Braidfauld
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Braidfauld is the 45th Ward in the City of Glasgow
, Scotland
. It is bounded on the south by the River Clyde
(along which is a pleasant walkway) and on the north by (mostly) Tollcross Road. Its western boundary is the west wall of the old Belvidere Hospital carried on roughly northeastwards to Tollcross Road, and its eastern boundary is Causewayside Street. Braidfauld is a slightly artificial creation and few residents would recognise it as other than a sub-district of their area, feeling more affinity (depending on where they live) with neighbouring areas such as Barrowfield
, Parkhead
and Tollcross
.
Braidfauld Street was the terminus of the Number 9 Auchenshuggle
tram, opposite the Auchenshuggle woods. Auchenshuggle
was a hamlet slightly to the north east, and was part of the Easterhill Estate, which ran down to the River Clyde
. Easterhill House, erected as a country retreat by Glasgow merchants in the 19th century has been demolished. Other farms underlying modern Braidfauld were Braidfauld and Maukinfauld farms and Newbank House (all mentioned on an 1865 map). Lilybank is not mentioned on any earlier map and is perhaps a modern fanciful name, modelled on the nearby Newbank.
established the prize collection of rare plants which became the basis of the Glasgow Botanic Gardens
in the West-end.
Later, in 1850, Dalbeth returned (after 300 years) to the possession of the Roman Catholic Church
. The Sisters of Our Lady of the Good Shepherd established a Magdelen Asylum, where unmarried mothers could work out their penitence. In 1865, they established a Girls' Reformatory. A Boy's Reformatory was established later, slightly further west, in Westthorn Mills. A Church designed by Peter Paul Pugin
(1851–1904), (brother of E.W. Pugin) in typical ornate style, with three naves, was opened in 1902. A Polish Education Centre was established during the Second World War, so that soldiers in the Free Polish Army could complete their (Polish) secondary education there (from a newspaper clipping of April 1944). It became the Parish Church in 1948 and the Reformatory buildings became the Good Shepherd R.C. Primary School. The Church and school were closed in 1975 and later demolished, along with the Primary School/ Reformatory Buildings. The land is now used as an extension to Dalbeth Cemetery.
Like the other great houses erected by Glasgow merchants, Dalbeth House has disappeared as has the 19th century Convent, though the administration building of the Cemetery may incorporate parts of both. The sisters' cemetery is still there, slightly to the side of the much larger St Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth, which included a Jews' Cemetery in the 19th century. There are distinctive Polish and Italian parts of the cemetery, and many locally famous Catholics (including John Wheatley
) are buried there.
(1791–1799) and again in Rambles Around Glasgow of 1835. It still feels very surprisingly remote and is still beautiful. Westthorn was the site of riots in the early 19th century. Thomas Harvie became the new owner of Westthorn House and estate. He tried to cut off a right of way (from Dalmarnock
to Carmyle
) in 1819. The riots were put down by the military (the Enniskillen
Dragoons) under the direction of the Sheriff. However,the locals, supported by a fund raised by Glasgow democrats, took Harvie to court - all the way to the House of Lords
- and eventually won their case. Mr Harvie owned a distillery in Port Dundas
. Nowadays the site of Westthorn House is occupied by a bottling plant for John Dewar and Sons.
Across London Road from Westthorn Park is the site of a football park, (Helenslea Park named after a daughter of the owner of nearby Belvidere House). It used to be the home ground of Parkhead Juniors
Football Club. Founded in 1880, it was the oldest team in the Scottish Junior League. They were one of the eight founder members in 1895 of what was to become the Scottish Junior Football League
.
They won the Scottish Junior Cup
five times - 1899, 1903, 1915, 1920 and 1924), and appeared as finalists in 8 out of the 12 seasons from 1911. "If no single club could claim total dominance over the period (i.e., the first half of the 20th century) Parkhead at least merit an honourable mention with three league titles (one shared); four Glasgow Cups; two Junior cups and three other appearances in the final". On 10 April 1924, in the semi-final of the 1923/24 Junior Cup, they faced Bridgeton
Waverley at Celtic Park
in front of a crowd of 11,500 (even though the Scottish Football Association
cup final was taking place at Hampden Park
at the same time).
The entrance was in Methven Street. Parkhead Juniors seem, like a lot of Lilybank
, to have disappeared from history. Though they were still playing in the 1950s, they went defunct in June 1963.
The Glasgow Central Railway ran through Bridgeton Station and under London Road, emerging from a tunnel at Dalriada Street. In Whitby Street, a few minutes to the north west of Belvidere, there used to be Parkhead Stadium Station, famously visited once by George V and Queen Mary on their way to Beardmore's Steelworks in Parkhead, which was the major employer in the area. This has completely disappeared, as have most of the ancillary engineering and boiler-making small firms. (There was a spur from the railway to John Thomson (Wilson's Boilers) along the back courts of Dunning Street.) Parkhead Tram Dept, on Tollcross Road lives on as a bus garage, but the only major employer is United Biscuits (in Clyedford Drive) though there are distribution warehouses along the London Road.
(later King Edward VIII
) kicked off a match between Rangers
and Partick Thistle. Rangers won. Parkhead Juniors also played there in their heyday.
This street leads to Tollcross Road, where there is the Parkhead Public Library (which may not technically be in Braidfauld).
The Farm Shop in Cuthelton Street was part of the 18th century farm in that area.
Eastwards of the entrance to the driveway is a much remodelled 19th century cottage, set back from the road at the entrance to the Nun’s Cemetery.
Half-a mile westwards on London Road, opposite the entrance to the former Belvidere Hospital, is a much re-modelled two storey family house, possibly related to the original farm. It is of locally quarried sandstone and is probably of about the middle of the 19th century.
Overlooking Tollcross Road, and set in its original grounds, is the magnificent Tollcross House', built in 1848.
