ridge. Mound H is a badly ruined mound, southwest of the main structures on Levels 1 and 2, an axis with Mound E and former Mound I.La Farge and Byres 1931, pp. 218, 220. Mound I was a small, badly ruined structure southwest of the principal structures on Levels 1 and 2.
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First shown as a 'Laird's' house in 1832, by 1858 Threepwood House is shown above Mid Town as a substantial group of buildings with a square ornamental garden with internal paths lying in a walled garden immediately to the west of the house. An older house has had byres and other outbuildings built to transform the house into a farm. Substantial woodland policies were planted nearby with Tandle Hill nearby.
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The Forrests moved to Byres Farm. East Lambroughton Farm from the old Entrance to Townhead of Lambroughton at the Lochridge Burn Bridge The farmhouse was eventually divided into three separate 'flats' with the three families being McNiven, Rae and Kelly. The McNiven's were the first occupants of Number 3, Chapeltoun Terrace and the Rae's were the first to occupy Number 4. Jimmy Rae had been the Ploughman at Castleton Farm.
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Early horse drawn railway and coach. The old Ordnance Survey maps indicate that this building sat just behind and parallel to the horse drawn waggonway trackbed, opened in 1831 to Byres at Kilwinning and ran up to Doura by 1834, ending at the coal pits. Later the building had the Perceton / Sourlie freight Branch of the Glasgow and South Western Railway located in front of it. A door was set into the gables ends.
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In August 1781 Townley wrote to James Byres, the antiquary and dealer in Rome, that "Mr Zoffany is painting, in the Stile of his Florence tribune, a room in my house, wherein he introduces what Subjects he chuses in my collection. It will be a picture of extraordinary effect & truth..." (Kitto 2005). Engaged in discussion with him are three fellow connoisseurs, the palaeographer Charles Astle, Hon. Charles Francis Greville, F.R.S., and Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville.
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The 'brains trust' panel is rounded out by the hard- of-hearing Doctor McAdam and the chippy local Labour MP Joseph Byres. With the help of his secretary, Private Jessie Killigrew, the chaplain manages to organise the event. The hall is relatively well filled. Trying to avoid anything controversial, Paris forbids any discussion of politics or religion and begins with some innocuous questions about cows chasing after trains and if the Moon is inhabited.
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Things soon become heated when Mr Byres, the local MP, takes offence at comments directed at him and threatens to start a fight. Having only just averted this, a question about marriage from Killigrew reveals the fragility of the Prouts' marriage. Fearing any controversy, Paris quickly announces that it is time for the interval. As word spreads around the camp of the goings-on, the second half begins with the room completely packed.
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The main axis of the site has an orientation of S 52° E, aligned along the spur occupied by the ruins.La Farge and Byres 1931, p. 219. The site is distributed over three different levels, consisting of the ground level of the ridge, an area of elevated terrain to the northeast, and a depression to the southwest. The elevation and the depression were both natural features that were incorporated into the pre- Columbian town.
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Ella supported her brother's passionate interest in aeronautics which, she remembered, he had had since childhood. At Byres Road they kept birds in order to observe them in flight and landing. Percy followed the experiments of German pioneer glider Otto Lilienthal closely, and made scale models of gliders which he would fly around the apartment. In early 1895 the siblings decided to make a full sized prototype of what they called a 'soaring machine'.
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Lindsay of the Byres remained a supporter of James III of Scotland after his son Prince James had left Stirling Castle as the figurehead of a rival faction. He was present at the battle of Sauchieburn at Bannockburn on 11 June 1488. James III was killed. The historian Norman Macdougall finds the story of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie that the King tried to escape on a horse provided by his ancestor Lord Lindsay unlikely.
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Barras. The upper side has one double doorway for access to the threshing floor. Usually stone built, British bank barns are rectangular buildings. They usually have a central threshing area with hay or corn (cereal) storage bays on either side on the upper floor; and byres, stables, cartshed or other rooms below. The threshing barn on the upper floor was entered by double doors in the long wall approached from a raised bank: these banks could be artificially created.
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It is efficient also as a way of escaping inflation, hence its rise in 16th-century France and Italy.Sharecropping and Sharecroppers, T J Byres It also gave sharecroppers a vested interest in the land, incentivizing hard work and care. American plantations were, however, wary of this interest, as they felt that would lead to African Americans demanding rights of partnership. Many black laborers denied the unilateral authority that landowners hoped to achieve, further complicating relations between landowners and sharecroppers.
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The only fatality was the Master, James Byres, who drowned while attempting to swim ashore with a line. She spent much of 1851 conducting anti-slavery patrols off the coast of Brazil. On 11 February 1851 she captured the slave brig Mangano in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro. The slaver was sent for adjudication to the Vice-Admiralty Court at St. Helena, and in June 1851 she was sentenced to be restored to her master without costs.
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In 1615 John Byres the city Treasurer built a new house called Coates Hall to the west of the city. The house had a truly huge estate, stretching to St Cuthbert's Church.The Closes and Wynds of Edinburgh: The Old Edinburgh Club Around 1800 the estate was bought by William Walker who began developing the east section of the estate, adjacent to the then newly built New Town. This included William Street and Walker Street, named after himself.
