Boundaries
In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary on the south-east side of Cumbernauld Road, where that road is intersected by the east side of the Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Lines), thence northward to the centre line of Cumbernauld Road, thence south-westward and westward along the centre line of Cumbernauld Road and Alexandra Parade to the centre line of Castle Street, thence northward along the centre line of Castle Street and Springburn Road to the centre line of Fountainwell Road, thence north-westward along the centre line of Fountainwell Road to the centre line of the North British Railway (Edinburgh and Glasgow Line), thence northward along the centre line of the said North British Railway to a Point on the municipal boundary about 327 yards north of the centre of Hawthorn Street, where the said North British Railway intersects that street, thence northward, eastward, southward, eastward, southward, westward, south-eastward and southwestward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement."
Between 1997 and its abolition in 2005, the constituency was the following Glasgow City Council local government wards - Springburn, Cowlairs, Wallacewell, Milnbank, Dennistoun, Royston, Carntyne, Robroyston, Gartcraig, and part of the Keppochhill ward (polling district SP79 around Springburn Public Halls, Keppochhill Road, and Crichton Street). This represented an eastwards move, taking in the Carntyne, and Gartcraig wards, which transferred from the abolished Glasgow Provan constituency. Milton, Ashfield and other parts of the Keppochhill ward moved west into the Glasgow Maryhill constituency.
Read more about this topic: Glasgow Springburn (UK Parliament Constituency)
Famous quotes containing the word boundaries:
“We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will’s impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)