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Gala 11 Photos

GOW Community — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:28:09 +0000

The rain stayed away allowing for yet another fantastic Gibson Street Gala as these photos contest. Well done to all those involved in making such an enjoyable day.

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Gala 11 Preparations

GOW Community — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:22:06 +0000

The hard work by the community that went into the early morning preparations so that everyone could enjoy the Gala in the afternoon.

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Party policed

GOW Community — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:39:51 +0000

The party in Kelvingrove park on April 29th descended at it’s forced closure into chaos. Organisers had called for respect to be shown for the park and other users, but significant numbers of attendees, overly drunk and of ugly mood helped the event to an ungainly conclusion.

Police were in attendance in small teams during the day, many on bike for quick mobility. However, throughout the afternoon large groups of young people were heading seemingly unchecked through the park entrances with crates of alcohol. Many were clearly underage and under the influence.
Beyond a request by the Police to deflate a bouncy castle, the policing was relatively hands-off at the offset. Yet when more officers arrived in force to shut down the decks, clouds had gathered and several hours of drinking later, the response from too many in the heaving crowd, was to rain bottles down the hill. A policeman suffered a head injury as did several people scrambling for cover. A horseback-led retort alarmed those in the dip, and Police vans, motorbikes and a helicopter were all employed to control and disperse the crowd. Vans were vandalised and skirmishes continued. Hours later still, all that was left was a drizzly, rubbish-strewn park and from now on, a more intense Police focus on activities there.
The other legacy, of course, is the bill of £40,000 for the clean up. At least one GOW resident was canny enough to take the opportunity to reclaim some of the discarded cans for our can crusher recycling scheme.

UPDATE :Taxi driver dies after collision with Police van attending disorder

A GOW resident was at the park when the Police stopped the party. Send us your photos gowcommunity@gmail.com

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Winter Snow

GOW Community — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:39:03 +0000

Hopefully the last snow we’ll see this winter!

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The Park in Autumn 2010

GOW Community — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:25:42 +0000

A stroll around Kelvingrove Park one afternoon this week revealed these lovely photos of the autumn colours.

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Save Otago Lane Demo March

GOW Community — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:12:58 +0000

There was a great turn out for the Save Otago Lane protest march against the proposed Otago Lane Development on Saturday 16th October as you can see from the photos here.

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GOW Mosaic Official Unveiling

GOW Community — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:38:34 +0000

Tuesday 3rd August 2010: The unveiling of our new GOW Community mosaic that we made at the last mosaic workshop.

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Mosaic Workshop 2010

GOW Community — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:59:36 +0000

Jan returned for another workshop this July where we all pitched in together to make a large GOW community mosaic. The day started well and we got lots of help, but it soon turned rather wet.

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Gala 10 Photos

GOW Community — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:04:35 +0000

We had glorious sunshine at the Gibson Street Gala this year, drawing in fantastic numbers of people who all had a great time.

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Photos in the above set were donated by various contributors, see individual photos for credits.

And a video of highlights from the day:

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Gala 10 Preparations

GOW Community — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:41:59 +0000

Due to extraordinarily good weather we could start preparing for the Gibson Street Gala by erecting the gazebos and tents on the day before.

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Photos in the above set were donated by Margaret Smith

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