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There is strong archaeological evidence that people at Leopard's Kopje kept cattle. Vitrified and angular blocks of dung mark the perimeters of ancient cattle byres. These kraals were located at the center of villages, rather than to the edge of a settlement, meaning cattle would have been a central and important part of daily life. Huffman discovered a large white zone in the stratigraphy of the Mambo phase level that is believed to be cattle manure.
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18th century house (c.1760) on Ratho Main St Bridge Inn, Ratho Ratho appears in written records from 1243 with various spellings such as Rath (ewe, eu, ew, ow, au) but most consistently, from 1292, with its present name Ratho. Other places nearby having "Ratho" in their names include Ratho Byres, Ratho Park and Ratho Bank (now named Ashley). It is believed that the name Ratho comes from Rath, Scottish Gaelic, for a place where there are hill forts.
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Fraser Vol I, p. 329 Archibald's conquest of Galloway was depicted on his seal, which depicts two "wild men" holding up his arms. In 1378 Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie, a nephew of Archibald Douglas, took Berwick by surprise with 50 men, and was immediately besieged by the town's governor Thomas de Musgrave. Douglas and Lord Lyndsay of the Byres massed a relief army at Haddington, little more than 500 in number, but marched anyway hoping to collect more men on the way.
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The Italianate monument to Sir George Mackenzie was designed by the architect James Smith, and modelled on the Tempietto di San Pietro, designed by Donato Bramante.Gifford, John (1989) William Adam 1689–1748, Mainstream Publishing / RIAS. pp.62–67 Duncan Ban MacIntyre's memorial was renovated in 2005, at a cost of about £3,000, raised by a fundraising campaign of over a year. The monument of John Byres of Coates, 1629, was one of the last works of the royal master mason William Wallace.
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This level consists of the highest portion of the site, occupying the northern portion of the ridge. A portion of the southeastern side of Level 1 is exposed bedrock; the rest of the southeast side, together with the southwest side, have been terraced into steps. Access to Level 1 from Level 2 is presumed to have been by a stairway on the southeast side, but any evidence of these has been eroded by a modern path.La Farge and Byres 1931, pp. 219-220.
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Arms of the Earl of Haddington Mellerstain House Tyninghame Earl of Haddington is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1627 for the noted Scottish lawyer and judge Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Melrose. He was Lord President of the Court of Session from 1616 to 1625. Hamilton had already been created Lord Binning in 1613 and Lord Binning and Byres, in the County of Haddington, and Earl of Melrose, in the County of Roxburgh, in 1619.
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The last ever notice of Dúghall occurs in a charter of the lord of Byres, wherein Dúghall appears along with the Duke of Albany and Walter Trail, Bishop of St Andrews; the charter can be dated between 1398 (creation of the Duchy of Albany) and 1401 (the death of Walter Trail). It is not known for certain that he is dead until 10 September 1403, when his successor Fionnlagh MacCailein was provided as the new Bishop of Dunblane.Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, p.
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James Stewart, 1st Lord Doune (1529-1590) was a Scottish landowner. James Stewart was the son of Sir James Stewart of Beith (d. 1547), Constable of Doune Castle, who was the third son of Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avondale, and Margaret Lindsay daughter of John Lindsay, 3rd Lord Lindsay of the Byres, widow of Richard, Lord Innermeath. His father was killed at Dunblane in 1547 by Edmondstone of Duntreath and his followers, in a quarrel over the office of Steward of Menteith.
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After his second term of office he was succeeded by Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall in 1654.History of Edinburgh from its Foundation to the Present Time in 9 Books: Book 3 p.227: Civil Government He died on 9 February 1656 aged 71 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. The grave is largely illegible but lies between the tomb of William Chalmers and the tomb of John Byres of Coites (Coates), behind the sunken vault of John Baptist Medina.
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Son of Archibald Cockburn of Cockpen and wife (m. 17 August 1735) Martha Dundas, daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston (? - 1727) and wife Margaret Sinclair, daughter of Sir Robert Sinclair of Murkle and Stevenston, 3rd Baronet (1643 - 1713), and first wife (m. Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 10 September 1663) Lady Helen Lindsay, daughter of John Lindsay (c. 1611 - Tyninghame, East Lothian, 1678), 17th Earl of Crawford, 1st Earl of Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 1st Lord Parbroath and Hereditary Steward of St Andrews, etc.
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After his return from war service, Green-Armytage was promoted to major in the IMS in 1919, and finally to lieutenant colonel in 1927 before retiring in 1933. He was professor of gynaecology and obstetrics at the Eden Hospital from 1922 to 1933. Before leaving India, Green-Armytage received a volume of his addresses that was prepared and published by the medical women of India as a symbol of their appreciation for his service. In 1927, he married Mary Vera Moir-Byres née Gibson in Rangoon.
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He unsuccessfully tried to re-enter the House of Commons in 1960 at the Bolton East by-election. On 22 December 1964 Byers was created a life peer as Baron Byres, of Lingfield in the County of SurreyThe Times, 23 December 1964 and three years later he became leader of the Liberal peers. He was created a Privy Councillor in 1972.The Times, 3 June 1972 Outside Parliament, Byers was a businessman, a director of Rio Tinto Zinc from 1962–73 and a broadcaster.
