ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The
publication in December 1986 by the Sandyhills East Community Council of a
pictorial history entitled “Shettleston From Old and New Photographs”
created a considerable interest in the past history of Shettleston.
Due to this
awakened interest in the history of Shettleston I became the recipient of a
considerable quantity of hitherto unpublished photographs relating to
Shettleston scenes and Shettleston people. So great was the quantity of
unsolicited material received that for a time the community council were at a
loss as how to make the best possible use of it. After some deliberation it was
eventually decided to use this material as the nucleus of a second pictorial
history of the Shettleston area.
Due tribute
must be made to an unknown photographer who in the early years of this century
took a series of photographs of the parish of Shettleston at that period.
Fortunately a goodly number of the photographs taken at that time have survived,
preserved in three separate albums. My thanks are due to the present owners of
the albums, Mr K. McLeod, Mrs S. McFarlane and the Shettleston Housing
Association for permission to use a selection from each of the albums, thus
providing views of Shettleston some eighty years or so ago.
The
photographs used in the final selection varied in size, content and quantity,
and the standard of reproduction much depends on the condition of the originals,
with some selections made more on the basis of historical content than artistic
merit.
I record my
thanks to the community council project committee for their encouragement and
assistance.
The East
End Management Committee are due grateful thanks for their financial assistance
with this publication
I express
my grateful thanks to Mr J.A. Fisher and the staff of the Glasgow Room, Mitchell
Library, to Mr A.M. Jackson and the staff of Strathclyde Regional Archives, and
to Mr E.M. Pierce and the staff of the Royal Faculty of Procurators’ Library
for all their most helpful assistance with research.
Mrs M. Shaw
is thanked for typing services and Mrs E. Bradley for editing assistance.
My wife,
Isabel, is thanked for coping with a home littered for months with books, files,
papers and photographs, and my sons, Tom and Finlay, are also due thanks for
driving me about to many out of the way places in the search for an interesting
photograph or other material.
I record my
sincere thanks to all the above, and to others not named individually who
provided information or in some small way have assisted in the compiling of this
collection of photographs which depicts Shettleston at different times over the
past hundred years or so and reflects some of the social and environmental
changes which, in just over a hundred years, turned the rural parish of
Shettleston into the urban Glasgow suburb which it is today.
Thomas
M. Waugh, FSA Scot.
1638 Shettleston Road,
Glasgow, G32 9AN.
June,
1988.