It was built (of gray ashlar) for one of the partners of Clyde Ironworks, James Dunlop
. The architect was David Bryce
who also designed Fettes College
in Edinburgh and Balfour Castle
in Orkney which shares with Tollross House the Scots Baronial
style of crowstepped gables, circular towers with conical caps, massed chimneys and mullioned windows. The family gave up living there as tenements invaded the surrounding area. The grounds became Tollcross Park in 1897 and the buildings became a Children’s Museum, housing the locally famous “Who killed Cock Robin?” display of stuffed birds, small mammals and insects. It also had the last deer shot in the park -"Bobbie" - stuffed and on display. The building was turned into flats in 1998,and the display moved to the Forge shopping mall a mile away.
All that remains of the ruins of Belvidere Hospital is the imposing, Administration Building, in classical style and of the same grey sandstone.
With the coming of railways, sandstone could be easily transported over long distances and buildings began to be built of an attractive red sandstone, usually quarried at Lockerbie.
A two storey family house in the middle of the drive to St Peter's Cemetery at 1920 London Road is of red brick, rather than sandstone.
More imposing is the stately line of four- storey red sandstone tenement flats, known as the Deer Park flats, built at the turn of the century along Tollcross Road, opposite Tollcross park and running towards Parkhead Cross. These tenements have repeating, rounded, bow windows and continue further along Tollcross Road, following a stately parallel line towards Parkhead Cross. (At the juncture with Makinfauld Road, shops and a pub formed the ground floor. There is also a small shop built into the middle of the tenements opposite the main park gates).
(an architect who also did Shawlands
Cross Parish Church Halls and Sir John Stirling Maxwell Primary in Pollokshaws
).
. These are continued into Whitby Street, close to where Parkhead Stadium Station used to be.
No more traditional tenements were to be built after these, though they together with the Deer Park tenements mentioned above still highly sought-after places to live. The flats above the Tavern Pub in Tollcross Road are pre-First World War.
Increasing use of railways for transporting materials meant that traditional sandstone in building was replaced by brick (often rendered) and slates replaced by tiles. Traditional designs were also often given up in favour of designs from pattern books, especially where there was pressure on costs.
For most of the 20th century domestic building was exclusively carried on by the City Council, (Glasgow Corporation), or later Housing Associations, and it was not until the 1980s that private housing began to make a comeback.
The 1919 (Addison) and 1924 Housing (Wheatley) Acts gave local councils a duty to build houses for working class citizens for which central government provided a subsidy. The aim was to provide “homes fit for heroes” - the heroes being the soldiers returning from the First World War .The Minister responsible for the 1924 Act was a local man named John Wheatley
. The Glasgow council (Glasgow Corporation) eventually envisaged three grades of housing schemes.
“Ordinary” estates were to be built to a high specification in estate layout, building and fitments, and so were to be let at a relatively high rent. They were mostly four-in-a-block flats, each flat with its own front door, with some semi-detached and short terraces here and there. They were made of brick and roofed with tiles. Churches, shopping parades and community centres were to be incorporated. These ‘garden suburb’ houses - an idea imported from the south - were let to teachers and semi-professional council employees. Examples in Glasgow were built at Carntyne
, Mossend
and Knightswood
. The logic of these developments (in terms of supporting the ‘working classes’) was that those who moved to these areas would release relatively high quality tenements for incoming working class tenants. These schemes, like red sandstone tenements, remain highly desirable places to stay. None were built in Braidfauld.
A second grade of council housing were 'Intermediate' schemes, aimed at skilled and semi-skilled workers who could afford the rent, still exists today in Newbank
, built opposite (and possibly for the staff of) Belvidere Hospital. This 1920s ‘Intermediate’ housing scheme took on many of the aspects of the ‘Ordinary’ schemes - four-in-a-block cottage style flats with gardens and some area landscaping and is still attractive today.
At the lower end of the spectrum were “Rehousing” estates built to receive those cleared from slum areas of Glasgow.
These were built under the 1930 (Greenwood) and 1935 Housing Acts, when the pressure to house many thousands was greater and the central government subsidy smaller. The specification was much lower than “Ordinary” schemes. (Each block cost about £250 to build in contrast to the £1000 it took to build an ‘Ordinary’ block.) A reversion was made to the tenement model, though in ‘modern’ guise, the estate was not well laid out and no provision was made for shops or community buildings. The tenants, who were mostly unskilled, would be charged a low rent.
Much of the rest of Newbank
and the whole of Lilybank
(opened in 1933) was given over to "Rehousing" grade houses. Most were demolished in the 1990s, though you can still see examples a mile further east in Dunira Street (illustrated).
The 1930s houses (actually, flats) in these areas were what were to become standard three-storey tile-roofed tenements of grey reconstituted stone, with back-courts for drying greens. The flats - normally six, all accessed from a doorless close - were mostly of 2, 3 or 4 bedroom, built to accommodate tenants cleared from the 19th century "slums" of Garngad, Calton
and Camlachie
. By contrast with the houses they had left, the new ones had some amenity - a toilet and bathroom, a kitchen with an oven back-to-back with the fireplace in the adjoining main room, a gas boiler, two sinks linked by wringer, a pulley and a coal bunker. The main living room had an open coal fire and there was a "meat press" (a cupboard ventilated from the outside) in the corner. Other rooms were heated by gas fires and each room had an electric light and socket. (Electricity and gas were at that time generated by the council itself).
There was an attempt to give the resuscitated tenement model a ‘modernist’ air by using reconstituted concrete, but this did not weather well. There were however, no schools, churches, public houses, or other communal facilities, so tenants had to make use of amenities in Tollcross and Parkhead.
Between Maukinfauld Road and Braidfauld Street is a post- World War II development of low-rise houses, many semi-detached or short terraces.
A range of low-rise "maisonette"-type houses, some in closes, some short terraces, were built in Glenisla Street in the 1960s. They are brick built and roof-tiled
Three high-rise blocks of flats, in part over the disused railway and station, were erected between Helenvale Street and Springfield Road in 1967 - 69. They were built by George Wimpey, a locally well-known builder.
Improvements in public housing continued with a new, modern Lilybank
Housing Estate being opened in 2000 by the Scottish Minister for Housing, Lewis MacDonald
.