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Lindsay was the second surviving son to Sir David de Lindsay of Crawford and the Byres, and Mary Abernethy, widow of Andre de Leschelyn (Leslie), and a daughter and co-heiress of Alexander de Abernethy. Lindsay's father had been Constable of Edinburgh Castle and Berwick and active during the Wars of Independence. Lindsay was esquire to his cousin Thomas Stewart, 2nd Earl of Angus. Lindsay inherited his mother's lands in Angus, and also acquired some of the baronies allotted to his aunt Marget Aberhethy, Countess of Angus.
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The West End Festival in Glasgow was started in 1996 by Michael Dale as a small local festival centred on Byres Road. It has since become the biggest festival in Glasgow's calendar with events running for 16 days in June. It has been used as a model for other festival start-ups, as with minimal local authority or Scottish Arts Council funding, and has grown with each festival. Its centrepiece carnival parade is the largest carnival event in the UK after Notting Hill in London.
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In 2000, playwright Louise Burfitt-Dons (born Louise Byres), published in 2001 40 anti-bullying monologues called Act Against Bullying for teachers to use in the classroom, because her daughter had been bullied at school. Burfitt-Dons was concerned that the advice given to victims to simply report the abuse could lead to further abuse. The monologues reported the insidiousness of the newer forms of bullying and offered an insight into what they could do. 'I didn't realise what I had started,' said Burfitt-Dons.
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The inscription on the monument reads: Prior to succeeding to the earldom, John Hope served at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801 and, later, in the Peninsular War (1808–1814) where he was knighted for his heroic deeds at the Battle of Corunna. There is another similar Hopetoun Monument on Byres Hill near Haddington in East Lothian which was built in 1824. At present the summit of Mount Hill affords an excellent panorama due to the felling of the forestry plantation around the monument. The monument is easily accessible by forest tracks.
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The Scotsman, 30 January 1943: 'now on view in temporary premises, 156 Byres Road, Glasgow'. Currently (May 2020) the Art UK website lists 36 oil paintings by Allan in public collections, including Birmingham Museums Trust; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; The Fleming Collection, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery; Windsor & Royal Borough Museum; Sheffield Museums; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums; Dunedin Public Art Gallery New Zealand; Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, North Lanarkshire; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull: and Manchester Art Gallery.Art UK: Robert Weir Allan.
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Stelae were rarely erected in the highlands after the Preclassic period, and their presence at the site may indicate contacts with the Maya lowlands, where a strong tradition of raising stelae existed during the Classic period. Wajxaklajun is close to Quen Santo, a Classic-period site with hieroglyphic inscriptions. The first modern investigator to mention the ruins was Franz Termer, a German who visited the site in 1926, and mentioned it in print the following year. La Farge and Byres published a detailed description of the site in 1931.
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Land use is outlined for the stewards, stating that fish ponds, byres, pigsties, sheepfolds, goat-pens, mills, and barns should all be included in the property. The amount of land that should be protected as forest space and the amount that should be cleared is also stipulated. The capitulary also gives some indication of a system of villae on royal estates kept ready and fully equipped to receive the king. and is designed to guarantee that certain basic necessities were to be found in each of the residences.
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101, 105, 113 A few months later a party of horsemen from Edinburgh went to his estate of the Byres and seized a large number of his cattle,Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 241 but on the following day, Lindsay, in a victorious skirmish with the enemy in the High Street of Edinburgh, took Lord Seton prisoner. During the absence of the Regent at the parliament at Stirling Lindsay on 23 August was chosen lieutenant in Leith. On 31 August a powerful attack was made upon him, but he drove the enemy back to Edinburgh.
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Experts believe that Stuxnet required the largest and costliest development effort in malware history. Developing its many abilities would have required a team of highly capable programmers, in-depth knowledge of industrial processes, and an interest in attacking industrial infrastructure. Eric Byres, who has years of experience maintaining and troubleshooting Siemens systems, told Wired that writing the code would have taken many man-months, if not man-years. Symantec estimates that the group developing Stuxnet would have consisted of between five and thirty people, and would have taken six months to prepare.
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As of 2020, Fopp has five shops across England and Scotland - London Covent Garden, Manchester, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Union Street. Until 2007 there were 50 Fopp shops and 37 outlets branded as Music Zone throughout England, Scotland and Wales. Fopp appeared in The Scotsman's list of the 250 Biggest Scottish Companies of 2005.Scotsman 250 (2005), Scotsman Online, accessed 16 September 2007 In February 2019 it was announced that the shops in Oxford, Bristol, Manchester and Byres Road will close,, however the store in Manchester reopened soon after, in May 2019.
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The Chapel Hill from near Chapeltoun Mains. Alternative local names for the burial mound are the 'Jockey's cap' and the 'Monk's Graveyard', the 1897 OS map states that human bones were found in the hill. The Forrest family of Byres Farm are direct descendants of the Templetons and they use the term 'Monk's Graveyard' for the Chapel Hill. The validity of oral tradition in this case is exceptionally strong and may indicate that the chapel was not on the mound but on the site of the old Chapelton House.
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Strawhorn, Page 104 Gavin Hamilton's married daughter, Mrs Todd, recalled Mary Campbell coming to look after her brother Alexander as a nursemaid in 1785, describing Mary as 'very pleasant and winning', though not a beauty. From Mauchline, she moved to Coilsfield House, later Montgomery Castle, where she was employed as a dairy- maid or byres-woman. She gained this position through the offices of Miss Arbukle of Campbeltown who had married into the Eglinton family. According to Grierson, who met Mary's sister, Mrs Anderson, in 1817, Mary was "tall, fair haired with blue eyes".
