SECTION I: OLD MANSION HOUSES, BUILDINGS, STREETS
GREEN HOUSE
4) Green House, built
about 1703 by John Pettigrew, a landed proprietor in Shettleston during the early
part of the 18th century. It stood on the south side of Old Shettleston
Road between what is now Kenmore Street and Vesalius Street. It was
demolished in 1929.
5) Rear view - Green House. About 1903.
CARNTYNE HOUSE
Carntyne House stood in the middle of the
inter-war housing scheme of South Carntyne.
It was built by Robert Gray of Carntyne in 1802, the descendant
of an old Glasgow family who had owned Carntyne for about 300 years.
The Carntyne estate was well-known for its almost
inexhaustable seams of coal, which were wrought by the Gray family from
generation to generation from as early as 1600.
The Carntyne, or better known as "The Westmuir"
coalpits were for a long period one of the chief sources of fuel supply to
Glasgow, and the first steam engine in the West of Scotland for draining water
from coal mines was erected in Carntyne in 1768, and continued in use for 100
years.
In 1875 coal working was finally abandoned by the eighth
generation of the Gray family, mainly due to the increase in water levels
finally flooding the mine workings.
6) Carntyne House - 1878
GREENFIELD HOUSE
The Lands and Mansion House of Greenfield
were purchased by James McNair in 1759 from Isabel Luke, daughter of Robert
Luke, Goldsmith in Glasgow, then wife of James Bogle, Merchant in Glasgow.
Like their neighbours, the Grays of Carntyne, the McNairs
developed and worked coalpits on the estate for a long period.
From about 1900 until the First World War, the estate
became a Golf Course and latterly part of the South Carntyne and Greenfield
housing schemes.
McNair Street in Shettleston perpetuates the family name.
7) Greenfield House - 1878
TOLLCROSS PARK
The Tollcross estate was purchased by
James Dunlop, the eldest son of Colin Dunlop of Carmyle, about 1810. The
dunlop family , owners of the Clyde Iron Works, established in 1786, were one of
the families responsible for the industrial development of the district during
the early years of the 19th century. Tollcross House was built in 1848
from designs by David Bryce, an Edinburgh architect.
Tollcross estate was acquired by Glasgow Corporation in 1897,
and due to the landscaping work carried out by the previous owner, James Dunlop,
before his death, it became with the minimum of alteration, a public park for
the east end of the city.
Tollcross House at present stands unused and shuttered
against vandals, and requires considerable repair and renovation. Various
plans have been mooted for its retention and future use, with the most recent, a
proposal for its sale to a development company for renovation and conversion
into luxury flats.
8) Tollcross House about 1910
9) Music in the Park, about 1912
10) Tollcross Park. About 1930.
11) Photograph by courtesy of The Evening Times
For many years Tollcross House contained
a small children's museum and one of the more popular exhibits in the museum was
a glass case depicting the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
The photograph shows the Council Secretary, Mrs Marjorie
Cunningham, with the "Who Killed Cock Robin?" case, discovered with
the help of staff at Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum in a storage vault in
1982.
12) Section of Main Street, Shettleston, about 1900, with at 281 Main Street John B. Dean's public house. The same premises and the two shops to the left now form a much enlarged Dean's Bar at 675 Shettleston Road.
13) Part of the area known locally as "Hell's Square," about 1900, and it certainly looks a bit grim and muddy! It is now the area bounded by Denbeck Street/Darleith Street/Old Shettleston Road/Fernan Street.
14) Shettleston Cross - looking west - about 1898. Main Street (now Shettleston Road) and Firpark Street (now Darleith Street) corner. Thomas Waddell's public house on corner now the Cottage Bar.
The two photographs are interesting from a sartorial point of view as they show a clear distinction of class by the style of dress worn at this period, the hats and long-skirted costumes of the middle class women, and the working class women wearing aprons and shawls; the cloth caps of the working class men and the bowler hats and straw boaters of the middle class men.
15) Shettleston Cross - looking eastward along Main Street (now Shettleston Road) about 1906. The shop at the Main Street/Wellshot Road corner, occupied by Andrew Cochrane, Provision Merchant, a grocery firm with numerous branches throughout Glasgow for over fifty years, is now occupied by Calders Stores.
