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MAIN STREET: Common name for a connecting street. They were usually wide for market stalls, like the wide section at Baillieston Cross.
Articles in the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser (A&CA) list results from Charity Bazaars at Baillieston Cross in the early 1900's
MARTIN CRESCENT: Local Councillor. James (Jimmy) Martin. Verified from newspaper articles 1900-1910 (ref: A&CA)
ROBERTSON TERRACE: Councillor John Robertson. Verified from newspaper articles 1910-1918 (ref: A&CA)
GREENSHIELDS ROAD : Baillieston District Councillor John Greenshields late 1920 (ref A&CA)
DOLAN STREET: Mayor of Glasgow Sir Patrick J. Dollan also born in Baillieston and was also a Baillieston Councillor, Glasgow Lord Provost 1938 - 1941.
The single L has always been a bit of a mystery, and the only things that it could really be down to is that in many old press, newspaper articles it was spelt with a single L. up to the point where he became Lord Provost of Glasgow, yet LL on his birth, marriage and death cert? There is actually no one else it could be.
He was called "Paddy" by locals and despite being a Catholic in a Protestant community he helped people, fought for public toilets, fought for coal miners, which for a time he was until he educated his way out of it and became a journalist, a councillor, and MP and then Lord Provost of Glasgow.
At a ILP (Independent Labour Party) meeting we stated that coalminers did not pay income tax as they were treated like slaves to their Coalmasters, and indeed were bought and sold like slaves when the Coal Mine was sold. Patrick was definitely one of the main protagonists in the early days in the nationalising of Britain's coal industry, the NCB, which happened just after WW2 in 1947.
(Sourced from public records / A&CA/ Virtual Mitchell)
BUCHANAN STREET:
Andrew Buchanan of Mount Vernon owned large areas of land in the western old Monklands and indeed donated the land for the building of St John's Church which was opened in1850.
DYKE STREET: Marked the boundary of the west boundary of the Rhinsdale estate.
The Rev Inglis of St Johns Church commented in his report for the Third Statistical Account of 1960 (In Baillieston Library) that old parishioners often commented that there was once talk of a roman temporary wall (Dyke and Ditch) that ran where the current Edinburgh Road is. I have read this in a article Rev Inglis that was in Baillieston Library in1998. I went back to photocopy it in 2003 but this and a file of old local maps were no longer there.
CAMP ROAD:
South of Camp Road a Roy 18th century map refers to an “Incampment”, spelt “I” rather than and “E” .
Later in the circa mid 1880-1930 it was also the site of a workers camp for the Camp Colliery. (Map data)
Where the old Baillieston Junior Secondary School was, and a scrapyard yard between the school and Longlee Aluminum recycling plant were two places named "Camphill" and "Old Camp"
History teacher, and later Headmaster of Baillieston Junior Secondary School Peter Boa, often referred to Camp Road being named so because there was a Roman road there. It is also worth a mention the Mr Boa also owned land in Baillieston and Crosshill, so he would have had knowledge of such sites. (The A&CA listed his mother at bazaars on Baillieston Main Street c1890)
LONGLEE Scots Etymology translates to a Long Meadow,
History: This area was the site of the Longlee Aluminium works. It was set up during WW2 as an aluminium recycling plant for the war effort “Pots and Pans make Spitfires and Hurricanes.” The fact that It is not on OS maps surveyed on maps before 1939, but appears on OS maps surveyed post war bears this out. There was also another old area called Broadlees to the north of this where St. Bridget's was built..
SANDFORD GARDENS: Location of Sandford Cottages weavers and later miners row.(from old maps)
It might be coincidence but William French who was once the owner of the Baillieston House Estate owned a mansion called SANDFORD at Kelvinside in Glasgow circa 1780.
SCOTT STREET: The Scott family the last owners of the Daldowie estate who sold this land to Lanarkshire County Council (Old Valuation Roll data). Worth note is that the Lands of Daldowie ended up in three parts East, West and Greenoakhill.
MAXWELL STREET Named after Maxwell family of Baillieston House at the time of John Maxwell c1890. Scott-Maxwell as part of the Garrowhill development donated a strip land at the top of Maxwell Street which was at the extreme East end of Garrowhill c1930. In all probability it was to to put a sufficient space (~100mtrs) between the School and his housing scheme.