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Pitscottie provided a story that, on the eve of the battle, his ancestor David Lord Lindsay of the Byres presented James III with a "great grey horse" that would carry him faster than any other horse into or away from the battle. Unfortunately, the horse threw the King during the battle, and James III was either killed in the fall, or was finished off by enemy soldiers.Macdougall, Norman, James III, John Donald (1982), pp.261-2 Prince James ascended to the throne, and reigned as James IV for 25 years.
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The orphans returned to England, the charges of the eldest brother Thomas Pilcher, who at 19 joined the army to pay for the schooling of his sisters. Percy was enrolled as a naval cadet at the age of 13 and upon graduation pursued an apprenticeship in the engineering department of a Glasgow shipyard. Ella went with Percy to Glasgow as his companion and housekeeper, while Ada Violet stayed south with Thomas. Ella and Percy lived in a flat in Byres Road, Glasgow, and were remembered by friends as bright, clever and attractive.
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His son, William, came into the possessions of the Priory in the last quarter of the seventeenth century and was registered as owner of the townslands of Lagg, Ballybeg and Old Grange. The last recorded titular Prior of Ballybeg was John Baptist Sleyne (1635–1712), Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, who died in exile at Lisbon. "To-day, oxen and asses rest and ruminate under the shadow of the church of the Austins of Ballybeg, the stone coffins of the monks their watering troughs, and the tombs where rest the bones of abbots their byres".
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The nearby viaduct over the Annick Water is in excellent condition having been restored in 2005 / 2006. A footpath had run down from Cunninghamhead House to the station, reaching the road via an embankment in the field and passing through the fine sandstone wall which runs down from the bridge. The footpath 'gap' was closed in 2006 when this wall was rebuilt. Locals living at Cunninghamhead and Byres Farm relate that the station was known locally as 'Kerr's Halt' in the 1940s as the two Kerr family sisters from the Cunninghamhead Estate used this station frequently.
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One of the millers here was a cousin of the Smiths of Coldstream Mill and he taught them the milling craft (Griffith 2004). A track from the mill ran to Byres Farm and thus to the main road (Bartholomew 1912). The leat for the mill ran from a dam on the other side of the 'river loop', then behind the miller's dwelling to finally run under the road to enter the mill site. It is said locally that the dam was removed, after the closure of the mill, by the anglers, who lost salmon to poachers gaffing them as they leapt over it.
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In the second half of the century Scots became the major figures in the trade in antique sculpture, particularly Gavin Hamilton, Colin Morison (1732–1801) and James Byres (1734–1817), making them the arbiters of British taste in this area. However, the only major Scottish collection of marble before the nineteenth century was that of James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale.Skinner, "Scottish Connoisseurship and the Grand Tour", pp. 39–40. Scottish artists in the later eighteenth century were strongly influenced by the Enlightenment, which stressed rationalism and human inquiry, of which Scotland was a major centre of influence.
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The Hopetoun Monument on Byres Hill The viewing platform at the top is reached by 132 steps of a dark, narrow, spiral staircase, and offers views of the Firth of Forth and the surrounding countryside. The monument is a category B listed building. A path runs from a small car park at the base of the hill, winding up steeply through wooded slopes, and a corridor of gorse, before coming out onto the open hilltop. The views can be superb: The Firth of Forth and Fife; Edinburgh and the Pentland Hills to the west; and The Lammermuir Hills to the South.
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Born in London, he was the fourth surviving son of West Indies merchant Beeston Long and his wife Sarah Cropp. A senior branch of the family of Hurts Hall in Suffolk established themselves in Jamaica after the conquest of the island in 1665. Educated at a private school in Greenwich and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Long matriculated in 1779, but is not known to have taken a degree. He was entered at the Inner Temple, later making the grand tour between 1786 and 1788, exploring Rome and laying the foundation of his art collection under the tuition of James Byres.
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The first Fopp shop was a market stall in Decourcey's Arcade near Byres Road in Glasgow opened 1981 by Gordon Montgomery. Fopp operated a "keep-it-simple" approach to the pricing of its merchandise, with most prices rounded to whole-pound figures. It built a reputation for reasonable prices on new releases, and competitive prices (often £5) on non-mainstream catalogue CDs, DVDs and books. The company also had a policy called "suck it and see", whereby any purchase could be returned to the shop within 28 days for a full refund as long as it was as new.
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Between 1778 and 1780, Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador in Naples, bought the vase from James Byres, a Scottish art dealer, who had acquired it after it was sold by Cornelia Barberini-Colonna, Princess of Palestrina. She had inherited the vase from the Barberini family. Hamilton brought it to England on his next leave, after the death of his first wife, Catherine. In 1784, with the assistance of his niece, Mary, he arranged a private sale of the vase to Margaret Cavendish-Harley, widow of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, and dowager Duchess of Portland.
