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East Centre and Calton Community Champions

St Andrews in the Square, Tuesday April 28, 2009

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DENNISTOUN is a district of the city situated north of the Clyde in the east end of the city. It is made up of a number of smaller districts - Milnbank to the north, 'The Drives' in the centre of the area and Bellgrove below Duke Street to the south. Although predominantly tenemental, the Victorian villas to the west (towards the city centre) illustrate the Glasgow Corporation's original plan for the whole area. Unable to attract the middle-class residents intended by its original developers, it established itself as a respectable working class area for families.
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