In the 1980s, the council began releasing land for private development (something it had previously declined to do). Eastwards along the railway, new houses were erected in the 1990s as was a development known as The Potteries (on the site of the old Govancroft Pottery). On Tollcross Road, east of the Deer Park tenements, flats in an extensive, super-modern block was built in 2005.
Braidfauld’s pubs are all in Tollcross Road, - The Tavern, (built especially to be near Parkhead depot), The Bells, opposite Tollcross Park, and midway between them The Grapes (both part of 19th century tenements which also include small shops). The 1960s Glasgow Celtic Supporters Club on London Road also has a bar for members.
and Camlachie
and it was built of brick to a vaguely early Christian (though decidedly modern) style. The interior has arcades of round arches on circular stone piers with scallop capitals and a big semi-circular arch to the raised chancel. The architects were Hutton and Taylor who also designed King's Park
Parish Church, which too was part of a significant church building programme by the Church of Scotland at that time. The stained glass windows are by Gordon Webster and are more recent - the Crucifixion in the chancel (1970) and St Luke in the aisle (1971).
The Roman Catholic parish Church of the Good Shepherd, built by Peter Paul Pugin
, was demolished in the 1970s.
Total 6,735
Number of Males 3,057 (45.4%)
Number of Females 3,678 (54.6%)
Electorate 5,026
5-15 789 (14.7%)
16-29 1317 (19.6%)
30-44 1576 (23.4%)
45-59/64 1286 (19.1%)
60/65+ 1187 (17.6%)
Lower Managerial & Professional 446 (10.9%)
Intermediate Occupations 361 (8.8%)
Small Empl. & Own Account W. 105 (2.6%)
Lower Superv. & Tech. Occupations 312 (7.6%)
Semi-routine Occupations 685 (16.7%)
Routine Occupations 623 (15.2%)
Never Worked/L.T. Unemployed 464 (11.3%)
Full-time Students & Other 995 (24.3%)
Owner Occupied 1,204 (33.5%)
Private Rented 201 (5.6%)
Glasgow Housing Association 1,589 (44.2%)
Other Social Rented 603 (16.8%)
Detached 62 (1.7%)
Semi-detached 389 (10.9%)
Terraced 443 (12.4%)
Flats and Others 2,684 (75.0%)
Households with no car 2278 (68.1%)
Households with 1+ car(s) 1069 (31.9%)
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Glasgow
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, Scotland
Scotland
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. It is bounded on the south by the River Clyde
River Clyde
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(along which is a pleasant walkway) and on the north by (mostly) Tollcross Road. Its western boundary is the west wall of the old Belvidere Hospital carried on roughly northeastwards to Tollcross Road, and its eastern boundary is Causewayside Street. Braidfauld is a slightly artificial creation and few residents would recognise it as other than a sub-district of their area, feeling more affinity (depending on where they live) with neighbouring areas such as Barrowfield
Barrowfield
Barrowfield is an area of east Glasgow in Camlachie, close to Celtic Park, home of Celtic Football Club.It is an area of working class housing enclosed by main roads and railway lines, which consequently developed a distinctive character...
, Parkhead
Parkhead
Parkhead is a district in the East End of Glasgow. Its name comes from a small weaving hamlet at the meeting place of the Great Eastern Road and Westmuir Street. Duke Street and Springfield Road also meet there, to form a turreted Edwardian five-way junction at Parkhead Cross...
and Tollcross
Tollcross, Glasgow
Tollcross is an area north of the River Clyde in Glasgow and has a popular park which is famed for its international rose trials. It lies approximately a mile east of the neighbouring suburb of Parkhead, and just north of Braidfauld and south of Shettleston....
.
Origins of name
The district is named after Braidfauld Farm, which is mentioned on local maps until the 1930s, at the junction of London Road with the now Braidfauld Avenue. "Braid" is Old Scots for the top of a slope. A "fauld" was the poorer part of the village fields left fallow until manured by grazing sheep or cattle. "Braidfauld" was the "fallow land at the top of the slope". Similarly, "Maukinfauld" was the "fallow land pestered by hares" ("maulkens" in Scots). Braidfauld Street ran to a farm of that name, as Maukinfauld Road, in the middle of the district, ran to the farm after which it is named.Auchenshuggle
Auchenshuggle
Auchenshuggle is an area of the city of Glasgow in Scotland.It is the easternmost part of the Braidfauld Ward of the City of Glasgow...
tram, opposite the Auchenshuggle woods. Auchenshuggle
Auchenshuggle
Auchenshuggle is an area of the city of Glasgow in Scotland.It is the easternmost part of the Braidfauld Ward of the City of Glasgow...
was a hamlet slightly to the north east, and was part of the Easterhill Estate, which ran down to the River Clyde
River Clyde
The River Clyde is a major river in Scotland. It is the ninth longest river in the United Kingdom, and the third longest in Scotland. Flowing through the major city of Glasgow, it was an important river for shipbuilding and trade in the British Empire....
. Easterhill House, erected as a country retreat by Glasgow merchants in the 19th century has been demolished. Other farms underlying modern Braidfauld were Braidfauld and Maukinfauld farms and Newbank House (all mentioned on an 1865 map). Lilybank is not mentioned on any earlier map and is perhaps a modern fanciful name, modelled on the nearby Newbank.
Dalbeth
Beyond the woods is the site of the Dalbeth Estate. The estate was primarily a country retreat, but the owners worked the freestone and coal underneath. It is even said some local gold was found while, in the shallows of the Clyde large mussel-like bi-valves often provided serviceable pearls. Here Thomas HopkirkThomas Hopkirk
-The Hopkirks:He was descended from a gentry family who came from Hopekirk, near Hawick, by way of Dalkeith in Midlothian,to Dalbeth in Glasgow . His grandfather, also Thomas had been a wealthy Glasgow merchant - a “Tobacco Lord” or “Virginia Don” - who had diversified into coal mining, brewing...
established the prize collection of rare plants which became the basis of the Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Glasgow Botanic Gardens is an Arboretum and public park located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland. It features several glasshouses, the most notable of which is the Kibble Palace. The gardens were created in 1817, and run by the Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow , and were intended to supply...
in the West-end.