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The Scoobie Snack consists of a hamburger, a sliced sausage, a bacon rasher, a potato scone, a fried egg and a slice of processed cheese, all contained within a floured hamburger bun and accompanied by tomato ketchup and brown sauce. Fried onions are also offered as an optional extra. The Scoobie Snack, because of the sausage, cheese, bacon and egg, takes similar resemblance to a breakfast roll but is often eaten at lunchtime. The Scooby Snack's invention is accredited to The Maggie Snack Bar, a food truck located for over 50 years at the intersection of Byres Road and Great Western Road.
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His ceiling mural (in collaboration with Nichol Wheatley) for the auditorium of the Òran Mór venue on Byres Road is one of the largest works of art in Scotland and was painted over several years. It shows Adam and Eve embracing against a night sky, with modern people from Glasgow in the foreground. In 1977–1978, Gray worked for the People's Palace museum, as Glasgow's "artist recorder", funded by a scheme set up by the Labour government. He produced hundreds of drawings of the city, including portraits of politicians, people in the arts, members of the general public and workplaces with workers.
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is Glasgow's premier museum and art gallery, housing one of Europe's best civic art collections. Glasgow's West End grew firstly to and around Blythswood Square and Garnethill, extending then to Woodlands Hill and Great Western Road. It is a district of elegant townhouses and tenements with cafés, tea rooms, bars, boutiques, upmarket hotels, clubs and restaurants in the hinterland of Kelvingrove Park, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Botanic Gardens and the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, focused especially on the area's main thoroughfares of Argyle Street (Finnieston), Great Western Road and Byres Road. The area is popular with tourists and students.
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From 1628 until his death Wallace was engaged on the design and construction of Heriot's Hospital, a school, again in the Anglo- Flemish style. He was almost certainly the principal designer of the building, which was continued after his death by William Aytoun. One of Wallace's last works was carving the monument to John Byres of Coates in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, unpaid for at his death, and his will also includes debts for works at Moray House for the Countess of Home. In addition, Pinkie House and the original, unexecuted, design for Drumlanrig Castle have been attributed to Wallace on stylistic grounds, although no documentary evidence exists to confirm his involvement.
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Keith then gave the lands of Dunnottar to his daughter Christian and son-in-law William Lindsay of Byres, but in 1392 an excambion (exchange) was agreed whereby Keith regained Dunnottar and Lindsay took lands in Fife. William Keith completed construction of the tower house at Dunnottar, but was excommunicated for building on the consecrated ground associated with the parish church. Keith had provided a new parish church closer to Stonehaven, but was forced to write to the Pope, Benedict XIII, who issued a bull in 1395 lifting the excommunication. William Keith's descendants were made Earls Marischal in the mid 15th century, and they held Dunottar until the 18th century.
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It is likely that this change was at least partially driven by a policy of 'Modernisation' carried out by the landowner the Duke of Argyll, as it was believed this system would generate greater incomes for the inhabitants allowing for greater rents to be charged. At its height the settlement included a School, two corn- drying kilns, one if not two horizontal watermills, around 12 dwellings built in the typical local-fashion with rounded-corners, as well as other agricultural structures including byres, peat-drying stacks, and possibly a small chapel. The remains of most of these buildings are still clearly visible. The population in the mid-1800s was around 130.
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Farmstead of Bohuslav Reynek in Petrkov His poems are meditative and inspired by the Czech landscape, rural life in the farmstead and deep Christian humanism. What is noteworthy is the delicate way in which religious themes are refracted through images of his immediate surroundings; the poems invest everyday objects and scenes (such as the farm animals, their byres, the rhythms of the working week) with a spiritual luminescence, a bright edge, and this is done so delicately that at no point does it feel imposed. He employs, for the most part, traditional forms, with inventive rhymes. Reynek was a graphic artist and a translator of French and German.
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His plan for the square and its adjacent streets was sketched out by architect James Gillespie Graham in 1819. The four Georgian terraces forming the square are Category A listed buildings and were completed in the 1820s by the trustees and successors of William Harley, and have facades designed by architect John Brash. Harley also developed his new business establishments at the eastern end of Bath Street, pioneering the supply of piped water, first public baths in Scotland, the advanced Willow Bank byres and dairy and associated bakehouses. From the 1900s the luxurious houses increasingly became offices and clubs, including on the eastern side the Royal Scottish Automobile Club, which was restyled internally by architect James Miller in 1923.
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Sir Alexander Lindsay (died 1308), Lord of Barnweill, Byres and Crawford, also known as Alexander de Lindsay, was a Scottish noble. Alexander was the eldest son of Sir David Lindsay of Barnweill and Margaret de Lindsay. He swore fealty and homage to King Edward I of England on 28 July 1296 at Berwick. On 9 July 1297, Alexander, together with Sir James Stewart, High Steward of Scotland, Sir John Stewart of Bonkyll, Sir Robert de Brus, jure uxoris Earl of Carrick and Robert Wishart, Bishop of Glasgow capitulated at Irvine. He was on the English side in the Bishop of Durham Antony Bek’s division during the Battle of Falkirk on 22 July 1298 that defeated the Scottish army.
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He married firstly, before 24 March 1615 (contract date October 1614),Julian dates with 1 January as the start of year (See Old Style and New Style dates) Margaret, widow of Hugh Montgomerie, Earl of Eglintoun, first daughter and, after 1613, heir of the Hon. Robert Montgomerie, of Giffen, by Jean, first daughter of Sir Matthew Campbell, of Loudoun. She was living as his wife as of 4 March 1616, but died s.p., in 1616. He married secondly (contract date 9 December 1617), Christian, widow of Robert Lindsay, Lord Lindsay of Byres, first daughter of Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, by his first wife, Margaret, daughter of James Borthwick, of Newbyres.
