Old travel Blog photograph of vintage cars in South Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, Scotland. This part of Scotland was once in the historic parish of Cadder, originally lands granted by King William the Lion to the Bishop of Glasgow, Jocelin, in 1180. With the completion of the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1790, the area began to attract ironstone and coal mining industry. The area also continued to be a major centre for freestone quarrying during the 19th Century, supplying many major municipal building projects in Glasgow. The Glasgow tramway network was extended north from Springburn to Bishopbriggs in 1903. During the Second World War, the town was bombed by the Luftwaffe at around midnight on 7 April 1941. After the war, an unprecedented boost to the town's population came about as a result of the large scale house building programme. Bishopbriggs close geographic proximity to Glasgow now effectively makes it a suburb and commuter town of the city.
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