Later, in 1850, Dalbeth returned (after 300 years) to the possession of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
. The Sisters of Our Lady of the Good Shepherd established a Magdelen Asylum, where unmarried mothers could work out their penitence. In 1865, they established a Girls' Reformatory. A Boy's Reformatory was established later, slightly further west, in Westthorn Mills. A Church designed by Peter Paul Pugin
Peter Paul Pugin
Peter Paul Pugin was an English architect, son of Augustus Welby Pugin by his third wife Jane Knill. He was the half-brother of architect and designer Edward Welby Pugin....
(1851–1904), (brother of E.W. Pugin) in typical ornate style, with three naves, was opened in 1902. A Polish Education Centre was established during the Second World War, so that soldiers in the Free Polish Army could complete their (Polish) secondary education there (from a newspaper clipping of April 1944). It became the Parish Church in 1948 and the Reformatory buildings became the Good Shepherd R.C. Primary School. The Church and school were closed in 1975 and later demolished, along with the Primary School/ Reformatory Buildings. The land is now used as an extension to Dalbeth Cemetery.
Like the other great houses erected by Glasgow merchants, Dalbeth House has disappeared as has the 19th century Convent, though the administration building of the Cemetery may incorporate parts of both. The sisters' cemetery is still there, slightly to the side of the much larger St Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth, which included a Jews' Cemetery in the 19th century. There are distinctive Polish and Italian parts of the cemetery, and many locally famous Catholics (including John Wheatley
John Wheatley
John Wheatley was a Scottish socialist politician. He was a prominent figure of the Red Clydeside era.Wheatley was born in Bonmahon, County Waterford, Ireland, to Thomas and Johanna Wheatley. In 1876 the family moved to Braehead, Lanarkshire in Scotland...
) are buried there.
Govancroft Pottery 1911-1976
Across London Road, at the corner of Potter Street, was the substantial Govancroft Pottery. At one point this had (according to the Pottery Society), "a monopoly of (ceramic) jam jars" which it exported throughout the world. Latterly, it produced distinctive thistle shaped ware. A quick search on the website indicates that there is still a substantial trade among collectors for them. The pottery was closed in 1976. A pleasant set of modern houses has taken their place, called "The Potteries". There is a Govancroft museum in Edinburgh you can view it if you call before hand 07954619132Westthorn
Further west again (close by the Glasgow Celtic supporters' club) is what remains of Westthorn Park (the allotments only, the cycle track and football fields having been removed). The beauty of the sylvan, meandering Clyde at Westthorn was described rapturously in the First Statistical Account of ScotlandStatistical Accounts of Scotland
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland are three series of documentary publications covering life in Scotland in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries....
(1791–1799) and again in Rambles Around Glasgow of 1835. It still feels very surprisingly remote and is still beautiful. Westthorn was the site of riots in the early 19th century. Thomas Harvie became the new owner of Westthorn House and estate. He tried to cut off a right of way (from Dalmarnock
Dalmarnock
Dalmarnock is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde. It is bounded by the Clyde to the south and east, Parkhead to the north, and Bridgeton at Dunn Street to the north west...
to Carmyle
Carmyle
Carmyle is a small village in the east end of Glasgow, north of the River Clyde.-Transport:Carmyle railway station which opened in August 1866, is on the Whifflet Line. It is an unstaffed, 2-platform halt. Trains run to Glasgow Central from Westbound Platform 1, and to Mount Vernon, Baillieston,...
) in 1819. The riots were put down by the military (the Enniskillen
Enniskillen
Enniskillen is a town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is located almost exactly in the centre of the county between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne. It had a population of 13,599 in the 2001 Census...
Dragoons) under the direction of the Sheriff. However,the locals, supported by a fund raised by Glasgow democrats, took Harvie to court - all the way to the House of Lords
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
- and eventually won their case. Mr Harvie owned a distillery in Port Dundas
Port Dundas
Port Dundas is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, located to the north of the city centre. It lies to the north of Cowcaddens, and to the west of Sighthill, with Hamiltonhill and Possilpark to the north-west.-History:...
. Nowadays the site of Westthorn House is occupied by a bottling plant for John Dewar and Sons.
Parkhead Juniors 1880-1963
Parkhead F.C.
Parkhead Football Club was a founding member of the Scottish Junior Football League but the team no longer exists. It played at Helenslea Park in Parkhead, Glasgow. In the early years of the Scottish Junior Cup, Parkhead Juniors appeared in 9 finals and won the cup 5 times. Many of its players went...
Football Club. Founded in 1880, it was the oldest team in the Scottish Junior League. They were one of the eight founder members in 1895 of what was to become the Scottish Junior Football League
Scottish Junior Football League
The Scottish Junior Football League was a Scottish football competition that, through various incarnations, existed from the 1892 to 1947....
.
Scottish Junior Cup
The Scottish Junior Cup, known as The Emirates Junior Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual football competition organised by the Scottish Junior Football Association for all its member clubs. The competition has been held every year since the inception of the SJFA in 1886 and as of the...
five times - 1899, 1903, 1915, 1920 and 1924), and appeared as finalists in 8 out of the 12 seasons from 1911. "If no single club could claim total dominance over the period (i.e., the first half of the 20th century) Parkhead at least merit an honourable mention with three league titles (one shared); four Glasgow Cups; two Junior cups and three other appearances in the final". On 10 April 1924, in the semi-final of the 1923/24 Junior Cup, they faced Bridgeton
Bridgeton, Glasgow
Bridgeton is a district to the east side of Glasgow city centre. It is bounded by Glasgow Green to the west, Dalmarnock to the east and south and Calton to the north-west at Abercromby Street/ London Road...
