This access cover in Kelvingrove Park has long been a bit of a puzzle for me. Situated near the Park Drive entrance, you can just make out that it's a Fire Point (FP) cover made by Thomas Leadbetter and Co. Based on Gordon Street, with a works on Garnkirk Street, this Glasgow company was a plumbers, lead merchant and brass foundry, which, amongst other things made brass values for fire points (what we'd now call a fire hydrant) in the 1860s.
However, looking back at old maps as far back as the 1850s (when the park was first created) I cannot find any obvious reason why there was a fire point, or even water pipes, at this location in the park. However, it seems to been there for over 150 years, so presumably it had a logical purpose at some point in its history.
@thisismyglasgow Is it maybe the easiness of supply? Near the River Kelvin maybe so it was easy to get a reliable source of water? No idea though, really. The West End isn't my area.
@QuokkaMocha That does seem logical, but it's up quite a steep hill from the Kelvin so the supply is presumably coming from the top down rather than giong the other way.
@ZeugmaFr That would see sensible, but it's not really near any buildings or structures (and seems to have been) where a fire hydrant would be likely to be needed.
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