ABBEY SCOTLAND RECOGNISE THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING THE ESSENTIAL SPIRIT AND ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS OF THE BUILDING, WHILST CREATING AN EXCITING CONTEMPORARY CONVERSION.
REFLECTING THE QUALITY AND NATURE OF THE PAST, THE NEW BUILD APARTMENTS WILL BE TRADITIONALLY BUILT USING CONCRETE FLOORS WITH SOME OF THE CONVERSIONS BENEFITTING FROM HIGHER CEILINGS.
THE HISTORY OF KNIGHTSWOOD BUS DEPOT
1875 GREAT WESTERN ROAD IS A CATEGORY B LISTED LOCAL LANDMARK BUILDING, AND HOUSED THE OFFICE
AND WELFARE OF THE KNIGHTSWOOD BUS DEPOT. OPENED IN 1932, IT WAS HOME TO SOME 260 BUSES AND GENERATIONS OF BUS DRIVERS AND CLIPPIES WHO SERVED THE WEST END OF GLASGOW.
A NEW £5 MILLION BUS GARAGE FACILITY IN SCOTSTOUN HAS REPLACED KNIGHTSWOOD BUS GARAGE, ALLOWING ABBEY SCOTLAND TO RENOVATE AND REGENERATE THIS NOSTALGIC PIECE OF GLASGOW HISTORY.