Waverley at Celtic Park
Celtic Park
Celtic Park is a football stadium in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which is the home ground of Celtic FC. Celtic Park, an all-seater stadium with a capacity of 60,832, is the largest football stadium in Scotland and the sixth-largest stadium in the United Kingdom, after Murrayfield, Old Trafford,...
in front of a crowd of 11,500 (even though the Scottish Football Association
Scottish Football Association
The Scottish Football Association is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility for the control and development of football in Scotland. Members of the SFA include clubs in Scotland, affiliated national associations as well as local associations...
cup final was taking place at Hampden Park
Hampden Park
Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 52,063 capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland...
at the same time).
The entrance was in Methven Street. Parkhead Juniors seem, like a lot of Lilybank
Lilybank
Lilybank is a district in the east of Glasgow. It was farmland until the 1930s, though small industries such as rope and brickworks had also been established...
, to have disappeared from history. Though they were still playing in the 1950s, they went defunct in June 1963.
The "ferme"
To the south west corner of Parkhead Juniors park is a 19th century house - probably the original Lilybank farm house. To the north of this, opposite the Fire Station in Cuthelton Street, is a (still functioning) old local store - formerly known as "the ferme", it now sports the name of "The Farm Shop"Belvidere Hospital 1871-1999
Further west from Westthorn Park lies the site of the former Belvidere Estate. This was originally called Wester Dalbeth, but was renamed in the late 18th Century after the estate house, Belvidere. A brickfield site was established there in the mid-19th century. In 1870 there was a smallpox epidemic in Glasgow which threatened to overpower the cities charity hospitals. The Council bought the Belvidere estate and established, in that country area, the "City Hospitals" there for infectious diseases. The original wooden isolation pavilions were replaced by 19 smallpox pavilions by 1887. It became the Belvidere Hospital for infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis, with airy wards, including beds on balconies overlooking Westthorn Park. Finally, it became a geriatric hospital before closing in 1999. Except for the imposing Administration building, the buildings have been demolished.Parkhead Stadium Station
Helenvale Street Recreation Ground
Helenvale Street is also the home of the large recreation ground, created originally for employees of Glasgow City Transport. It contained a Bowling Green and a football ground. This was opened on 2 September 1924 when the then Prince of WalesPrince of Wales
Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
(later King Edward VIII
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936.Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay...
) kicked off a match between Rangers
Rangers F.C.
Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...
and Partick Thistle. Rangers won. Parkhead Juniors also played there in their heyday.
This street leads to Tollcross Road, where there is the Parkhead Public Library (which may not technically be in Braidfauld).
18th century
The east end of Glasgow was initially the preferred choice area of Glasgow's tobacco merchants and they built several country estates in the Braidfauld and surrounding area. None of these buildings survive,they have been demolished and the estates turned into housing. The estates included Easterhill House, Dalbeth House, Westthorn House' and Belvidere House - each was photographed in the late 19th century by Thomas Annan. The buildings at the entrance to 1920 London Road are the remains of the lodge house for Dalbeth House.The Farm Shop in Cuthelton Street was part of the 18th century farm in that area.
19th century
The administration building for St Peter’s Cemetery, Dalbeth was part of the 19th century Convent of the Good Shepherd and may incorporate part of the original Dalbeth House.Eastwards of the entrance to the driveway is a much remodelled 19th century cottage, set back from the road at the entrance to the Nun’s Cemetery.
Half-a mile westwards on London Road, opposite the entrance to the former Belvidere Hospital, is a much re-modelled two storey family house, possibly related to the original farm. It is of locally quarried sandstone and is probably of about the middle of the 19th century.
Overlooking Tollcross Road, and set in its original grounds, is the magnificent Tollcross House', built in 1848.
James Dunlop
James Dunlop was an astronomer's assistant who was hired by Sir Thomas Brisbane to work at his private observatory, once located at Paramatta , New South Wales, about twenty-three kilometres west of Sydney, Australia during the 1820s and 1830s...
. The architect was David Bryce
David Bryce
David Bryce FRSE FRIBA RSA was a Scottish architect. Born in Edinburgh, he was educated at the Royal High School and joined the office of architect William Burn in 1825, aged 22. By 1841, Bryce had risen to be Burn's partner...
who also designed Fettes College
Fettes College
Fettes College is an independent school for boarding and day pupils in Edinburgh, Scotland with over two thirds of its pupils in residence on campus...
in Edinburgh and Balfour Castle
Balfour Castle
Balfour Castle is a historic building on the southwest of Shapinsay, Orkney Islands. Though built around an older structure that dates at least from the 18th century, the present castle was built in 1847, commissioned by Colonel David Balfour, and designed by Edinburgh architect David...
in Orkney which shares with Tollross House the Scots Baronial
Scottish baronial style
The Scottish Baronial style is part of the Gothic Revival architecture style, using stylistic elements and forms from castles, tower houses and mansions of the Gothic architecture period in Scotland, such as Craigievar Castle and Newark Castle, Port Glasgow. The revival style was popular from the...
style of crowstepped gables, circular towers with conical caps, massed chimneys and mullioned windows. The family gave up living there as tenements invaded the surrounding area. The grounds became Tollcross Park in 1897 and the buildings became a Children’s Museum, housing the locally famous “Who killed Cock Robin?” display of stuffed birds, small mammals and insects. It also had the last deer shot in the park -"Bobbie" - stuffed and on display. The building was turned into flats in 1998,and the display moved to the Forge shopping mall a mile away.
All that remains of the ruins of Belvidere Hospital is the imposing, Administration Building, in classical style and of the same grey sandstone.
With the coming of railways, sandstone could be easily transported over long distances and buildings began to be built of an attractive red sandstone, usually quarried at Lockerbie.
More imposing is the stately line of four- storey red sandstone tenement flats, known as the Deer Park flats, built at the turn of the century along Tollcross Road, opposite Tollcross park and running towards Parkhead Cross. These tenements have repeating, rounded, bow windows and continue further along Tollcross Road, following a stately parallel line towards Parkhead Cross. (At the juncture with Makinfauld Road, shops and a pub formed the ground floor. There is also a small shop built into the middle of the tenements opposite the main park gates).
