8 Albany Street

1918 - 1936 Thomas R G Flowers and Jessie Scott (neé Dalgleish)

While the records show that the wife of Thomas Flowers was living here, and that in 1920, she gave birth to a daughter, there is no listing for Thomas Flowers at the address until 1927. He was the son of a pickle manufacturer and in 1910, when he and Jessie married, described himself as ‘a gentleman farmer’ residing in Stow, so perhaps at this time they lived between the two places. He later worked as a solicitor.

1940s various residents

Residents around this time included five women and in 1943, a meeting of Women for Westminster was held in the house. Mrs Gael Tingle was appointed as organiser. Arrangements for a Spring conference were made, and it was agreed to start a speakers’ class at the house from that November.

1949 – 1970 Office of Central Paper Warehouse

The office of John Hogg Marshall, a paper merchant. The offices moved here from Number 33, having been there since 1939.

1970 – 1972 Office of Cairns and Robertson

This was a long established firm of solicitors, previously housed at Number 3, run for some years by George Allan and John Soper, in partnership, and latterly by George Allan alone. The firm was dissolved by the Law Society of Scotland following the discovery of embezzlement of client funds by Allan over the previous eight years by setting up a company, Albany Street Nominees, into which he transferred misappropriated clients' funds, Allan was jailed for four years for the embezzlement.

(Around) 1973 – McLeod and Travis

This was a Chartered Architects practice; the main architect being Cyril MacLeod. One of his buildings was the Scan Bookshop, part of this Cumbernauld new town development.