Coloured postcard showing a view of the Kibble Palace in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, with the main glasshouse range beyond. Ink: [personal message] [address in Sheppey supplied]. The Glasgow Botanic Gardens were established in 1817 on Sauchiehall Street; William Jackson Hooker became Regius Professor of Botany there. The Gardens were moved to their current West End site in 1842. The Kibble Palace (originally built in the garden of James Kibble, by John Boucher and James Cousland), was presented to the Gardens by Kibble and moved there in 1871-3 as a supplementary glasshouse. The original glasshouses were replaced in the 1880s by a new range designed by Walter Macfarlane & Co., but the Gardens were unable to pay the costs, and in 1887 Glasgow Corporation took over their management