Keir Street, named for the patrimonial estate of the Stirlings, who were the successors of the Maxwells of Pollok. Alex Glass. View images from this item (7) Information. It was the western boundary of this gentleman's property, which extended eastward to Stockwell Street, and the rope walk, which was in ​operation till well on in last century, reached the entire length, crossing Jamaica Street in an overhead gallery. Bridgeton is of yesterday, no building or house in it being yet 200 years old. If you fancy staying right in the heart of the city then West George Street is a … Stirling Road was made as an approach to the Canal by William Stirling &, Son, who were extensive merchants and manufacturers in the city. A year or two since, a correspondent in one of the daily papers, who claimed to be the ... Glasgow has an impressive scientific and industrial heritage which we continue to build on today. In the commissariot of Govan John Rowand or Rowane is mentioned as proprietor of Merrielands in l680. Ure Place, which forms three sides of a square at the north-east corner of Montrose Street, was named for John Ure, who was a merchant in Gallowgate Street early in last century. Their father was Thomas Hutcheson of Lambhill. "Senex" mentions that he saw a Highland woman escorted to Cranstonhill. Weaver Street formed part of the lands belonging to the Incorporation of Weavers. Campaigners wanting to remove Glasgow street names linked to the slave trade should instead focus on modern slavery, writes Shan Saba. Centre Street alone excepted, the first house in which was built by Thomas Craigie in 1790. The name comes from Saint Thanew, whose cell was on the site of the Tron Church in Trongate Street; and, despite statements to the contrary, there is no proof of any building for religious purposes having occupied the square previous to that of 1780. Govan. The ground upon which it is formed belonged to John Maxwell of Fingalton, from whom it was bought by Stephen Maxwell of Morriston, who was an extensive coppersmith. The building is still in existence, and it was in it that Dr. Johnson, on his return from his Highland tour, rejoiced to find himself sitting once more in front of a coal fire. Alston Street, now swallowed up in Central Railway Station, was named for John Alston, grandson of Mr. Miller of Westerton, the maker of Miller Street. Portland Street, opened 1802, was named in honour of the Duke of Portland, then a leading Cabinet Minister. This anghcising of Scotch words by ignorant and conceited persons is very common, and leads to frequent error. His father was Ewen ap Urien, a prince of Strath-Clyde; his mother was Thenaw, a ​daughter of Loth, King of Northumbria. Ann Street (Bridgeton), after a daughter of John Walkinshaw of Barrowfield, of which estate this formed a part. Miller Street, opened 1760 by Mr. Miller of Westerton, whose property it was carried through. Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, maps, List of Streets, Street View, Geographic.org ... Tweet: List of Streets in Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, Google Maps and Street View Photos. Macfarlane Street, opened 1815, is named for Alexander Macfarlane of Jamaica, who founded the observatory which formerly stood on the summit of the Dowhill, which is now occupied by a railway company. He died about 1797. ​Baltic Street was formed on ground acquired by The Baltic Jute Works Co., who built extensive factories here. Mair Street (Plantation), after John Mair, a former proprietor of this estate. Canning Street (Calton) is named for the Honourable George Canning, who died in 1827, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Albany Street (Bridgeton), named for Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, who was the daughter of Prince Charlie. It was at first known as Carntyne Road, and is the longest street in any city in the United Kingdom, which came out in the following way:—In the course of a controversy in a weekly periodical on this question, a prize being offered to the person who solved the matter, Oxford Street, London, was given and accepted as the longest; but our respected townsman Mr. M. Gemmel, the well-known property agent, had reason from his own knowledge to be dissatisfied with the award, ​and he had the street measured, it turning out to be, as he expected, considerably longer than Oxford Street. Thomson Street (off Dake Street), after Bailie John Thomson of Annfield Pottery. There was a close or entry in the locality that was known as Charley's Close, and it latterly had an unenviable notoriety from being the haunt or gathering-place of the roughs of Calton and Bridgeton. Instantly his heels were in the air; hat, cane, and spectacles—where, oh, where! As well as the merchants of the Empire, many Glasgow streets from this era were named after