Byres Road
Bustling West End street of cafés, pubs and student life, with an artist-painted church and subway station.
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This guide to Byres Road in Glasgow follows Alasdair Gray, the novelist and painter who kept turning this street into art, from a church ceiling at its north end to the tiled foyer of Hillhead subway station. It starts with a sky that seems to have its months in the wrong places. Along the way you meet his helpers, the critic who watched him paint a restaurant's regulars, and the subway riders he set in ceramic. Best heard on the pavement outside Hillhead station.
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