Old Photographs Of Pollokshields Glasgow Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Pollokshields, Scottish Gaelic: Buthan Phollaig, an area in the Southside of Glasgow. Pollokshields was established by the Stirling Maxwell family in 1849, and was set out or feued by the Edinburgh architect David Rhind. Many well known Glaswegian architects contributed to its development and, amongst others, it contains villas by Alexander Greek Thomson. There are several contributions by contemporaries of Charles Rennie Mackintosh including a series of good Glasgow style tenements by the architect H. E. Clifford. The Pollokshields Burgh Hall stands at the edge of Maxwell Park. Designed by Henry Edward Clifford and constructed in 17th century Scottish Baronial style, it was opened in 1890 by Sir John Stirling Maxwell as a Masonic Meeting Place and for the use of the community but served the independent burgh of Pollokshields only until 1891. The Hamilton Memorial Fountain in Maxwell Park was constructed by the Doulton Company in the famous Italian white marble from Carrara in Tuscany. It is a memorial to John Hamilton, who hunted in the area when the land was a marsh. The fountain was demolished in 1989. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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