businessmen, entrepreneurs and industrialists. the place was of little account until Butherglen Bridge was built in 1775. This thoroughfare has been swallowed up in extending the College Railway Station. He built a new mansion-house and expended about £6000 on a property the original cost of which was £1350. A Mr. Bagnal had a pottery here, who made a speciality in the manufacture of tureens; hence the name. 8d. He died about 601, and for more than five centuries after that date Glasgow has no authentic records. The family are now represented by Lord Newlands. Cathedral Street, opened 1840, previous to which date there was a narrow road called Potter-row Lone a short distance south of the present street, which ran in the same direction, but the operations of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Co. swept it away and altered the locality. Camlachie Burn is the boundary between Bridgeton and Calton, and this so-called Cross, being on the west side of the burn, is therefore in Calton. ​Albion Street, opened in 1808. On the decay of the cotton trade he merged into ​that of iron, by starting the Anderston Foundry; and the family are now represented by the Houldsworths of Coltness, which estate they purchased in 1836. The first Unitarian Chapel in the city was in this street, on the site now occupied by the office of the Weekly Mail, the entrance to the church being by a stair in front. Being This family were the maternal ancestors of Robert The first peer of the family, Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochow, founded the Collegiate Church at Kilmun in the year 1442, and he died eleven years thereafter, and was buried in the church which he had set up From that time Kilmun became the burial-place of the Argyle family, and among the chiefs whose bones repose here may be mentioned that singularly unhappy nobleman, Archibald, first Marquis of Argyle. Partick, of old Perdyec, from the Gaelic aper dhu ec, meaning the place at the confluence or mouth of the dark river. This was done by turfing over the erection. A large portion of these lands was granted to the Government in 1795 as a site for an infantry barracks, for which purpose they were utilised for well-nigh a century, but the locality becoming unsuitable, new quarters were erected in the north-west portion of the city. Poor working-class immigrants, most of them from Ireland or the Highlands, were crammed into the squalid, crowded central area of City Parish, converted for quick cash from the … Lancefield Street was formed on the lands of this name, which were acquired early in the last century by David Napier, the father of iron shipbuilding and marine engineering on the Clyde. The fish and ring are emblematic of a miracle, by which he restored to Langueth, the wife of King Ridderch of Strathclyde, a love token she had lost; and the bell represents that which he brought from Rome. This street had previously been known as the Beggars' Bow. Grahamston, a district in Anderston, on the north side of Argyle Street, was named for John Graham of Dougalston, who died in 1749. It was at that time nine or ten feet above its present level, and culminated in a hillock about fifteen feet high near its eastern extremity, where stood the toll-house. Opened in 1780, Buchanan Street took its name from Andrew Buchanan, one of the city’s most successful tobacco merchants. He had also a shop in King Street ​(City) which met the same fate. situated on the ridge of a hill, with a southern exposure, which guaranteed a dry site for dwellings, and with the gardens of the Deanery spread out on the slope below, it certainly was the most for the Falkirk Burghs in 1874, was in his youthful days a clerk in this factory when it was being run by Mr. White. It was formerly the western boundary of Cathedral Square, being a continuation of High Street till it joined Castle Street. Dempster Street, opened 1792, is only a fragment of its oiiginal size, it having originally extended over a great part of what is now Love Loan. The public threw it down, only to be rebuilt, this time surmounted with a cheveaux de frise and a watch-tower. In regard to personal names connected with trades, from which they accrued, there are at present in the city, one Mason, a builder; Hair, a barber; Baxter, a baker; Clouts, a tailor; Soutar, a bootmaker; and Finnie, a fishmonger. It cut through a densely-populated locality. He died at Helensburgh, 30th September, 1824. Kingston Dock, authorised by Parliamentary Acts of 1840-46, was not completed till 1867. Walkinshaw Street, named for John Walkinshaw of Barrowfield. It had previously been called King Street. 