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kilted_jockey wrote:

Mori wrote:I remember the railings being there from 1965 onwards, my dads shop was on the corner of Ardgowan and Pollok st untill 68 before served with a compulsary purchase order by the council to make way for the M8.
My dad moved to another empty shop unit on the corner of watt st for another few years untill that was served with the order for demolition too for the M8.

The gap sites like the one in the 2nd pic started to appear around that area during the late 60s onwards to make way for the M8, i'm not sure if that gap is a post ww2 gap site.

I think There used to be a pub called the Red Hackle around there somewhere, Pollok Snacks chip shop also on Paisley rd in front of the kingston halls.

Guess the name of the shop was called Akbars then?

Was born at 48 Pollok St. 1958 right in the centre of the street, where the postcard picture was taken.

Mori wrote:

kilted_jockey wrote:

Mori wrote:I remember the railings being there from 1965 onwards, my dads shop was on the corner of Ardgowan and Pollok st untill 68 before served with a compulsary purchase order by the council to make way for the M8.
My dad moved to another empty shop unit on the corner of watt st for another few years untill that was served with the order for demolition too for the M8.

The gap sites like the one in the 2nd pic started to appear around that area during the late 60s onwards to make way for the M8, i'm not sure if that gap is a post ww2 gap site.

I think There used to be a pub called the Red Hackle around there somewhere, Pollok Snacks chip shop also on Paisley rd in front of the kingston halls.

Guess the name of the shop was called Akbars then?

Was born at 48 Pollok St. 1958 right in the centre of the street, where the postcard picture was taken.

Christ on a bike!

Some of my earliest memories are of being handed sweeties by Akbar. He and my father got on really well.

My first home as an infant was 101 Ardgowan Street.

What a wee gem to find here. Thanks people.


Yes it was Akbars, Akbar was my dads nephew who was a partner with my dad in the business, i helped out at the weekends by standing on a wooden ginger crate to serve the customers.

Lost_Soul wrote:Great site and Topic.

Was the shop on the corner of Ardgowan St and Watt St? I seem to remember being sent there to get some messages and was there a scrap yard nearby?

I also seem to remember a bakers/shop on the middle block but on the Houston St side where you could get broken biscuits in a bag. Anyone else remember?

I'm doing the family history and was looking for info or photos on Pollok St. I lived in Pollok St around 1965 when I was about 4 and lived in the middle block, not sure of the number, opposite the Maxwell church where i joined the Boys Brigade, I think. Went to Scotland St school. I remember building dens with old doors from somewhere against the midden houses and the council coming to knock them down. Playing football and using washing line poles as goals. We moved out I was about 7/8 to a new housing estate in Kilmarnock called New Farm Loch.

My memory isn't that good at the moment, so things might be muddled, hence the queries.

Schiehallion wrote:

HollowHorn wrote:I had already rejected this photo from the VM as a mistaken location, but whilst looking through Andrew J. McMahon’s book, ’A History of Kinning Park & District’ I discovered that according to him, the middle section of Pollok St. did not have gardens / islands. He has it captioned as:
“Pollok St. looking North”
I struggle to see it and I can’t explain the bridge at the top of the street , most confusing.
Looking back at the aerial photograph above though, it clearly shows each of the three sections had their own gardens.

Is McMahon's book in the Mitchell HH? Whether it is or isn't, I'd say it's a case of a mistake being compounded between VM and the book. I'd say there is no way that is Pollok St in the photo. I reckon someone has got confused by the similar types of tenement with the portico-style entrances. I'd assume these are Alexander Thomson's.

I cannot believe a residential street like Pollok St would've had traffic lights in those days. The volume of traffic wouldn't have justified it. It looks more like a stretch of Argyle St or somewhere like that.

isamck wrote:Is McMahon's book in the Mitchell HH? Whether it is or isn't, I'd say it's a case of a mistake being compounded between VM and the book. I'd say there is no way that is Pollok St in the photo. I reckon someone has got confused by the similar types of tenement with the portico-style entrances. I'd assume these are Alexander Thomson's.

I cannot believe a residential street like Pollok St would've had traffic lights in those days. The volume of traffic wouldn't have justified it. It looks more like a stretch of Argyle St or somewhere like that.

Josef wrote:

isamck wrote:Is McMahon's book in the Mitchell HH? Whether it is or isn't, I'd say it's a case of a mistake being compounded between VM and the book. I'd say there is no way that is Pollok St in the photo. I reckon someone has got confused by the similar types of tenement with the portico-style entrances. I'd assume these are Alexander Thomson's.

I cannot believe a residential street like Pollok St would've had traffic lights in those days. The volume of traffic wouldn't have justified it. It looks more like a stretch of Argyle St or somewhere like that.

Two days and no reply to this? Come on, folks, you're letting the side down.