16) Firpark Street (now Darleith Street) - about 1989. The building on the right with the crow-stepped gables was the first police station in Shettleston, built about 1870. Are the bare-footed children on the left looking for apples on the trees in the garden over the wall?
17) McNair Street from Old Shettleston Road - about 1898. At this period McNair Street did not as now run northward from Shettleston Road to Old Shettleston Road, but in a diagonal route from the present McNair Street - Shettleston Road corner to Etive Street - Old Shettleston Road corner.
18) Old Drum Inn. 457 Main Street about 1885.
19) Wellshot Laundry - off Springfield Road (now Amulree Street) about 1922. The photograph shows the green field area between Shettleston and Tollcross prior to the building of the Sandyhills Housing Scheme which commenced about 1924. The buildings in the middle distance behind the laundry are the Springfield Shrink Works and the house on the left Springfield Farm now the site of Sandyhills Bowling Club.
20) Middle Quarter - Shettleston - 1904. From McNair Street looking east with the entry to Middle Quarter Farm at the end of the buildings on the left where the trees give the street a rural appearance.
21) Shettleston Road from Amulree Street corner - about 1957. Similar view to the above but 50 odd years on - with a "Coronation" tram No. 1250 on service 23 to Baillieston and with Scottish Omnibuses' double and single deckers proceeding westwards into Glasgow.
22) Middle Quarter Farm, Main Street - 1904. This section of Main Street (now Shettleston Road) from about McNair Street to Annick Street was known as Middle Quarter and is thus shown on the first Ordnance Survey Map of the area. It took its name from the farm of Middle Quarter which stood near the east corner of what is now Fenella Street and Shettleston Road. In 1904 the farm was tenanted by Mr John Anderson whose family had held the tenancy over several generations.
23) Bellview Cottage which stood in Main Street (now Shettleston Road) between Middle Quarter Farm and A. & D. Turner's at 605 Main Street. It later became 1233 Shettleston Road and for many years was the home of the local midwife, Mrs Deazeley.
24) Budhill Street (now part of Old Shettleston Road) about 1900. The photograph taken prior to the building of Eastbank Church shows the corner of Greenfield Street (later Earnside Street), the gable end of Shettleston Iron Works, the premises of J. & T. Boyd, textile machine makers, and under construction the tenement known as Eastbank Gardens. All these buildings are now demolished and the site of Eastbank Gardens landscaped into an ornamental garden area.
25) Eastmuir Street looking westward. About 1904. At this period the section of Shettleston Road from Fingask Street to Annick Street was known as Eastmuir Street. In the photograph James Stevenson's public house is now the courtyard of Lodge Eastmuir No.1126 and the adjacent tenement 1527-1541 Shettleston Road.
26) Multi-storey flats Balbeggie Street/Strowan Street under construction - 1968.
The multi-storey flats and pre-fabs were built on site of Sandyhills House. The lands of Sandyhills originally belonged to the Corbetts of Tollcross and in 1756 James Corbett transferred to William Brock and John Miller, merchants in Glasgow, his ‘‘Six shilling three penny Land of Old Extent in Sandiehills” for £260 sterling. In 1758 the land was purchased by Andrew Galloway, and his son John Galloway rented the land in 1781 to John McMillan, a in minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church who lived in and worked the farm on the estate to augment his stipend. He had built on the estate the first meeting house of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, a small plain building with a thatched roof. Public worship on an ordinary Sabbath commenced at Sandyhills about ten o’clock in the morning. and after a short respite between two and three o’clock, the congregation reassembled for the afternoon service which went on without remission to as late as ten o’clock at night. On sacramental occasions such as the Summer Communion, this small building proved quite inadequate to accommodate the crowds that flocked to "the preachings.” The tent - a moveable wooden pulpit - was erected in an adjoining field and from it the ministers preached to a congregation disposed on the slopes running up to Sandyhills Road. This area was long known locally as “The Preaching Braes”.
In 1790 the congregation purchased a new site in Calton and the old meeting house in Sandyhills was closed, hut it was probably demolished along with the old farm, steading when Sandyhills House was built in 1853.