4d. Sanitary affairs were conducted in rather a primitive fashion in Bridgeton up till 1830, when the contractor for cleansing was bound to sweep the streets only six times during the year, for which he got the handsome remuneration of £3 10s. Duke Street, opened 1794, is named for the Duke of Montrose, whose lodging overlooked it. A bit of a tongue twister for non-Scots, Sauchiehall Street is actually a corruption of the Scots word ‘sauchiehaugh’. This suburb comprises several properties acquired iit different times, the first purchase being Golfhill by James Dennistoun, who bought it from the trustees of Jonathan Anderson in 1814. Archibald, first Duke of Argyle, died under rather peculiar circumstances in England on 28th September, 1703. Saint Rollox is a corruption of Saint Roche. Campbell of Blythswood's estate, near Renfrew, was called Renfield, and on his residential property he bestowed the name of his much more valuable Glasgow holding; but to make amends he named two of his new streets in the city Renfield and Renfrew respectively. In the Burgh Records, under date of 22nd May 1647, the Dean of Guild is ordained to visit Saint Rollok's Kirkyard, and to set up the "merche stanes.". This was a pure invention. Phœnix Park is formed on the site of the Phœnix Foundry, which was carried on for many years by Thomas Edington & Sons. Sauchiehall Street derives its name from being formed on a haugh or meadow where saugh trees grew. It and the garden were acquired in 1850 for an Eye Infirmary, at the price of £2800. George Street, east from George Square, was opened in 1792, and is named for King George the Third, its extension westward being called West George Street. Woodrow does not speak favourably of him, saying his talents were much over-rated. It had previously been known as Cotton Street, from the fact that it was almost entirely taken up with the offices of cotton brokers, spinners, and yarn agents. It is about six miles from the city. This thoroughfare comes next to the Drygate in point of age, and it must have been a place of importance in the olden time, for at its eastern end, at the intersection of High Street and Drygate Street, stood the Cross of the town; in proof of which it is recorded in the protocols of the city that on 11th October 1575 James Rankin is "fund in the wrang and amerciament of the Court for the taking down at his ain hand of ane great croce in Rattonraw pertaining to the town, and therefore he is becoming in the Provost and Bailies will and dwme given thereupon." The roof of the portico of Saint Andrew's Church, which stands in the centre, contains the first example in Scotland of what is known in architecture as the flat arch, and it was looked upon as a marvel at the time. The true derivation is from cunyie or cunnyng, a corner. Corunna Street, commemorative of Sir John Moore's victory over the French on 16th January, 1809. This is evidently manufactured, as "mon gah " is pure Norse. At that time it was in great part a deep hollow or ravine thickly studded with saiigh trees and the lower part filled with a dense undergrowth, and towards nightfall it had rather a weird appearance, police in this locality being unknown at this period. From the last it was acquired by purchase early in last century by the late James Davidson; but he, having built a residence at Wemyss Bay, resided mostly there, and Ruchill House was long tenanted by the late J. H. Young, a well-known manufacturer in the city. His mansion, which fronts the Green in Greenhead Street, is now occupied as the Buchanan Institute. Kentigern, his first title, means Lord-in-Chief. Extensions an… They did not succeed as a company concern, and were taken over by the Corporation in 1892 at a cost of £59,531. But anterior to the annihilation of all landmarks in the locality by the operations of the G. & S.-W. Railway Co., there was on the east side of Saint Enoch Lane, about midway between Argyle Street and Howard Street, a very old building of three storeys, with crow-stepped gables and small square windows, which apparently had never been glazed; but all of them on the street and first flat had at some time been fitted with iron bars. Anderston, the village of, was formed on the eastern portion of the estate of Mr. Anderson of Stobcross. It had previously been known as Greyfriar's Wynd, the friars having had a monastery here under a charter granted to them by King James the Third in 1479. But the river coming down in high flood with broken ice during the ensuing winter destroyed the greater part of the structure, on seeing which the proprietor made only half-hearted efforts at repair. It afterwards became the property of the Incorporation of Tailors. Record indeed! Windmill Croft. He was the head of two great Virginia tobacco houses, Buchanan, Hastie & Co and Andrew Buchanan & Co. Mount Florida was at first called Mount Floiidon. James Campbell, the younger brother of Colin Campbell, the fifth of Blythswood, was left the estate of Mains by his mother's father, and he then assumed the name of