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| james73 |
Flats plan for first Boys’ Brigade hallFlats plan for first Boys’ Brigade hall (Evening Times)
THE birthplace of the Boys' Brigade, the world's first uniformed youth movement, is to be transformed into town houses. The Woodside Halls in Glasgow's West End, where Sir William Alexander Smith founded the movement 125 years ago, will be converted into three luxury properties if planning permission is granted, as expected, today. The mid-19th century building was originally the Free Church Mission Hall but has not been in church use since 1975. The Boys' Brigade, which has a global membership of 500,000, had stopped using the facility earlier. In more recent years it has been a well-known music venue known as The Woodside Social. But noise complaints from neighbours led to its opening hours being curbed and an unsuccessful bid by the owners to turn the halls into a needle exchange for drug users. The Gothic-design hall is also used as office space. Although the structure of the building remains intact, the only remaining connection with the Boys' Brigade is a commemorative plaque which, according to the secretary of the historic Glasgow Battalion, Eric Woodburn, still attracts visitors from across the world. James H |
| Alex Glass |
There is a plaque on the outside wall which will be retained.
Unfortunately I understand that there isn't much remaining of the old interior. It may have been worth a visit inside 
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| Stuball |
Was it not a dump of a social club until recently? |
| Alex Glass |
That is correct as far as I was told Stu.
They didn't leave much of the original interior. |