Calton Burial Ground
Responding to a suggestion by local residents, we invested £230,000 to upgrade the 200-year-old former Weavers Cemetery, on Abercromby Street. After overwhelming community support to change the name, it is now called the Calton Burial Ground.
Over 10 weeks in mid-2010, contractors provided new and improved landscaping, upgraded footpaths, repaired boundary walls. built new ones, as well as installing new lighting and replacement gates.
Thirty-five plaques have been erected to tell the story of some of those laid to rest within the walled area as well as providing a history of the role Calton played in Glasgow's growth during the 18th and 19th centuries. A number of the plaques have been placed within the new footpath, while others have been located on a new wall on its eastern boundary.
The site is renowned as the final resting place of John Page, Alexander Millar and James Ainsley, three of the six men who died in September 1787 when soldiers fired-upon a group of Weavers taking part in a demonstration in what history records as Scotland’s first major industrial dispute.
The official opening was carried out on 16 November 2010 by Frank McAveety the then MSP for the Glasgow Shettleston constituency in which the Calton Burial Ground is located.