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Pages in category "Housing estates in Glasgow" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Huntershill Village, Crowhill Road pedestrian access. Huntershill Village is located opposite Huntershill House at the top of Crowhill Road in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Huntershill house was built by a Glasgow merchant named James Martin. It was situated beside the old post road from Glasgow to Stirling (Crowhill Road) which, however, ceased to be a main road during the 1790s when the Inchbelly Turnpike trustees built a new road on the present Kirkintilloch Road alignment.
A typical Glasgow tenement block. Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has several distinct styles of residential buildings.Building styles reflect historical trends, such as rapid population growth in the 18th and 19th centuries, deindustrialisation and growing poverty in the late 20th century, and civic rebound in the 21st century.
Blackhill was built on a country golf course (see Glasgow Golf Club), [4] near the Monkland Canal with its Blackhill Locks. [5] Many early residents report summers of country rambles, often along the Molendinar Burn – now the only place this historic burn is still visible on the surface – to the loch at Hogganfield .
Deaconsbank is a neighbourhood in the Scottish city of Glasgow.It is situated south of the River Clyde.The main feature of the area, which falls into the Greater Pollok ward of Glasgow City Council and directly borders the East Renfrewshire council region, [1] is an estate of around 639 private houses built in the late 1970s by Barratt Developments, prior to which the area was open farmland. [2]
Thomas Muir was born above his father's grocers shop on the High Street of Glasgow. His father, James Muir, was the son of the 'bonnet laird' of Birdston in Milton of Campsie, he married Margaret Smith and they had two children Thomas and Janet. As a younger son James Muir had little prospect of inheriting his father's property.
Merrylee is a neighbourhood in the Scottish city of Glasgow.It is situated south of the River Clyde within the Newlands/Auldburn ward [1] surrounded by other residential areas: Newlands, Cathcart and Muirend, and is a housing scheme consisting of mostly ex-local authority homes (terraced houses and three-and four-storey tenements) constructed in the 1950s and 60s.