20th century
The finest red sandstone flats are some quaintly Art Nouveau tenements built in 1902 in Helenvale Street by John HamiltonJohn Hamilton
- Nobility :*John Hamilton of Cadzow, 4th Laird of Cadzow Scottish nobleman and soldier*John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Hamilton , Scottish nobleman*John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Bargany - Nobility :*John Hamilton of Cadzow, 4th Laird of Cadzow (before 1370 – c. 1402) Scottish nobleman and soldier*John...
(an architect who also did Shawlands
Shawlands
Shawlands is a district of Glasgow, Scotland located less than 2 miles south of the River Clyde. The area has an approximate population of 8000 people, with over 82% dwelling in flats, 74% owner occupied and 79% living alone or with one other person...
Cross Parish Church Halls and Sir John Stirling Maxwell Primary in Pollokshaws
Pollokshaws
Pollokshaws is a district on the southside of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The housing stock mostly consists of some sandstone tenement housing, tower blocks and modern brick tenement-style buildings...
).
No more traditional tenements were to be built after these, though they together with the Deer Park tenements mentioned above still highly sought-after places to live. The flats above the Tavern Pub in Tollcross Road are pre-First World War.
Increasing use of railways for transporting materials meant that traditional sandstone in building was replaced by brick (often rendered) and slates replaced by tiles. Traditional designs were also often given up in favour of designs from pattern books, especially where there was pressure on costs.
For most of the 20th century domestic building was exclusively carried on by the City Council, (Glasgow Corporation), or later Housing Associations, and it was not until the 1980s that private housing began to make a comeback.
The 1919 (Addison) and 1924 Housing (Wheatley) Acts gave local councils a duty to build houses for working class citizens for which central government provided a subsidy. The aim was to provide “homes fit for heroes” - the heroes being the soldiers returning from the First World War .The Minister responsible for the 1924 Act was a local man named John Wheatley
John Wheatley
John Wheatley was a Scottish socialist politician. He was a prominent figure of the Red Clydeside era.Wheatley was born in Bonmahon, County Waterford, Ireland, to Thomas and Johanna Wheatley. In 1876 the family moved to Braehead, Lanarkshire in Scotland...
. The Glasgow council (Glasgow Corporation) eventually envisaged three grades of housing schemes.
“Ordinary” estates were to be built to a high specification in estate layout, building and fitments, and so were to be let at a relatively high rent. They were mostly four-in-a-block flats, each flat with its own front door, with some semi-detached and short terraces here and there. They were made of brick and roofed with tiles. Churches, shopping parades and community centres were to be incorporated. These ‘garden suburb’ houses - an idea imported from the south - were let to teachers and semi-professional council employees. Examples in Glasgow were built at Carntyne
Carntyne
Carntyne is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde, and to the east end of the city...
, Mossend
Mossend
Mossend is a town on the A775, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, to the east of its larger sister town, Bellshill, and near to the Strathclyde Country Park....
and Knightswood
Knightswood
Knightswood is a suburban district in Glasgow, containing 4 areas: Knightswood North or High Knightswood, Knightswood South or Low Knightswood, Knightswood Park and Blairdardie. It has a golf course and park, and good transport links with the rest of the city. Garscadden and Scotstounhill railway...
. The logic of these developments (in terms of supporting the ‘working classes’) was that those who moved to these areas would release relatively high quality tenements for incoming working class tenants. These schemes, like red sandstone tenements, remain highly desirable places to stay. None were built in Braidfauld.
A second grade of council housing were 'Intermediate' schemes, aimed at skilled and semi-skilled workers who could afford the rent, still exists today in Newbank
Newbank
Newbank is a district in the east-end of Glasgow , now a settlement of council houses but deriving from an 18th century estate of that name. Newbank House has left no remains, but there is a fine red-sandstone 19th century Newbank Primary School in Springfield Road...
, built opposite (and possibly for the staff of) Belvidere Hospital. This 1920s ‘Intermediate’ housing scheme took on many of the aspects of the ‘Ordinary’ schemes - four-in-a-block cottage style flats with gardens and some area landscaping and is still attractive today.
At the lower end of the spectrum were “Rehousing” estates built to receive those cleared from slum areas of Glasgow.
Much of the rest of Newbank
Newbank
Newbank is a district in the east-end of Glasgow , now a settlement of council houses but deriving from an 18th century estate of that name. Newbank House has left no remains, but there is a fine red-sandstone 19th century Newbank Primary School in Springfield Road...
and the whole of Lilybank
Lilybank
Lilybank is a district in the east of Glasgow. It was farmland until the 1930s, though small industries such as rope and brickworks had also been established...
(opened in 1933) was given over to "Rehousing" grade houses. Most were demolished in the 1990s, though you can still see examples a mile further east in Dunira Street (illustrated).
The 1930s houses (actually, flats) in these areas were what were to become standard three-storey tile-roofed tenements of grey reconstituted stone, with back-courts for drying greens. The flats - normally six, all accessed from a doorless close - were mostly of 2, 3 or 4 bedroom, built to accommodate tenants cleared from the 19th century "slums" of Garngad, Calton
Calton, Glasgow
Calton is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. The name Calton is derived from the Gaelic "coillduin", which means "wood on the hill". It is situated north of the River Clyde, and just to the east of the city centre...
and Camlachie
Camlachie
Camlachie is an area of the city of Glasgow in Scotland. Formerly a weaving village on the Camlachie Burn, it is located in the east end of the city, between Dennistoun to the north, and Bridgeton to the south....
. By contrast with the houses they had left, the new ones had some amenity - a toilet and bathroom, a kitchen with an oven back-to-back with the fireplace in the adjoining main room, a gas boiler, two sinks linked by wringer, a pulley and a coal bunker. The main living room had an open coal fire and there was a "meat press" (a cupboard ventilated from the outside) in the corner. Other rooms were heated by gas fires and each room had an electric light and socket. (Electricity and gas were at that time generated by the council itself).
There was an attempt to give the resuscitated tenement model a ‘modernist’ air by using reconstituted concrete, but this did not weather well. There were however, no schools, churches, public houses, or other communal facilities, so tenants had to make use of amenities in Tollcross and Parkhead.