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Coates Hall was bought by William Walker around 1800. His spinster daughters, Mary and Barbara Walker, gifted both the garden of their home and huge funds to the Episcopal Church of Scotland in 1873 for the building of St Mary's Cathedral. In 1887 (following the death of the sisters) Coates Hall (Easter Coates) became the Cathedral Choir School serving the then newly built St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral being remodelled by George Gilbert Scott and John Oldrid Scott, architects for the cathedral next door (which now dwarfs Coates Hall).Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker It is noteworthy that the Walker sisters chose to be buried next to John Byres in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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The modern settlement of Ralston takes its name from the ancient feudal estates of Ralphistoun (Ralph's town), named after the younger son of the Earl of Fife, to whom the lands were given in the early 12th century. The feudal estates included the lands of Auldtoun (now Oldhall), Hullhead, Barshaw, Whitehaugh, Byres, Honeybog, Pennilee, Maylee and Ralstonwood. When the use of surnames was adopted in the Scottish Lowlands, the descendants of the Earl's younger son named themselves 'Ralston' after the estates. The lands remained in the Ralston family until 1704 when they were sold by Gavin Ralston to John, Earl of Dundonald, who conferred them on his daughter, Lady Anne Cochrane, when she married James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton.
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Then the earldom of Lindsay passed to David Lindsay, while the earldom of Crawford became dormant because no-one could prove a claim to the title until 1848. Both David, 7th Earl of Lindsay, and his successor Patrick, 8th Earl of Lindsay, died without sons, and the disputed claim over the earldom was resolved by the House of Lords in 1878 in favour of Sir John Trotter Bethune, 2nd Baronet. The subsidiary titles of the Earl are: Viscount of Garnock (created 1703), Lord Lindsay of The Byres (1445), Lord Parbroath (1633) and Lord Kilbirnie, Kingsburn and Drumry (1703), all in the Peerage of Scotland. The title Viscount Garnock is used as the courtesy title for the eldest son and heir to the Earl.
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In October 1860, several of the new dwellings were damaged by a severe gale, and repairs were sufficient only to make them suitable for use as byres. According to Alasdair MacGregor's analysis of the settlement, the sixteen modern, zinc-roofed cottages amidst the black houses and new Factor's house seen in most photographs of the native islanders were constructed around 1862.MacGregor (1969) page 129. The Feather Store, where fulmar and gannet feathers were kept, and sold to pay the rent One of the more poignant ruins on Hirta is the site of 'Lady Grange's House'. Lady Grange had been married to the Jacobite sympathiser James Erskine, Lord Grange, for 25 years when he decided that she might have overheard too many of his treasonable plottings.
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In June 2017, Peckham's Scotland Limited was placed into liquidation shortly after the two remaining stores were taken over by two local businessmen. The pair were able to save 25 jobs and the two remaining branches (Byres Road and Hyndland Road) and continue trading as Peckham's in the community. In August 2018, Peckham's announced the closure of both remaining stores after the pair failed to attract additional investment in the stores, after just 14 months of their purchase of the sites. Tony Johnson, the original owner of the Peckham's stores, later announced plans of opening up a new branch in Helensburgh, while suggesting that there was an existing legal battle in progress over the use of the brand in the previous two stores.
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The Chapel-lands Park with Kirkwood or Bloak Moss in the background On 25 July 1666, a summons was issued of Hew Neving of Kirkwood against John Richie in Byres of Kilwinning, for non-payment of £67 being the silver maill and duty of the lands of Darnboig, which belong to the pursuer. Darnboig, was in 1585, the property of Hugh Nevin, brother of Andrew Nevin of Monkredding. Hugh appears to have been the last of Nevin laird of Kirkwood; on 2 May 1667, the lands were incorporated into the Eglinton estates. A charter reads:Charter, granting to Hugh, Earl of Eglinton, Lord Montgomery and Kilwinning his heirs &c; the 2½ merk lands of the same called Kirkwood Neivine with building etc, the 2½ merk lands of Craiglie with the commomty of Large &c; . . .
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Sharecropping and Sharecroppers, T J Byres, page 18 In Italy and France, respectively, it was called mezzadria and métayage, or halving - the halving, that is, of the produce of the soil between landowner and land- holder. Halving didn't imply equal amounts of the produce but rather division according to agreement. The produce was divisible in certain definite proportions, which obviously must have varied with the varying fertility of the soil and other circumstances and did in practice vary so much that the landlord's share was sometimes as much as two-thirds, sometimes as little as one-third. Sometimes the landlord supplied all the stock, sometimes only part - the cattle and seed perhaps, while the farmer provided the implements; or perhaps only half the seed and half the cattle, the farmer finding the other halves.
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The son of a North American miner and a Jamaican mother, Luis Antonio Peirce Byres was born in Manzanillo, Cuba. In 1956 he founded the Havana photography studio Korda Studios with Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez. The name of the company came from the famous Hungarian-British film directors Alexander and Zoltan Korda, and both photographers came to be known by the name: Luis was known as Korda the Elder (Luis Korda) and Alberto as Korda the Younger (Alberto Korda). The range of work by the company spanned fashion and traditional advertising shoots, as well as shoots for recording labels, insurance, pharmaceuticals, promotional work for Bacardi and Hatuey, car dealerships etc. Photo journalism was also part of the studio’s output, reporting, for example, on the most famous Cuban motor racing event, the Carrera from Oinar del Rio via Saua la Grande to Havanna.
