This is illustrated by this quote from the time: "Shortly after four o'clock hundreds of children were on the scene and the commissioner who was in attendance had great difficulty keeping the children in order. They swarmed round the door like bees round a hive."
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The entrance to Shettleston Library in Glasgow. Opened in 1925 as part of an expansion of Glasgow libraries, it immediately proved very popular, especially with the local children.
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Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of #Shettleston, #Glasgow. A district in the east end of Glasgow which was originally a small village on its outer edge tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2012/04/old-...
The former Shettleston Cooperative Society Building on Pettigrew Street in Glasgow. Built in 1912, this is a gorgeous little building which is now home to the Shettleston Housing Association.
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The former employment exchange on Shettleston Road in Glasgow. Built by the Office of Public Works in 1930 in a stripped back classical style.
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In particular, the snarling head of the creature emerging from the curls of foliage is still clearly visible at the very top. Constructed as a Free Church in 1895, it was designed in a Gothic style by W.F MacGibbon with a front based on the 13th Century Dumblane Cathedral.
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It's been rather degraded over time, but there's just enough left of this carving on a spandrel of Shettleston Old Parish Church in Glasgow to see how beautiful it would originally have been.
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The hall was designed by W.F. MacGibbon, and was built around 1900.
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A rather wonderful ship-shaped weather vane on the top of the hall of the Shettleston Old Parish Church Hall on Killin Street in the East End of Glasgow.
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Built around 1900, this church was designed by W.G. Rowan in a distinctive Late Gothic style, but with Art Nouveau flourishes around the main doorway.
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The entrance to Eastbank Parish Church (now the Shettleston New Church) in the Shettleston area of Glasgow.
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Much of the former farm is now occupied by St Paul's Primary School and the surrounding modern houses, but its name remains, as do some of some of early 19th century farm buildings.
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However traces of many of these remain in the names of buildings, parks, streets and neighbourhoods. In this case, it's Egypt Farm, also known as little Egypt, on Dalness Street in the East End of Glasgow.
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Much of the land which now forms Glasgow was, not that long ago, countryside. As the city expanded relentlessly outwards during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it swallowed up countless country mansions and farms alike.
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The entrance to Shettleston Library in Glasgow. Opened in 1925 as part of an expansion of Glasgow libraries, it immediately proved very popular, especially with the local children.
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The central sculpture of Christ on the Cross was created by Jack Mortimer.
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The Church of Saint Paul on Shettleston Road in Glasgow. Created by the legendary Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, and constructed in 1958, it's a stunning example of modern church design.
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I love the shape of the parapets at the top of these tenement bay windows on Shettleston Road in the east of Glasgow.
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I love this little red sandstone building sandwiched between two older blonde sandstone ones on Tollcross Road in Glasgow. I'm presuming this was originally built as a shop with accommodation for the owner above it.
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Thr Art Deco style entrance to Eastmuir Masonic Lodge in Shettleston. It was constructed in 1929.
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The former Shettleston Cooperative Society Building on Pettigrew Street in Glasgow. Built in 1912, this is a gorgeous little building which is now home to the Shettleston Housing Association.
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