Between Maukinfauld Road and Braidfauld Street is a post- World War II development of low-rise houses, many semi-detached or short terraces.
A range of low-rise "maisonette"-type houses, some in closes, some short terraces, were built in Glenisla Street in the 1960s. They are brick built and roof-tiled
Three high-rise blocks of flats, in part over the disused railway and station, were erected between Helenvale Street and Springfield Road in 1967 - 69. They were built by George Wimpey, a locally well-known builder.
Improvements in public housing continued with a new, modern Lilybank
Lilybank
Lilybank is a district in the east of Glasgow. It was farmland until the 1930s, though small industries such as rope and brickworks had also been established...
Housing Estate being opened in 2000 by the Scottish Minister for Housing, Lewis MacDonald
Lewis Macdonald
Lewis Macdonald is a Scottish Labour regional list Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland, from 2011. He was MSP for the Aberdeen Central constituency from 1999 until 2011.-Background:...
.
In the 1980s, the council began releasing land for private development (something it had previously declined to do). Eastwards along the railway, new houses were erected in the 1990s as was a development known as The Potteries (on the site of the old Govancroft Pottery). On Tollcross Road, east of the Deer Park tenements, flats in an extensive, super-modern block was built in 2005.
Industrial and commercial
The only major industrial or commercial buildings are the late 19th century Parkhead Bus Depot (formerly a tram depot) on Tollcross Road, the United Biscuits factory in Clydeford Drive and a range of hangar-type developments along the London Road in the old Westthorn estate, mostly concerned with bottling or storing whiskey (Allied Distillers and John Dewar & Sons Ltd).Braidfauld’s pubs are all in Tollcross Road, - The Tavern, (built especially to be near Parkhead depot), The Bells, opposite Tollcross Park, and midway between them The Grapes (both part of 19th century tenements which also include small shops). The 1960s Glasgow Celtic Supporters Club on London Road also has a bar for members.
Public buildings
Public buildings in Braidfauld include the Fire Station in Cuthelton Street, and Calton-Parkead Church in Helenvale Street (perched originally above the railway). The fire station was built of red brick in the late 1940s. The church was built as Newbank Church by the Church of Scotland in 1934-35 to replace a mission hut nearby (the 'Tin Church'). As its name suggests, its original congregation had been cleared from the slums of CaltonCalton, Glasgow
Calton is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. The name Calton is derived from the Gaelic "coillduin", which means "wood on the hill". It is situated north of the River Clyde, and just to the east of the city centre...
and Camlachie
Camlachie
Camlachie is an area of the city of Glasgow in Scotland. Formerly a weaving village on the Camlachie Burn, it is located in the east end of the city, between Dennistoun to the north, and Bridgeton to the south....
and it was built of brick to a vaguely early Christian (though decidedly modern) style. The interior has arcades of round arches on circular stone piers with scallop capitals and a big semi-circular arch to the raised chancel. The architects were Hutton and Taylor who also designed King's Park
King's Park, Glasgow
King's Park is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde .-Geography:King's Park is a residential area, with a mixture of semi-detached houses, flats and luxury detached houses...
Parish Church, which too was part of a significant church building programme by the Church of Scotland at that time. The stained glass windows are by Gordon Webster and are more recent - the Crucifixion in the chancel (1970) and St Luke in the aisle (1971).
The Roman Catholic parish Church of the Good Shepherd, built by Peter Paul Pugin
Augustus Pugin
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was an English architect, designer, and theorist of design, now best remembered for his work in the Gothic Revival style, particularly churches and the Palace of Westminster. Pugin was the father of E. W...
, was demolished in the 1970s.
Famous residents
- Thomas HopkirkThomas Hopkirk-The Hopkirks:He was descended from a gentry family who came from Hopekirk, near Hawick, by way of Dalkeith in Midlothian,to Dalbeth in Glasgow . His grandfather, also Thomas had been a wealthy Glasgow merchant - a “Tobacco Lord” or “Virginia Don” - who had diversified into coal mining, brewing...
(1785–1841) assembled a huge collection of plants at his estate in Dalbeth and published a comprehensive Flora - one of the first. He was one of the founders of what was to become the Glasgow Botanic GardensGlasgow Botanic GardensGlasgow Botanic Gardens is an Arboretum and public park located in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland. It features several glasshouses, the most notable of which is the Kibble Palace. The gardens were created in 1817, and run by the Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow , and were intended to supply...
. He donated his collection of plants to start it off. There is a Hopkirk Laboratory in Glasgow University named after him. - John Quinton PringleJohn Quinton PringleJohn Quinton Pringle, was a Scottish painter, influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and associated with the Glasgow Boys .-Early life:Pringle was born the son of a railway employee in Dennistoun , Glasgow...
(1864–1925) was born in DennistounDennistounDennistoun is a district of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated north of the River Clyde in the east end of the city. It is made up of a number of smaller districts - Milnbank to the north, 'The Drives' in the centre of the area and Bellgrove below Duke Street to the south. In a 2004...
, GlasgowGlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
and later lived in Maukinfauld Road, TollcrossTollcross, GlasgowTollcross is an area north of the River Clyde in Glasgow and has a popular park which is famed for its international rose trials. It lies approximately a mile east of the neighbouring suburb of Parkhead, and just north of Braidfauld and south of Shettleston....
. After leaving school at twelve and serving an apprenticeship as an optician, he set up his own business in his early 30s. From 1865, he attended evening classes in Glasgow School of ArtGlasgow School of ArtGlasgow School of Art is one of only two independent art schools in Scotland, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow.-History:It was founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Government School of Design. In 1853, it changed its name to The Glasgow School of Art. Initially it was located at 12 Ingram...
