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© Baillieston Born 'n' Bred 2024
Origin: Gaelic for Broad Hill.
Garrowhill was mainly a new formed estate made out of bits of other lands, Barrachnie, North Baillieston and Springhill.
The street names used in Garrowhill fall into three categories:
1: Local and Historic names / Tree species
2: Maxwell, Scott-Maxwell related names
3: Henry Boot: Names and Houses areas in their native Yorkshire and English Midlands
Henry Boot Garden Estates who in partnership with John Maxwell Scott-Maxwell of Baillieston House (Laird/ Crown Land Commissioner) set up Garrowhill brickwork with G & J Paton in 1931 using the spoil from the Barrachnie Collieries to make bricks and mostly clay.
Henry Boot as part of the partnership with Scott-Maxwell must have had the condition in the contact where he could chose street names relating to Boot Family from various parts of Yorkshire mainly Sheffield, Riding and North Yorkshire. According to Census Data Henry Boot stayed at Baillieston House, the time would suggest to get the Garden Estate Project up and running.
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1. LOCAL NAMES / HISTORICAL
BEECH AVENUE, GARDENS. Originated from the trees that grew on either side of the avenue leading up to Garrowhill Park and House. It was originally named “Grove Drive” when it was the Main Avenue to Garrowhill House. (Old Maps). I found the term "Grove" was strange as the trees layout was as an "Avenue" and not a "Grove"*, which by definition is a small cluster or circle of trees.
Garrowhill House was a designed by architect Alexander "Greek" Thomson and built in 1858 and was originally to be the dower house for the widow of John Maxwell. However it did not turn out as planned as his wife Jessie passed away 9 years before John and the house was rented out to a Merchant David T. Boyd for £95 per year (~£6,000 2024) and later used as as office during the Garrowhill Garden Estate project and Henry Boot also lived in during the build.
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CAMP ROAD: Site of Camp Farm and Camp Colliery, A General Wade Camp and possibly Old Roman Road and Camp*,(*Source: Peter Boa History teacher and Headmaster at Baillieston JS School 1950s /60s) (Covered in Baillieston North)
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GARROWHILL DRIVE: Self explanatory.
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SPRINGHILL ROAD: From Springhill Farm. There was a spring fed stream known as the Garrowhill Burn that ran down from Garrowhill Park through the Garrowhill Estate and emerged from a culvert that ran under Glasgow Road in the north west corner of The Maxwell estate at what is now the Huntingtower / Glasgow Road junction. It ran round the west then south sides of the Baillieston House estate boundary to the shops on Old Wood Road and ran into a culvert. This area at the bottom on Bannerman School is still prone to flooding during periods of heavy rain, and probably still does.
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BARRACHNIE ROAD, DRIVE: Named from the area of Barrachnie. Etymology= Hill Farm.
As the last Ice Age retreated it exposed land Barrs as the advancing ice glaciers had acted like bulldozers shoving soil and rocks in there paths. When these retreated it left these Barrs. To the east and west we have Bargeddie, Barlanark, Barmulloch.
There is another possible Old Scots origin for the name when it is fragmented into three parts Bar / Rach / Nie can translate into Hill / Hunting dog / Horse.(see below*)
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WEIRWOOD AVENUE: Etymology= Dam on a stream in a wooded area
Back in the early 1900's the rows of sandstone houses on Glasgow Road just beyond the old Barrachnie Inn / now called The East End Fox were called Weirwood Park, it seems a strange name to call a building but back then it was the Land Owners / Lairds who dictated what things were named. No records list a person named "Weirwood" and the primary source of the name is simply lost in time. However the Land and Houses were called Weirwood Park and back in the 1700's and 1800's these Parks were Game Hunting Parks and the name change from "Barrachnie Inn" which historically was Glasgow Edinburgh coach stop to. "The East End Fox" suggests that.
In the Valuation rolls for 1895 in an area listed as "Ladyhill" (Now Burntbroom) this is what it states:
"Falconers, House, Field and Woodland Ladyhill Barrachnie: William Struthers rent for year £10. 10/- " (~£1,800 in 2024)
Weirwood Park is listed on old Valuation Rolls back to the mid 1850's and the listed proprietor is the Carrick-Buchanan's of Mt Vernon and Drumpellier.
In the 1930 just before they started to build the Garrowhill Garden Estate the Weirwood Park name was dropped. The Garrowhill Garden Estate was a proposition put by Henry Boot to John Maxwell Scott-Maxwell of Baillieston House just after WWI who had in 1901 inherited the Baillieston House estate aged 21.
The borderlines of these three lands changed so often through sales and inheritances it is complex in the extreme as some of the inheritances even in the case of John Scott of Lugar St Glasgow who inherited the lands from his maternal uncle John Maxwell due to the direct linage ending with no children, therefore as the only living male relative John Scott became "John Maxwell Scott-Maxwell". as a condition of the inheritance.
(data from Maxwell family tree and Valuation Rolls)
VIEWFIELD AVE / DRIVE Named after an old mansion in the area named Viewfield House (Old Maps)
2. JOHN MAXWELL SCOTT-MAXWELL FAMILY NAMES
MAXWELL AVENUE:. It was also the path between the Baillieston House and Garrowhill House
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MAXWELL DRIVE: Runs along the South of Garrowhill Park to the Thornbridge Road Roundabout.
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FLORIDA GARDENS: Named after JM Scott-Maxwell’s American novelist 1st wife Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell.
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Maxwell family names: Sons:- Ian “STEPHEN” CRESCENT , Peter “DOUGLAS” DRIVE, Denis “GORDON” AVENUE ,Daughter: HILARY DRIVE
The mystery is why he opted for the male middle names. I may have been a dual meaning to other relatives in the Maxwell families past.