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Coca-Cola Place was designed by the Australian architectural firm Rice Daubney. Though the building employs a classic podium and tower design the tilted facades, modest proportions and the open public forecourt at the entrance soften the transitions from ground to podium and from podium to tower while simultaneously giving the building its distinctive form. Writing in INDESIGN magazine Angela Ferguson described Coca-Cola Place as ‘the best thing to happen to North Sydney, architecturally speaking, in a long time’. The Property Council’s NSW Executive Director, Glenn Byres has said that Coca-Cola Place ‘is what design excellence is all about - it is daring, iconic and a true landmark for Sydney’ The building has side-core floorplates with the elevator shafts and structural cores located on the North side of the building which abuts the adjacent development in the lower floors.
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View of Desmond Castle Castle buildings overlooking the River Ara A castle was built in the 13th century by the FitzGerald Earls of Desmond. Local folklore also connects it with the Knights Templar, perhaps confusing them with their house at Askeaton. By 1298, the castle had curtain walls and defensive towers surrounding the complex, with thatched houses, cattle byres and fishponds in the centre. Newcastle West was sacked in 1302 and destroyed in 1315. The present structure dates to the 15th century, with the hall and chamber built on the site of the earlier structure, and used for banqueting and entertainment. In 1591, during the Desmond Rebellions, the castle was seized by the Crown and granted to Sir William Courtenay on condition that 80 English colonists be settled in the area as part of the Munster Plantation.
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A most unusual story that has Robert Muir as a central participant with John Goldie the 'Philosopher' at its heart is the tale of the 'Beanscroft Devil' set at the time of the poet Robert Burns. The entrance lane to Beanscroft Farm. Beanscroft Farm lies on Grassyards Road in the parish of Fenwick in East Ayrshire a few miles to the west of Kilmarnock and the farmer there was known as a good, honest, hard work and God fearing member of the community, however strange happenings at the farmhouse and in the byres slowly convinced him and his family that he was being regularly tormented by none other a personage than the Devil himself. The other worldly disturbances had started in a minor way with sounds and movements that could be ascribed to the wind or the cat, however shifting furniture, strange shrieks and howls, etc.
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Archibald Barr and William Stroud had been associated from as early as 1888 when the two men were professors of, respectively, engineering and physics at the Yorkshire College (now the University of Leeds). In 1891 they were approached by the Admiralty to submit a design for a short-base rangefinder for trial. By this time, Barr had returned to Scotland and taken the post of Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow. Although apart, Barr and Stroud kept in close touch and in 1892 they were awarded with a contract for six of their rangefinders. Barr and Stroud Attack Periscope Type CH74 - RAN Oberon-class submarine In 1895, Barr & Stroud's Patents Ltd was renting workshop space near the university, at 250 Byres Road, Glasgow, but demand for the product soon necessitated a move to larger premises in Ashton Lane, Glasgow.
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Portrait of James Tassie by David Allan, c. 1781 After the Acts of Union in 1707 there was very little patronage for large and expensive works of art in Scotland. The royal family spent very little time in, or money on, Scottish palaces and many Scottish nobles followed the royal court to England, tending to invest in sculpture for their residences in London, rather than their estates in Scotland. In the late eighteenth century the development of the Grand Tour took young Scottish aristocrats to the continent, particularly Rome, which was home to the exiled Jacobite Stuarts, and led to the buying of artistic works including sculpture and interest in classical and Renaissance styles. In the second half of the century Scots became the major figures in the trade in antique sculpture, particularly Gavin Hamilton (1723–98), Colin Morison (1732–1801) and James Byres (1734–1817), making them the arbiters of British taste in this area.
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At least four remain--on Great Western Road (at the corner of Byres Road); Buchanan Street (at the corner of Royal Bank Place); Wilson Street (at the intersection of Glassford Street, completely restored); and one near the corner of Cathedral Square (at the corner of Castle Street, also restored). There was also a red police box preserved in the Glasgow Museum of Transport but this was returned to the Civil Defence Trust after Glasgow City Council decided it did not fit in with the new Transport Museum. The police boxes in Glasgow on Great Western Road, Cathedral Square, and Buchanan Street are currently under licence to a Glasgow-based coffee outlet. , only the Great Western Road and Buchanan Street boxes have been transformed to dispense beverages, and restrictions are enforced by the Civil Defence & Emergency Service Preservation Trust to prevent the exterior of the boxes from being modified beyond the trademarked design.