. He painted comparatively few works, and most were small scale and were of his relatives, friends and the local area. He did not exhibit a lot during his lifetime. One of his paintings in the Kelvingrove Art GalleriesKelvingrove Art Gallery and MuseumThe Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. The building houses one of Europe's great civic art collections...
is of the view from his flat in Maukinfauld Road - across open countryside to St Margaret's Church, Braifauld Street, with a train steaming up the line from Parkhead StationParkheadParkhead is a district in the East End of Glasgow. Its name comes from a small weaving hamlet at the meeting place of the Great Eastern Road and Westmuir Street. Duke Street and Springfield Road also meet there, to form a turreted Edwardian five-way junction at Parkhead Cross...
to TollcrossTollcross, GlasgowTollcross is an area north of the River Clyde in Glasgow and has a popular park which is famed for its international rose trials. It lies approximately a mile east of the neighbouring suburb of Parkhead, and just north of Braidfauld and south of Shettleston....
. His work can be seen at KelvingroveKelvingrove Art Gallery and MuseumThe Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. The building houses one of Europe's great civic art collections...
, at the National Gallery of ScotlandNational Gallery of ScotlandThe National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens...
in EdinburghEdinburghEdinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
, the Tate BritainTate BritainTate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...
in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, and as part of the Government Art CollectionGovernment Art CollectionThe United Kingdom's Government Art Collection places works of art in major Government buildings in the UK and around the world to promote British art, culture and history....
(GAC). Many can be viewed on-line. - John WheatleyJohn WheatleyJohn Wheatley was a Scottish socialist politician. He was a prominent figure of the Red Clydeside era.Wheatley was born in Bonmahon, County Waterford, Ireland, to Thomas and Johanna Wheatley. In 1876 the family moved to Braehead, Lanarkshire in Scotland...
(1869–1930), MPMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
, represented the ShettlestonShettlestonShettleston is a district in the east end of Glasgow in Scotland. Like many of the city's districts, Shettleston was originally a small village on its outer edge. Today Shettleston lies between the neighbouring districts of Parkhead to the west, and Baillieston to the east, and is about 2 and a...
constituency in the House of Commons. He was Minister for Health in 1924, in Ramsay MacdonaldRamsay MacDonaldJames Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....
's first LabourLabour Party (UK)The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
Government, when he passed the Housing Act mentioned above. He is buried in St Peter's Cemetery Dalbeth. - Jack HouseJack HouseJack House was a prolific and popular Scottish writer and broadcaster, with a significant attachment to the City of Glasgow.-East end:He was born in Tollcross, then technically outside of the Glasgow city boundaries...
(1906–1991) was a locally renowned journalist, historian and novelist. He was born in 13 Deerpark Gardens, on Tollcross Road, opposite the park, though he moved to Dennistoun when he was two. - John CairneyJohn CairneyJohn Cairney is a Scottish film and television actor.-Partial filmography:* Ill Met by Moonlight * Miracle in Soho * Windom's Way * A Night to Remember * Operation Bullshine...
(1930 -) film, stage and television actor, was born in 1930 and the family lived in a tenement flat at 20 Williamson Street, but was evacuated during the War. He is renowned the world over for his portrayal of Robert BurnsRobert BurnsRobert Burns was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide...
. He now lives in AucklandAucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. (See his website at). - Susan BairdSusan BairdSusan Baird Susan Baird Susan Baird (26 May 1940 – Maywas Labour Party Councillor for the Braidfauld ward of the City of Glasgow, Scotland. She served as the second female Lord Provost of the City from 1988 to 1992.*...
(1949- ) has represented Braidfauld since 1974 and was Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1988 and 1992. She lives in the constituency.
Population (2004)
Total 6,735
Number of Males 3,057 (45.4%)
Number of Females 3,678 (54.6%)
Electorate 5,026
By age
0-4 382 (5.7%)5-15 789 (14.7%)
16-29 1317 (19.6%)
30-44 1576 (23.4%)
45-59/64 1286 (19.1%)
60/65+ 1187 (17.6%)
Working age population by occupational sector
Higher Managerial & Professional 110 (2.7%)Lower Managerial & Professional 446 (10.9%)
Intermediate Occupations 361 (8.8%)
Small Empl. & Own Account W. 105 (2.6%)
Lower Superv. & Tech. Occupations 312 (7.6%)
Semi-routine Occupations 685 (16.7%)
Routine Occupations 623 (15.2%)
Never Worked/L.T. Unemployed 464 (11.3%)
Full-time Students & Other 995 (24.3%)
By tenure
Total Dwellings (2005) 3,597Owner Occupied 1,204 (33.5%)
Private Rented 201 (5.6%)
Glasgow Housing Association 1,589 (44.2%)
Other Social Rented 603 (16.8%)
By type
Total Dwellings (2001) 3,578Detached 62 (1.7%)
Semi-detached 389 (10.9%)
Terraced 443 (12.4%)
Flats and Others 2,684 (75.0%)
Car ownership
Total number of households (2001) 3347Households with no car 2278 (68.1%)
Households with 1+ car(s) 1069 (31.9%)
External links
- http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCouncil/Council_Committees/Councillors/ward45.htm gives a Council factsheet on Braidfauld.
- http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ - a map of 1865 of the Braidfauld area can be found by searching for « Braidfauld ».
- http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/ - click ‘browse scanned pages’ then search for « Barony » to see a facsimile of the Reverend Mr John Burns’ account for the First Statistical Account of Scotland (1791–99)
- http://www.electricscotland.com/history/glasgow/carmyle_kenmuir.htm - gives an extract from ‘Rambles Round Glasgow’ (1854) by Hugh Macdonald
- http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/ - for photographs and histories of the great houses on the Clyde (that is, Easterhill, Dalbeth, Westthorn and Belvidere)
- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gordon.adams1/GlasgowHistory/Books/ - for many resources on the history of Tollcross and Dalbeth
- http://www.hopkirk.org/hopkirk/Page122321.html - a family history site, containing a portrait an information on Thomas Hopkirk of Dalbeth
- http://www.davidbryce.org.uk/intro.html - a site dedicated to the architect of Tollcross House.
Paintings by John Quinton Pringle can be viewed on:-
- http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collections
- http://www.tate.org.uk/
- http://www.culture.gov.uk/about_dcms/gac.htm
Other resources
- BBC Scotland/ Carmichael, Kay - three part documentary on the Lilybank scheme, Glasgow 1977 (BBC archives)