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streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject:

291 Greenhead St. Unless the photo is unintentionally distorted, that wall is bulging rather badly. Maybe these fine tenements had to come down, but what I can’t understand is why the site is still vacant, with its pleasant outlook across the river to Richmond Park. It was originally known as Clydeview Terrace, before becoming part of Greenhead St.

West end of Monteith Row from Greendyke St. Like Abbotsford Place south of the river, and built around the same time, 1820-30, Monteith Row was a development aimed at professional people, and for several decades it was a desirable address, with many doctors taking residence. When a main road leading east from the cross was being laid out the obvious line would have taken it along Monteith Row to Bridgeton, but pressure from the residents led to it being diverted to Great Hamilton St (London Rd), and the resulting chicane is still there. January 1976

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject:

14 Monteith Row, the Monteith Hotel (‘for Tradesmen‘). This is the last remaining fragment of the Row. January 1976

Corner of Monteith Place and Monteith Row. May 1976

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject:

15 Monteith Row. January 1976

15 Monteith Row. There is a socket at the top of the iron arch which would once have held a lantern. January 1976

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject:

25-27 Monteith Row, east of Morris Place. January 1974

London Rd, south side east of Greendyke St, opposite St Alphonsus’ RC Church. St James’s School (the name is on the panel above the roofline) and St James’s Burgh Church (date-stone 1816). It is said that the church was built by a Methodist congregation who soon found themselves financially embarrassed and had to sell the building to the Town Council in 1820. August 1973

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject:

Corner of Bain St and London Rd. Gillespie U F Church. November 1973

Foot of Claythorn St from the corner of Bankier St, with the dome of the People’s Palace beyond Morris Place. December 1975

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject:

Corner of Claythorn St and Moncur St. January 1974

London Rd, north side east of Claythorn St. St Luke’s U F Church. January 1974

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject:

London Rd, north side west of Green St. Calton Bar about to get a new fascia. July 1973

London Rd, north side west of Green St. The original Calton Bar, in a building thought to date from 1767 - it is certainly older than most. I wonder if the top floor windows were originally half-dormers, lost in a re-roofing. January 1974

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject:

Corner of Green St and London Rd. One of the few surviving old buildings among these shots of London Rd. The Nationalist is now the Calton Bar. The Jack House, funnily enough, sold jacks - trolley, bottle, and ratchet jacks, and hydraulic equipment, compressors and air tools. January 1974

Green St, west side near London Rd. A interesting and unusual design of tenement, with the stairwell open to the elements. Did it double as a drying area? Zion Hall next to it. July 1973

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject:

London Rd, south side east of Binnie Place, opposite Green St. A former Congregational Church. May 1974

Arcadia St, west side north of London Rd. Two model tenements of c1900, with part of the Greenhead Engine Works (c1860) on the right. All demolished around 1990. July 1973