The construction of the M8 motorway in the late 1960s effectively severed Woodside from its southern neighbours Charing Cross and Garnethill.

Woodside has the first and grandest of Glasgow's Carnegie libraries, which were all designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by James Robert Rhind.

Public transport links include Kelvinbridge and St George's Cross Subway stations.

The Stockline Plastics factory explosion happened in Woodside on 11 May 2004.

Nine people were killed, including two company directors, and 33 injured, 15 seriously.