Help placing 2 old photos (Scotstoun/Scotstounhill)

[Timchilli]

Can anyone help me to place this view, which is only titled "Scotstoun West"? I think it may be a view of Dumbarton Road, with the railway to the right of view.



Also, this photo is captioned "Anniesland Road, Scotstounhill", but I can't figure out where exactly it was taken. Am I right in thinking that the 2 ornate villas between where the lady is walking have been pulled down, and this site is now Knightswood Shopping Centre?



Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tim

[dmf]

I think you are right with your second idea about Anniesland Road. Could your first photo be the junction of Dumbarton Road and Anniesland Road, where the Kingsway flats are now?


dmf

[scaryman2u]

It looks alot like Great Western Road.

[HollowHorn]

I agree with the 'Kingsway' theory.

[glasgowken]

The tram is post 1904, and assuming the photo has been coloured accurately it's on a red service.
So I would also agree it's the junction of Dumbarton Road and Anniesland Road/Kingsway, the tram is on the service that would later become the 9.

[yokerboy]

Anniesland Road: You are quite right to say that it is possible the the houses on the right were pulled down to make way for what is now Knightswood Shopping Centre,known local as the "Safeway" after the former suppermarket.

I remember as a you boy walking past these buildings on the right and even mucking around the derelicts. I can even recall running through the garden down to the railway at the bottom of them,obviously before the shopping centre was build. Some of the similar lovely houses still stand further along the rroad.

[Vinny the Mackem]

Not really a great deal in this for reference point purposes, but the curve in the road in the foreground and, if you look closely, the road at the very far end (Not sure if that would still be Kingsway or Anniesland Road at that bit) would make sense of the Anniesland Road/Knightswood Shopping Centre location.

Google maps comparison

http://goo.gl/maps/Jk6Pt

[Bridie]

They must have demolished a lot of those houses. I remember playing in one of them in the last row left shortly after the shopping centre was built. The house was in a sorry state and all the kids would risk their necks running through it.

Wonder how old the trees are and if the one in the original picture is still there?