(*From historical notes and family tree supplied by JMSM's grandson Douglas Scott-Maxwell, Melbourne)
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COATS CRESCENT
Tracing back the Scott-Maxwell family tree there is reference and notes relating to Archibald Coats.
Archibald Coats married Mary Buchannan whose Grandmother maiden name was Mary Maxwell who was married to George Buchanan. Coats famously was held hostage and to ransom by the Highland Army on there way to Bannockburn.
Archibald Coats daughter Cecilia married Stephen Maxwell, but the true Maxwell linage did not come from Stephen Maxwell who was a coppersmith of renown in Glasgow, but from Mary Maxwell-Buchannan. Major James Maxwell inherited the Lands of Baillieston from his grandmother Mary Maxwell-Buchanan.
(*From historical notes supplied by the Scott-Maxwell family)
3. HENRY BOOT NAMES
SUGWORTH AVE: Sugworth was Charles Boot home in the 1920’s and site of tower named Boot’s Folly
WHIRLOW ROAD / GDNS: Whirlow House once owned by the Boot family
HATHERSAGE AVE / DR Hathersage Hall once owned by the Boot Family
THORNBRIDGE ROAD / AVE: Thornbridge Hall bought by Charles Boot in 1929
BANNERCROSS AVE / DR Henry Boot head office in Sheffield.
BENTS ROAD: The Bents was a Boot family house within the Sugworth estate
BAKEWELL ROAD: Boot's Thornbridge House is in Bakewell.
RYECROFT DRIVE: Boots owned Ryecroft livery farm and stables in Sheffield.
HILLSBOROUGH ROAD/ DRV: Hillsborough the Sheffield Wednesday ground built by Boot and Boot sponsored events
(All above from researching Henry Boot & Co and the Boot Family history)
QUINTON GARDENS:
This is a strange one, a puzzle, and I as it did not relate to Scott-Maxwell, Henry Boot or a local feature apparent to us.
I visited my Aunt Mary Birrell back in 2002 who moved at the age of 10 or so to Dolan Street. I asked if there was ever any talk of the Romans in Baillieston, she replied 'Oh yes!'
She recalled a walk her father Wullie Birrell took her just after the moved from the old Muirside Hamlet to Dolan Street in the early 1930's before Garrowhill East was built. He took her a walk down an old path that led diagonally across the fields to roughly where I judged Quinton Gardens was built. She said It was a small circle of trees and he told her there was once a Roman Fort there.
I investigated and found I recalled a section in the 1950's book "The Rise of a Community" and it mentions an area on a 6 inch 1700's map that says "Incampment". This seems to be a common way of identifying old Roman Forts with and "I" instead of an "E" at the start.
It is also a fact that a well preserve Roman Harness was found in this area when the drains for Garrowhill were being dug.
What in also worth note is that the Roman Auxilia Cavalry were known as Greenshields, although it is a fact that there was a Councillor James Greenshields. was this just coincidence?
To the right is an article and written 130+ years ago about places using the name "Quinton".
SOUTH GARROWHILL / LADYHILL (Henry Boot) (1959/60)
JM Scott-Maxwell died in1951 however the plans for this south section of Garrowhill were drawn up back in the 1930's therefore he would have had some input into the street names.
LADYHILL DRIVE:
According to old Valuation Roles from 1900 to 1935 there was a L shaped house on Glasgow Road at Barrachnie Cross named Ladyhill House No 83. The Valuation Rolls indicate it was a flatted dwelling house with 8 rooms and to south on the other side of Glasgow Road a farm where Sherborne Park is now in Burntbroom was named Ladyhill Farm. The house vanishes after the 1935 Valuation Roll and it would be a fair assumption that the house was either demolished or renamed. (Verified on 1855 to1935 valuation rolls)
Authors comment: I find the location of Ladyhill Drive strange and it could be because this area of Barrachnie East was at one time known as Ladyhill. What is certain is that there was a Ladyhill Farm, the census and valuation Rolls records prove that, but what we don't know is the size of the farm, and I suspect due to where Ladyhill drive is it covered the strip of from the old line of Mount Vernon Avenue, Glasgow Road, Part Muirside Road and Old Wood Road to Broom (Huntingtower).
The name would also have satisfied Henry Boot's street name themes too as there was a Ladyhill Park in Allerton in West Yorkshire.
There are many places in the UK named LADYHILL, sometimes written LADY HILL. Some websites say that it came from Mary Queen of Scots when she was imprisoned at Castle Bolton. This would go someway to explain the next estate name selection to be used in Broom / Huntingtower which can be linked to Mary Queen of Scots. What is also curious is that many streets in Bargeddie relate to Mary Queen of Scots. This will be covered in my Bargeddie page.
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This is a 1950 RAF aerial photo that shows a mysterious ghost shape in the field where the Ladyhill estate was built in 1959/60. What was it?
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The Baillieston Colliery named"The Jessie" after John Maxwell's wife was in this approximate location
Comment: The secondary streets in LADYHILL kept the theme of types of tree species as was Old Wood Road. When Ladyhill Drive was opened it joined with Old Wood Road at its South end. The Ladyhill residents complained about the through traffic and poles were erected to make it a cul-de-sac. I know this as I lived on Old Wood Road across from the poles from 1958 to 1972 before moving to Broomhouse. Those poles are still there.
Rowandale : Named after areas and houses in the Yorkshire Dales.
Willowdale: As above
Rosedale: As Above
(All above from researching Henry Boot & Co and the Boot Family)
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