SAW032180 SCOTLAND (1950). Glasgow, general view, showing British Dyewood Co. Ltd. Carntyne Dyewood Mills, Shettleston Road and Westmuir Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing west. This image has been produced from a crop marked negative.

Three air raid shelters

Parkhead Quoiting Ground. Quoiting was a traditional sport popular in industrial and farming communities. The game involved throwing heavy metal quoits or hoops towards a pin about 18-22 yards away. Many clubs had their own grounds but this one first appears on the OS maps in 1935. By the OS 1:1250 map (1954) the ground is no longer shown.

Sheddens Place prefabs, AIROH B2 type

One, of two, 2ndWW Communal Surface Blast Shelters.

Breakdown truck.

Glasgow Boot Co.

Barney McShanes, secondhand shop.

Coley Bros, Motor Engineers.

Caroline St.

Templetons Grocery Store.

Quarrybrae School annexe/dinner school with janitors house in background.

Parkhead Picture Palace (Three P's) ~ 1953.

Bowling Green at Southbank St, apparently there was a bowling green round about here at some point.

Oil And Tallow Works

Rigby St

British Dyewood Co (rear)

British Dyewood Co (front)

Map of Shettleston Sheddings 1948.

Advert for Parkhead Wash House opening.

What sits here at 2019 ~ Steam Hammer on Shettleston Road.

Woolworths Westmuir Street.

Mural that adorns this "gable end" as at 2019.

Beardmores, "Parkhead Forge"

City Bakeries.

Back Causeway from East Wellington St

Winning Row

According to this map I think this may be Parkhead Jnrs. first home ground somewhere roundabout here.

Parkhead Baths and "Steamie"

Parkhead Library

Grier Street

Workmans Hostel / Model

Sorby St

Tollcross Rd at Sorby St.

Rope Works

J.C. Watts

Lighting Department, used to store elevator vehicles and where the on foot workers skivved off to for a wee fly cuppa tea.

Junction Westmuir St / Crail St

my grans house 31 Dalton st

Phoenix Cabinet Works

Park and Patersons

Ward’s Bar, now demolished was known locally as ‘the daft shoap’ and reputedly had peever beds painted on the floor, and a horse is said to have drank beer at the bar.

This pub was originally called William Craib.The locals called it Craib's.

Dalton Street

Quarryknowe Street

Caroline Street

Forresters, played in here as a kid. Full of armoured cars, WWII gas masks and the occasional Grenade !

My Grans house

Born here, 1956

O'Kanes Bar : A crowd stand outside O'Kane's for the opening of the new refurbishment which took 3 months for the modernisation in 1974.

Anchorage Bar , 243 Westmuir Street ~ closed late 1980s

Original Helenslea Park (Parkhead Juniors) situated at Beattock Street and Powfoot Street

Travellers Yard

Lorry emerging from Quarryknowe Street

As 'clippedwings' quite rightly pointed out on 7th December, these trucks are not AEC Matadors but Fordson Thames 7V tipper trucks. I couldn't remove or edit my initial post so have put this in to clarify. Thanks.

1949 Morris Commercial FV.12/5 Flatbed

2 x 1940s AEC Mammoth Major's

Police phone-box.

Grier Street. No longer exists.

Parkhead Forge, Duke Street, Glasgow This works was founded in about 1837 by Reoch Bros & Co to make forgings from scrap iron. It was subsequently greatly extended by Rigby & Beardmore and William Beardmore & Co Ltd. During both World Wars it was an important munitions works. This shows a large machine shop built in 1905 and extended in 1914 to make artillery for use on the Western Front during World War I. The brick cladding covered a steel frame. The main part of the works was at the far end of this range. Under William Beardmore, Parkhead Forge became the nucleus of a vast industrial empire, with a workforce of over 100,000 at its peak. By the 1960s Parkhead was all that was left, making alloy steel, heavy forgings and rolling-mill rolls. The works closed in the 1980s and has almost all been demolished accept this one building (see pic) which today trades in spare car tyres. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

This shows part of the forge on the north side of East Wellington Street, from the south-east. This is 'F' machine shop, probably built in the 1890s, and a heavy machine shop used when built to machine gun barrels and other large steel forgings and castings. Beardmores became the largest munitions works in Scotland during both World Wars. After World War II the firm made, among other products, forged boiler-drums and work rolls for steel strip mills. The works closed in the 1980s, and most of the site is now a retail park, known as The Forge. This very large complex had its origins in a forge established in about 1837 by Reoch Brothers & Co to make forgings from scrap malleable iron. It was subsequently enormously enlarged by a series of partnerships, and under Sir William Beardmore became a major munitions works from the 1890s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

134 East Wellington Street, Stables

515-519 Shettleston Road

Parkhead Congregational Church (built 1879), 79 Westmuir Street

Parkhead Bus and Tram Depot, Tollcross Road

Parkhead Public School (built 1879), 135 Westmuir Street

Quarrybrae School (built 1904), 153 Crail Street

Crail Street, named after the village of the same name in Fife, originally known as Baird Street named after Robert Baird an oil and colour merchant.

Rigby Street

William Beardmore & Sons Rolling Mills

Glamis Road

Tollcross Road

Parkhead Steel Works, now the Forge Market car park

Helenvale Park

65C Parkhead Motive Power Depot coaling tower and yard.

j.c.watt ltd (later mckellar watt ltd)

sheddens villa

mansecroft garage

mansecroft cottage