Tullis Street Memorial Gardens

Tullis Street Cemetery sits a few hundred yards from Bridgeton Cross.

It closed as a burial place in May 1870, and bodies were exhumed not long afterwards, and it then served as one of the few open spaces in the heavily built-up Bridgeton community of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

In the mid 1980s, via the Glasgow East Area Renewal Programme, it  underwent environmental improvements -including a new footpath, landscaping and new seating.

The only recent investment had been routine care and maintenance (grass-cutting and litter clean-ups.) Residents at a 2008 public meeting with our officials identified the area as needing urgent action. So we asked a firm of environmental architects to produce drawings of possibilities regarding layout, improved lighting and footpaths.

A three-day exhibition in early February 2009 enabled residents to voice their opinions -  and this positive feedback resulted in work beginning a few months later. 

The £315,000 improvements have made the area more attractive and secure - fences removed, old trees replaced, landscaping. new lighting and planting. In addition, repairs to the boundary walls and a wider entrance  incorporated four works of art.

The official opening was carried out, on schedule, on 22nd October 2009 by Councillor George Redmond and residents of the adjacent Carmichael Care Home in Landressy Place.