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Ayrshire Roots Retrieved : 2 March 2014 The 'Kings' Road'Old Roads of Scotland Retrieved 1 March 2014 as it is traditionally known, ran from Kilwinning Abbey, through Byres, up through the lands of Ashgrove to take the 'Auld Clay Road' that branches off just before Lochwood. Armstrong's map of circa 1747 shows that the only direct inland Kilwinning to Portencross road ran along a route that has now largely been abandoned or is now used only by farm vehicles, etc. Armstrong's and other maps show that the route was as follows, modern spellings are in brackets: Kilwinning – Ashgrove – Bankend – the Old Clay Road – Muirhead – Darleith – Ettington (Itlington) – Knock – Edward (Knockewart?) – Newton – Springside – Kilbride (West Kilbride) – Arneal (Auld Hill) – Porting Cross (Portencross).Armstrong's Map Retrieved : 1 March 2014 It has been suggested that this road was of Roman origin, the 'Avondale Roman Road',Old Roads of Scotland known later as the 'Haaf Weg' translating as the 'road to the sea' a possible surviving reference being the 'Halfway Street' still to be found in West Kilbride.
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An unusual story has John Goldie at its heart and that is the tale of the 'Beanscroft Devil' set at the time of the poet Robert Burns: The entrance lane to Beanscroft Farm. Beanscroft Farm lies on Grassyards Road in the parish of Fenwick in East Ayrshire a few miles to the west of Kilmarnock and the farmer there was known as a good, honest, hard work and God fearing member of the community, however strange happenings at the farmhouse and in the byres slowly convinced him and his family that he was being regularly tormented by none other a personage than the Devil himself. The other worldly disturbances had started in a minor way with sounds and movements that could be ascribed to the wind or the cat, however shifting furniture, strange shrieks and howls, etc. could not be so easily dismissed and the strange appearance of moving lights of different colours and the breaking of the ropes that tethered the cattle without signs of cutting were beyond any straight forward explanation.
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Situated to the west of Glasgow city centre, the core of the ward which has remained since its 2007 creation consists of Hillhead, Kelvinbridge, Gilmorehill (the University of Glasgow main campus), Woodlands and Woodside, with boundaries being the M8 motorway to the south-east and the Port Dundas branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal to the north-east. Other aspects of the ward were substantially altered in 2017, with the Dowanhill and Hyndland neighbourhoods reassigned to a new Partick East/Kelvindale ward and Byres Road becoming the south-west boundndary; most of the North Kelvinside neighbourhood (streets to the east of Queen Margaret Drive, which became Hillhead's north-west boundary) was gained from the Canal ward, and the Park District (along with Kelvingrove Park itself) was gained from the Anderston/City ward, with the park's south entrances the new southern boundary of Hillhead. Following these alterations, it was the smallest ward in physical size but the most densely populated, despite the park taking up a proportion of the territory.
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I curse them gangand > [going], and I curse them rydand [riding], I curse thaim standand, and I > curse thaim sittand; I curse them etand [eating], I curse thaim drinkand, I > curse thaim walkland, I curse thaim sleepand, I curse thaim rysand, I curse > thaim lyand; I curse thaim at hame, I curse thaim [..away..] fra hame, I > curse them within the house, I curse thaim without the house, I curse thair > wiffis, thair barnis [children], and thair servandis participand with thaim > in thair deides. I wary [curse] thair cornys, thair catales, thair woll, > thair scheip, thair horse, thair swyne, thair geise [geese], thair hennys, > and all thair quyk gude [livestock]. I wary thair hallis, thair chalmeris > [rooms], thair kechingis, thair stanillis [stables], thair barnys, thair > biris [byres], thair bernyardis, thair cailyardis [vegetable-patches], thair > plewis [ploughs], thair harrowis, and the gudis and housis that is necessair > for their sustentatioun and weilfair. The Monition not only curses the Reivers themselves, but their horses, their clothing, their crops, and all who aid them in any way.
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Some of these early works in short form, such as Jeddart Justice and The Changeling, were also picked up by other non-professional companies around the country and entered in the annual Scottish Community Drama Association competitions of the era. McLellan's first notable success came in 1936 with Curtain's production of his full-length three-act comedy, Toom Byres, set among the Border reivers in the early days of the reign of James VI. This was quickly followed in 1937 by Jamie the Saxt, set in the same period but this time in an urban milieu, its action taking place in and around the court in Edinburgh and featuring the king himself in his prime. This latter production, with the young Duncan Macrae famously creating a sensation in the title role, is generally regarded as the one which confirmed McLellan's reputation as a comic dramatist of substance in Scots. McLellan is known to have been briefly resident in England as a screenwriter at some point around this time, but for whatever reason he soon came back to Scotland, marrying in 1938 and settling on the Isle of Arran.
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Peter Beckford was born the only son of Julines Beckford of Iwerne Stepleton, Dorset in 1740. He was a nephew of William Beckford, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and cousin of William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844), author of the Gothic novel Vathek and builder of the folly Fonthill Abbey. Stepleton House, Iwerne Steepleton, Dorset In 1765, on the death of his father, Beckford inherited his estate at Stepleton House in the parish of Iwerne Stepleton near Blandford Forum in Dorset, and set out on his first visit to Italy. On the way he met Voltaire and Rousseau at Geneva, and hunted with the king of Savoy. In 1766 he visited Rome, where he was escorted by James Byres, bought several antiquities, and commissioned a modern portrait (probably the portrait of Beckford by Pompeo Batoni).A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 Compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive by John Ingamells (1997), p.70-71.I. Bignamini, Digging And Dealing In Eighteenth-Century Rome (2010), p.238-239 There he was so impressed by the young Muzio Clementi's musical talent that he persuaded Clementi's father to let him take Clementi to his estate in Britain for seven years.
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