Douglas. Cochrane Street, opened 1787, named for Andrew Cochrane, who was Provost in 1760. ​Goosedubbs Street originally extended from Stockwell Street to the Old Wynd, but railway extension has curtailed it. His head was stuck on the Tolbooth on the very pinnacle where the head of his heroic adversary the great Marquis of Montrose had been exposed for ten long years. The eastern end of this street, from Buchanan Street to West Nile Street, was previously called Cathcart Street. Clyde (River), from the Gaelic word clith, meaning strong. Shuttle Street was formed on the lands of Shuttlefield. Time toned him down, and Bell Street (City), opened 1710, and named for Sir John Bell, who was Provost in 1680. the patron saint of Glasgow, was also called Saint Kentigern. After Mr. Allan's flight the lands of Newhall were divided and sold. He expended a large sum of money in forming it, having got a special Act of Parliament to enable him to construct the viaduct at its western ​extremity to carry it over Bishop Street into St. Vincent Street; but the scheme was a little too premature, as it is only now taking shape to rank as a leading thoroughfare. The name is evidently purely Celtic, and its true meaning will have to be sought for in a Gaelic dictionary. The village, however, was not in existence in her time, and the lands went under that name long anterior to the Battle of Langside. He was senior partner of William Collins, Sons & Co., the well-known publishing firm. Mr. Allan's daughters, the spinsters, resided for many years after their father's decease in a building which had originally been intended as offices for the mansion, while a widowed According to local legend, Glasgow’s Drury Street got its name thanks to the Drury Lane Theatre in London. The road was known as Victoria Street for some time but this name was never popular with the public (especially as there were four other Victoria Streets elsewhere in Glasgow) so it was changed back to Byres Road in the 1890s. In this he was boycotted, as the weavers declined to work to him, even at increased rates. A82 road; A. Argyle Street, Glasgow; Ashton Lane; B. Broomielaw; Buchanan Street; Byres Road; C. Candleriggs; Cochrane Street, Glasgow; D. Duke Street, … Oswald Street (Bridgeton) was formed on ground pertaining to Barrowfield Spinning Factory, which was owned by the same gentleman, who is deservedly commemorated by a statue at the north-east corner of George Square. London Street was foimed by the Corporation. Had this been a holy cross to the memory of a saint or bishop, the indictment would have mentioned it, and the dignitaries of the Church would most likely have taken the punishment in hand, or at least have had a say in it, but the Church is silent, and the Cross is This must have been an exceptional case, and may have been done to give her a chance of getting back to her native wilds. Allan's Pen however, so far as the writer can remember from the remnant of it remaining in his day, through which he has passed many a time, would be about eight feet by eight. The old title being cariied westward, and getting metamorphosed, was imposed upon Saint Enoch Square. Broomielaw, a grassy slope or meadow with broom growing on it. superstition of the time, and only to remember that he crushed for ever the hopes of a pseudo Roman Catholic in his aspirations to the throne. The name comes from a nunnery founded by Robert, Earl of Leicester. It is impossible within the limits of a single volume to give the origin or history of every street—a great many having fancy names, to discover the meaning of which would be somewhat of the nature of a conundrnm. At the present rate of extension in this direction his prediction seems likely to be fulfilled at no very remote date. This thoroughfare was exploited by James Scott of Kelly about the middle of last century. It was then known as Walcargate, deriving this name from being the residing place of a colony of cloth waulkers or fullers. The name also hints at the darker side of Glasgow’s history - many local merchants made their fortune by exploiting slave labour in the plantations of Jamaica and the West Indies. It had previously been known as Merkdaily, that is the daily market where fruit and vegetables were sold. Peel Street, named in honour of Sir Robert Peel, who passed the Reform Bill of 1832. Blackburn Street (Plantation) was so named after the Midland town by one of the trustees of Mr. Maclean, because he had business connections with it. By the end of the century the population of Glasgow had reached 84,000. Stockwell Street derives the name from a well which stood on the east side, about half way down the street, and was wrought with the old-fashioned wood stock, which vanished with the introduction of the iron lever. It was an outrage on the public rights, but no action was taken as