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5 unusual facts about Sighthill


Sighthill

Sighthill, Glasgow, a housing estate in the Springburn district of the city of Glasgow

Sighthill Stadium

Sighthill Stadium was a proposed stadium to be located in the Sighthill district of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sighthill, Edinburgh

Other notable film and television productions to be filmed in Sighthill include Quite Ugly One Morning starring James Nesbitt and an adaptation of the Christopher Brookmyre novel and Trouble Sleeping - a tale of a Palestinian refugee struggling to survive in the UK.

The most notable production to be filmed in Sighthill was the 1998 BBC Scotland television drama Looking After Jo Jo which featured Robert Carlyle in the title role and was filmed in and around North Sighthill and Niddrie.

Sighthill, Glasgow

The Sighthill Park hosts the first astronomically aligned stone circle built in Great Britain for 3,000 years, by the Glasgow Parks Department Astronomy Project guided by Duncan Lunan.


2002 Glasgow floods

A number of roads were also badly affected by flooding in Sighthill, Springburn as well as the main A82 and A8 roads.

SIMY

It grew out of two different youth and children's project that worked out of the local church in Townhead and St Rollox church in Sighthill, Glasgow.

That Sinking Feeling

Filming took place on location around the city of Glasgow; scenes featured locations such as Kelvingrove Park, Dennistoun, Springburn and Bishopbriggs railway stations, Cowcaddens, Sighthill and the Butney in Maryhill.

Townhead

If we use this description then it is bordered to the west by the area of Cowcaddens, to the north by Sighthill and the east by Royston and south by Merchant City.


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