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Alex Glass · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject:

Some photos of outside Silverburn

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neilmc · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject:

Before Silverburn there was the Pollok Centre, and before the Pollok Centre there was this:-

As a guide, the main entrance to the Pollok Centre is roughly where 12 Bridgend Road is shown on the map, and the thoroughfare running through the Centre followed the route of Dykefoot Drive. Both those roads, plus Lawside Drive, Linbank & Nerston Avenues, and the housing built on them, disappeared with the building of the Centre, along with a big chunk of housing on the South East side of Peat Road, Househillmuir Road and Crescent, and Brock Road.

All the housing on Cowglen Road, as well as that on Fairhill Avenue (not shown on map), and that fronting Barrhead Road, also disappeared. Note how Cowglen Road used to run off the Peat Road roundabout; it was re-routed to adjoin Peat Road exactly where the semi-circular inshot at 51 to 57 Peat Road used to be.

Cowglen Place is also gone; the two-storey tenements there were identical to those on Haughburn Terrace (still exists) on the opposite side of the roundabout. Cowglen Terrace was actually a row of shops with flats above built in the same style as the aforementioned, and the shops I remember included Templetons/Galbraiths (where my mother worked), and the legendary Mackie's, a newsagent-cum-general store.

The inevitable question: does anyone have any photos of the area from that time?

Fjord · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject:

Good info and that map is excellent more please

It's not an area I know well but here's a photograph of the area in the mid 1960's which illustrates how much
it's changed over the past 40 years. Note Cowglen hospital at the top of the photo

neilmc · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

Wow, great photo Fjord, but I think it may be a wee bit earlier than mid-1960s as my old school, Craigbank was opened in 1965, and there's no evidence of building work even starting on it! Same goes for the National Savings Bank building, although that was later still.

Note the St. Andrew's ambulance depot in front of the hospital, alongside what looks like the old army barracks. Bellarmine RC Secondary (now gone) seemed much smaller then - did they build it in phases?.

I'm afraid I don't have any other bits of map like the one above, but I'll dig out my old Geographia (circa 1975) when I get a chance, for comparison.

scallopboy · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject:

Nice research all concerned

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neilmc · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject:

As promised, here's how the area around Silverburn looked circa 1975, from my well-worn Geographia:-

Alex Glass · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject:

Nice one Neil.

There is a website GREATER POLLOK HERITAGE

They have some photos of the area.
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neilmc · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject:

Thanks Alex: I've added that site to my bookmarks, though I recognise some of the photos from the Greater Pollok book!

Alex Glass · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject:

Drew Miller is fourbytwo from the other place.

Peter Savage is the editor of the Pollok Post.

Together with some others who are not too happy about how the Pollok Kist has worked they have decided to start their own heritage group.

One problem with the site is that there is no details of how you can get involved. If you want to contact them you leave a message on what looks like a forum.

It is a good idea and hopefully they will develop it over the next few months although I am not sure if Drew is still active within the group as he is studying at the moment.

I have got more old photos of housing within the area. I am sure they will interest you. They are from Rosehill. I am meeting with one of the other Housing Managers on Monday to see what photos he has of the Polok area.

I am working through a bundle scanning them. I hope to work on a project to document the changes in housnig within the Greater Pollok area over the last 20 years.
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