spw053451 SCOTLAND (1937). General view, Springboig, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1937. An oblique aerial photograph, taken facing east.

St. Paul/s Primary School

The muck

Originally Archers nursery.

Fleet Street

The Smugglers Inn.

The Mailcoach inn Hamilton road.

Boghall

Old wood road.

Barrachnie brickworks Henry Boots

Broomhouse nurseries

Boghall station

Broomhouse station

The Gables.

Approximate location of this tram heading out to Baillieston.

Barrachnie Inn

The Kirk House, circa. 1939

Shettleston Harriers

The Clachan (1991)

Eastmuir Street looking westward. About 1904. At this period the section of Shettleston Road from Fingask Street to Annick Street was known as Eastmuir Street. In the photograph James Stevenson's public house is now the courtyard of Lodge Eastmuir No.1126 and the adjacent tenement 1527-1541 Shettleston Road.

The Gartocher Bar. 1991.

The Sheiling Bar, August 2005. closed down.

St. Serf’s Episcopal Church – about 1960.

The Railway Tavern. 1930s

The Kirk with graveyard. Note the Kirkhouse Inn on the left.

Sandyhills Farm outbuildings

Sandyhills House

Approx site of St Francis Primary School

Huntingtower Estate, now Bannerman School

Broomhouse Station: This station was closed to passengers back on 24/9/27 (goods on 1/9/53), but passenger trains continued to Bothwell until 4/7/55. However, traffic of some sort was evidently still passing in 1961.

Baillieston Road/Carrick Drive

Sandyhills Parish Church, now demolished and replaced.

This photograph from this spot in Sandyhills Road shows the huge tower blocks now towering above the semi-detached cottages below.

Grantlee Terrace

Forbes - Newsagents and Tobacconists, 1406 Shettleston Road - about 1917. Robert Forbes standing in the doorway of shop he took over in 1917 and opened as a Newsagent and Tobacconist and which was run by the Forbes family over three generations. The shop stood at the corner of Killin Street and Shettleston Road and the street names on the side of the shop wall show that Killin Street was previously Dalree Street and before that Church Road.

The Grange - about 1914. On the left the sleeper fence along the railway cutting and in the distance the bridge taking Sandyhills Road over the railway line A Large house, which due to to its close proximity to the old Shettleston to Hamilton railway line, (the Glasgow city boundary for many years) was often referred to as the last house in Shettleston. The picture shows 'The Grange' and how it looks today, the bungalow on the left in Loch Laidon St being the approximate location of the old Grange house.

225 Hamilton Road. The new Children’s Hospital at Oakpark, Mount Vernon was opened on October 5, 1921 by Thomas Thornton Macklin Dishington, Patrick, Fairlea, and Adam Lees and Lady Blythswood, in the unavoidable absence of HRH Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. The building has since been demolished and replaced by flats, though the entrance gate survives. The picture shows the gate as it was then and how it looks today.

'The Cottage' at 221 Hamilton Road a large house which became the Golden Gates Hotel and later the Stakis Mount Vernon Hotel, now demolished.

Gartocher Road

Railway line running under Mount Vernon Avenue, this line carried on through Mt Vernon, under Shettleston Road and over the bridge at Gartocher Road

Elizabeth Lodge, Sandyhills Road

Shettleston Old Parish Church, Killin Street

Barrachnie Inn, Garrowhill