happened later in the that his arrogant and over bearing attitude to the public got. Bridgegate Street, opened in 1100, and previous to the erection of the bridge over the river. Killermont Street, after the lands of this name, on the banks of the Kelvin, in the parish of New Kilpatrick, about four miles from the city. In ancient times, anterior to our ecclesiastical history, a Druidical place of worship stood on the site of the present Necropolis, the only approach to which must have been the Drygate, hence it was designated the priests' road. Did you know that the street was named after Andrew Buchanan. Who Charley was history sayeth not, but when he departed this life it was found that he had left a legacy to the East-enders in the shape of a small green which was to remain an open space for ever, but the little oasis has been utilised by a railway company, who have not given an equivalent. It was originally intended to carry this street eastward in front of Monteith Row and through the lands of Greenhead to join London Road at what is now called Bridgeton Cross. He, like another townsman, had a penchant for English names, and styled the other street on the croft Suffolk Street. A distillery was ill operation here in 1786, carried on by William Menzies, who was the first in the West of Scotland to have an entered still, his license being the fourth in Scotland, the duty at that time being about one penny per gallon, and the best malt spirits were sold for three shillings per gallon. ​Frederick Street, opened 1787, was named for the Duke of York. The matter was fought in the Court of Session, culminating in the House of Lords in favour of the public, which spelled ruin for Tam Harvey of Harvey's Dyke. The name of this street has disappeared in the march of improvement. Alex Glass. From this it would appear that pro-Boerism is not a creation of yesterday. This thoroughfare is now swallowed up in the G. & S.-W. Railway Station. a considerable extent, and although no pretence is made in this work as to an exhaustion of the subject yet it may safely be asserted that it contains more information anent the principal thoroughfares of this city than any previous publication. His wife, Elizabeth Strang, was a sister of the City Chamberlain. Hospital Street is formed upon the site of St. Ninian's Leper Hospital, founded by Lady Lochow in 1350. Kingston consists of the western portion of the lands purchased by the Magistrates and Council from Sir Robert Douglas in 1647. In 1174 it was written Dalmurnech, which is purely Celtic, from two words dael and muranach, meaning the meadow or plain abounding in bent and iris. Cumberland Street (Hutchesontow^n) is marked on M'Arthur's map, made from actual survey in 1778, as Shields Lone. Thanks to rapid expansion during the era of Empire, as well as more modern developments, the city now has several thousand streets within its borders. Battlefield and Battlefield Road are there to commemorate the struggle which quenched in blood the hopes of Scotland's beauteous but unfortunate Queen. Laurieston. In the beginning of the eighteenth century the westmost section of the lands of Overnewton, including the park of Yorkhill, became the property of Robert Fulton Alexander, merchant in Glasgow, and he, about 1805, built the present mansion and gave the general name of Yorkhill to it and the lands he had acquired. One of the side walls of the old building stood till within the last three years, and a fragment can yet be seen behind St. Paul's Parish Mission Hall by going up the close or entry number 14. They were extensive merchants. It had previously been a footpath known as The Pleasants, and was interspersed with self-contained houses, which had gardens back and front. Drury Street. The operation cut it in two, and the eastern portion became for a time London Lane. The father of the late John Elder, of Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard, who had come from Strathaven as an operative, superintended the fitting up of the These notes have been given in rectification of the popular idea that the place had been named by a former proprietor after a favourite daughter called Bella. The first part of the name is purely Celtic, the latter English, and means the servant of Mary's (Saint Mary) hill. This work was published before January 1, 1926, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Stuball. He was proprietor of the Cudbear Works in Duke Street, and the original partner of the Hurlet and Campsie Alum Co. The eastern part of the street from Maxwell Street to Stockwell Street is called East Howard Street, and it occupies to a considerable extent the graveyard of the old Town's Hospital, which stood a few yards east of Saint Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral. 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