Built by Andrew McIntyre, who bought the land in 1880, but it wasn't ready until 1886. McIntyre was previously a gold digger present at the "birth of Australian democracy", when his jailing for rioting led to an armed insurrection known as the Eureka Stockade.
Thursday week at The Deep End if you're interested. Book through Eventbrite as per below.
The story of 12 Marywood Square, Strathbungo, featuring a vanishing jeweller, anti-German riots in Cincinnati, the Swedenborgian Church, the grease that launched the Queen Mary, ironmongery & Aston Villa, and tea shops to rival Miss Cranston.
#Strathbungo #househistory #glasgow
Portrait, trim white hair, big tash, jacket & tie, no bowler though.
This guy.
Gent in bowler amongst the dignitaries in the foreground, possibly JB Hamilton?
Wondering if this guy is JB Hamilton, deputy tramway manager. He was a qualified vet, who presumably was there to care for the horses, but in a genius bit of lateral thinking, did so by pioneering the electrification of the network.
More importantly, I want to see the map!
You can read the full history of 6 Queen Square here. And the price history goes back 150 years further than Rightmove…
bygone.bungoblog.com/wp/6-queen-s...
Strathbungo Parish Church, Scots Gothic revival with a crown steeple. The church subsequently fell into disrepair and was largely demolished after the roof was lost. The tower and facade have been preserved with flats behind.
However, Rev McMillan’s revival saw the creation of a new Strathbungo parish in 1879, and his fellow disgruntled residents of Strathbungo’s Squares saw that they were included. He then rebuilt the church in 1877-78. It still survives partially (frontage and tower). Both churches are now flats.
Queen's Park Church 1872-3, Douglas & Sellars, Gothic style with tall steeple, facing the recreation ground. Later Queen's Park High, then Crosshill Queen's Park. Now converted to flats.
They built a new church at 40 Queen’s Drive in 1872-73. It was the first CoS parish church in the neighbourhood (Strathbungo was still technically a Chapel of Ease in Govan Parish) and they took the fledgling Strathbungo suburb with them into the new parish.
Rev McMillan, white-haired, trim white beard, in dog collar, almost smiling - looking happier than the average Scottish minister.
The most interesting resident was the Rev Robert McMillan, son of an Irish weaver. He was instrumental in the revival of Strathbungo Church. Some of the congregation were so frustrated by the previous minister, ageing and infirm, that they founded a neighbouring parish, Queen’s Park.
Large pile of old legal documents, deeds, wills, sale agreements, etc
Notable for the most complete set of deeds and associated documents I have come across, revealing not only the owners, but how house purchases were financed in years gone by, and how rampant house price inflation is a new phenomenon.
Georgian-style blond sandstone 3-storey end of terrace houses, 4 & 6 Queen Square
A new house history – 6 Queen Square, Strathbungo. Home to two Reverends, a doctor, a manufacturer of dog-eared spikes (they sound a bit crap, but essential for railways apparently), then for 60 years a lawyer’s family.
#househistory #glasgow #strathbungo
The handler of the stolen goods. Seems fair.
Loaned by whom?
The perils of AI slop in a thread. Couldn't agree more.
Curious bunch, the Swedenborgians. Their church on Queen's Drive, Strathbungo, is now flats.
Blond sandstone terraced housing in Queens Square
The house history derived from these will be appearing on bygone.bungoblog.com shortly.
Two folders full of old house deeds from Strathbungo
This particular set was spotted by a friend about to go into a solicitor’s bin, and passed to me. Not for the first time. If you still have yours, hang on to them, or if you really don’t want them, (and they are from Strathbungo) give them to me for safe keeping. I now have a small library of them!
James "Black" Watson, on account of his slightly wild black hair and beard, in a wide-brimmed black hat. Identified from deeds as the builder of the last of the four Pollokshaws Road Tenements that front Strathbungo (between Marywood Sq and Vennard Gardens).
My dating of the buildings in Strathbungo, and identifying of the builders, has been mainly from seeking out old deeds. Which is why it’s such a shame that now we have a digital land registry, these are deemed worthless and get discarded.
Pile of old legal documents on a table
These are the deeds for a house in Queen Square, #Strathbungo, a particularly complete set, including wills and financial records. While not always easy to decipher, they provide a unique insight into the history of a house, and a neighbourhood.
#deeds #househistory #glasgow #history #architecture
If that sounds improbable, you're right. It was actually Thatchers Gold. My apologies.
Just saw my first Strathbungo hedgehog 🦔. So Glaswegian, it was drinking a can of Magners Cider.
This is hilarious. Everyone to Kenmure Street has a lot to answer for 😂
I should have credited the Trades House Library. They have a couple of his books digitised. www.tradeshouselibrary.org/apps/search?...
I was interviewed for a job at the Vic in that very building. I was successful, which explains my presence in Glasgow for the last 27 years 😄
OS Map of 1910, showing location of artist relative to flagpole, Queens Park House and Bandstand, off to the east by Cathcart Road
The artist appears to have placed himself on the hillside above Cathcart Road (now Florida Avenue). The Cathcart Railway passes just below Cathcart Road but out of sight.
Queens Park House in 2008 (Streetview). Red sandstone house with porch to side, bay window to front, part obscured by trees.
Portrait of Ebenezer Duncan (rcpsg.ac.uk)
...of this otherwise largely undeveloped scene is Queens Park House. Built of red sandstone about 1895 as a home for Ebenezer Duncan, a founder of the Viccy and its senior physician, it became offices for the hospital, but was demolished during the Sanctuary redevelopment.
"Langside" drawn by TCF Brotchie for his "The Battlefields of Scotland". Fileds in foreground, recreation ground with footballers in mid ground, Camphill and flagpole in distance. Victoria Infirmary just visible to left, large house in centre. Music illustrated blaring from the bandstand, as rays projecting into the sky.
Just discovered this delightful view of Queens Park from c 1913, with the flagpole in the centre background. Noise is shown coming from the bandstand to the right. The Victoria infirmary is visible to the left. The large house in the centre...
#Glasgow #Langside #History #VictoriaInfirmary
