MORE than 50 Orange walks will take place in Glasgow on Saturday, as the Orange Order celebrates its biggest event of the year.
The County Grand Lodge of Glasgow is holding its annual Boyne celebration on July 5, with more than three and a half thousand lodge and band members expected on the streets.
Many more are anticipated to follow alongside as events take place all over the city, culminating at a rally in Glasgow Green.
Smaller walks will take place in the north, south, east and west of Glasgow, heading towards the city centre, merging at various points to form one main group heading into Glasgow Green.
The parades will start as early as 8.25am, as individual lodges and bands start their day off outside Orange halls in their area.
Parades are due to start around the city, including Springburn, Maryhill, Whiteinch, Dalmarnock, Drumchapel and Ibrox.
They will join with others as the walk gets bigger the closer to the city centre it gets.
The North Group, with around 750 taking part, will meet at Corn Street, Cowcaddens, at 10.30, before heading up Garscube Road, down St. George’s Road, to Charing Cross, and up Sauchiehall Street, Blythswood Street, Blythswood Square, down West George Street and merge with main parade in Hope Street.
The South Group, with 1500, will meet at Centre Street, at 11.20am for a walk along Commerce Street and across King George V Bridge into Oswald Street and Hope Street.
The East Group will meet at Brook Street at 10.10 am with more than 900 people and go along London Road, Bain Street, Gallowgate, Moir Street to Glasgow Cross turn up High Street, George Street, Montrose Street, Cochrane Street, and merge behind the Colour Party and proceed to Glasgow Green.
West Group with around 530 participants will meet at Kelvin Way at 10.30 and go along Sauchiehall Street, to Blythswood Street, Blythswood Square before turning down West George Street to merge with the others at Hope Street.
Once all four walks have joined as one in Hope Street at 11am, the march will go down West George Street, Nelson Mandela Place, West George Street, along George Square North, George Street, before turning down High Street through Glasgow Cross and into Saltmarket and into Glasgow Green via the McLennan Arch.
The Orange walkers will all make a return journey back to their original meeting points before splitting again and going back to their Orange halls in their communities in the early evening.
