SECTION I - OLD STREETS AND HOUSES
16) Shettleston Cross, looking west about 1910. The cattle proceeding along the then Main Street reflect the rural nature of the Shettleston area at this period. Cattle on the hoof were driven to and from Glasgow Market at Bellgrove until the late thirties, causing on occasion some excitement when the odd rogue steer bolted up a side street or through a close-mouth to play havoc with washing hanging out in the back-court.
17) Shettleston Sabbath School Association Hall Hill Street (Edrom Street) about 1898. This hall built in 1881 was the first building erected in Scotland exclusively for Sabbath School purposes. The hall over the years was also used by the community as a venue for public meetings, band concerts, wedding receptions, flower shows, Masonic meetings, and remained in use for such purposes until demolished in the 1970s.
18) Firpark Street (Darleith Street) looking southwards towards Shettleston Cross about - 1900.
19) Old Shettleston Schoolhouse Gray Street (Denbeck Street) about 1898.
The Old Statistical Account records the existence of a parish school in Shettleston in 1790. In 1873 the Shettleston Parish Church Session transferred the parish school to the Shettleston School Board. A few years later the School Board built a new school on the land to the north of the old Schoolhouse, as Shettleston Public School. Over the years it became known locally as McHaffies School after James McHaffie who was headmaster from 1874 until 1915.
20) Old Shettleston Road at Green Street (Dugraig Street) looking west about 1898. The illustrations on this page depict some of the thatched roof cottages which at the turn of the century still made up a fair proportion of the housing stock in Shettleston. As the top illustration shows, they were slowly being replaced by large tenement buildings.
21) Thatched cottages - Old Shettleston Road about 1898. A closer view of the cottages in the above view that stood on the north side of Old Shettleston Road.
22) Old Shettleston Road about 1898. A continuation of the above two views showing old cottages and other houses on both sides of Old Shettleston Road running westwards towards Shettleston Public School.
23) Cottages - Old Shettleston Road about 1898. Old cottages which stood on the north side of Old Shettleston Road just west of what in now the Fernan Street/ Old Shettleston Road corner. See also photograph 110.
24) Westbank Terrace, Pettigrew Street about 1914.
Many terraces such as the above and tenemental blocks had at this period individual names, a custom which seems to have been revived recently in the naming of many of the old and converted properties in the city.
In this view the building on the right is the Shettleston Co-operative Society Halls built in 1912 and now due to be renovated during 1988 by the Shettleston Housing Association.
25) Shettleston House about 1900. Shettleston House, as the former Mansion of Shettleston, had a door lintel on which was carved the date 1793. It was probably built by the McNair family who from 1759 were the proprietors of the adjoining estate of Greenfield and who developed and worked the coalpits on both estates over several generations. The house was situated on the north side of Old Shettleston Road almost opposite the present Etive Street. It was demolished during the construction and expansion of this area by the North British Bottleworks.
26) Budhill Street looking west about 1900. The eastern end of Old Shettleston Road from Station Road (Annick Street) to Greenfield Street (Earnside Street) was at this period know as Budhill Street. The large tenement on the right was known as Cyprus Place.
27) Station Road Corner about 1905. The house and shop which stood at the corner of Station Road (Annick Street) and the east end of Main Street (Shettleston Road). It was demolished in the early thirties to allow for the widening of Shettleston Road.
28) Sandyhills Railway Bridge about 1908. This bridge over the now disused Shettleston to Hamilton railway line was from 1912-75 the eastern boundary of Glasgow and in crossing the bridge one moved from Glasgow into Lanarkshire.
29) Budhill Avenue about 1910.
Budhill took its name from a farm that stood in the factory area between Annick Street and Shettleston Station and Springboig from a farm that stood in what is now Springboig Avenue.
The coming of the railway through this area in 1871 resulted in a minor building boom with the erection of several villas and Watson Terrace in Hallhill Road, Gordon Terrace and Huntly Terrace in Springboig Road and at a later date a group of tenement buildings north of Shettleston Station.
Until 1912 Budhill and Springboig were considered part of Shettleston, but this altered to some extent when Shettleston was absorbed by Glasgow and Budhill and Springboig remained in Lanarkshire, the two communities having services such as roads, housing, cleansing and education provided by two different local authorities.
30) Springboig, Shettleston about 1910. With what is now part of Hamilton Road proceeding eastwards to the junction of Gartocher Road and Springboig Road. The open field on the left became in the mid twenties the site for Springboig housing scheme.
31) Albany Quadrant, looking northward along Albany Avenue about 1912.
In 1910 Larchgrove House was owned by John Adam, J.P., the representative for North Shettleston on Lanarkshire County Council. The house was supposed to have been built about 1700 and was purchased by John Adams father in 1853 and extensively modernised by both father and son.
Larchgrove Estate was a popular venue used by local institutions for such events as Sunday School Trips, Garden Fetes and Cattle Shows. The estate grounds for a period formed part of Larchgrove Assessment Centre.
32) Larchgrove House, Springboig about 1910.
33) Barlanark House from the west about 1897.
The landward part of Shettleston Parish was the location for several large farms and a few small estates such as Barlanark House built in 1822 by Lawrence Hill, LL.D.
The Hill family had both personal and business connections with Glasgow for close on 500 years. On the death of Lawrence Hill the estate passed to his son, Dr William Hill, who like his father was a lawyer. Both father and son received for their literary and antiquarian attainments the honorary degree of LL.D. from Glasgow University. After the death of Dr William Hill in 1912 the house and estate was occupied by various tenants and in the late thirties lay unoccupied for a number of years.
When about 1950 the estate became the site of the Barlanark housing scheme, there were tentative plans to use the house as a local community centre, but such plans were thwarted by the house being set on fire and it had to be demolished.
34) Barlanark House from the south about 1897.
35) Barlanark House the Drawing Room 1897.
Elaborate arrangements were made by Dr William Hill for the marriage of his niece as recorded in this newspaper report of the time. THe arrangements included the erection of two marquees in the estate grounds, two railway carriages to be added to a train to convey the guests from Queen Street Station to Shettleston and a number of horse-drawn carriages hired to convey them from the station to Barlanark House.
36) Newspaper Report on Wedding at Barlanark 1901.
37) Knockings Cottage about 1897.
Old maps (see end papers) show the existence of a small hamlet called Knockens (later spelt Knockings situated on the old road, now long disappeared, which led from Glasgow to Airdrie. The hamlet was eventually located within Barlanark estate and by 1897 only this one cottage had survived.
38) Kerrera Place, Barlanark 1954.
Most of the landward area of the Shettleston Parish became from 1950 onwards the site of various housing schemes; such as Barlanark, Ruchazie, Garthamlock and Easterhouse. The houses in Kerrera Place shown here in 1954 were built on the site of old Barlanark House.
Built in 1880 by the Lamberton family, owners of Lamberton Engineering Works, Caotbridge. When built, a natural location for a country house, some distance from the factory smoke, yet near enough to travel to business by horse carriage to Easterhouse Station and thence by train to Coatbridge.
It was one of the few old mansion houses of the parish which has survived to the present day. It stands in Blairtummock Park established in 1960 and is used by the City of Glasgow Parks and Recreation Dept. as its administration headquarters for the north-east area of the city.
39) Blairtummock House 1987.
