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Life around the mill in Partick and in Dunaskin Street (was also known as Newton Street) was something children of today would not know or understand. I should know I had hundreds of stories told to me by my great grandmother. We all lived there(Dunaskin St/Church Street and the mill) in two rows of tenements now gone. I guess not too many people know that Dunaskin (Newton St) was built on a grave yard. Not the small grave yard mentioned in the newsletter here. I remember going down to the factors office to pay my great gran's rent and looking at the rent book and seeing a name and city and country as to who owned the buildings then. From New York, USA. Sorry this is such a long email but when I see and hear what has been happening to the people I knew and their accommodation it must be very frightening for the old people that are left with only memories. regards Cate.
http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk/out/partickstory.php
Yorkhill Hospital has yet to be built. The area of land to the left of the river at centre was called 'Bunhouse Grounds' and is now occupied by the Kelvin Hall and Museum of Transport. To the right, either side of the River Kelvin, are Regent and Scotstoun Mills. Mills had been established in Partick for hundreds of years and those along the Kelvin produced a wide variety of material such as flint, timber and paper.
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/mo ... e2004.html
Partick Central Station was built by the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway Co in the 1890s. The railway line ran along the north bank of the Clyde, from Stobcross to Dumbarton via bustling industrial centres such as Scotsoun, Yoker, Clydebank and Bowling. The station was renamed Kelvin Hall in 1959. Passenger and general goods services ceased in 1964 but the sidings remained open until 1978 serving an oil depot and scrap metal merchant. The station building on the road bridge became a workshop and then an auction hall, and the goods yard served as a site for travelling people. In 2004 there are plans to build a supermarket there.
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/
Lone Groover wrote:This road was also known as "The Quarry" - We don't know why.
Ancient Urns.—In 1832, seven of these were found by some
workmen, when baring the surface of a quarry near Partick, on the
property of Mr Bogle of Gilmorehill. One was broken by the
workmen before they knew what it was. The other six were found
on the two succeeding days. They were not more than three feet
below the surface of the ground, and placed within a few feet of
one another. Some of them are 14 inches high, 10 inches in diameter
at the top, and 4 inches at the bottom. The others are
smaller, but of the same form. The fragments of bones which
were found in them were placed irregularly one above the other.
They contained likewise a small portion of hair.
Clicky
In 1868 a small group of fossilised trees was uncovered at Gilmorehill - just a few hundred yards away from where I am sitting now writing this - in the heart of the West End. They where discovered during the quarrying for the Glasgow University building but sebsequent quarrying unfortunately destroyed the fossils. Information for this page was obtained from Alastair Gunnings great little book 'The Fossil Grove' published by Glasgow Museums.
http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk/out/gal ... silgv.html
it was really in dunaskin Sreet " commonly known as the " Quarry"
http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/lofiv ... p/f65.html
Curiously St Simon's Church used to be called St Peter's. It was founded in 1855 by Fr Daniel Gallaugher, famous as the priest who taught David Livingstone Latin. He had been asked to build a church in the West End of Glasgow which he completed in (Partick) Bridge St in 1858, calling it St Peter's. He died in 1885 and is buried in Greenock.
By the end of the century the little church was not big enough and a large new one was built by Pugin on the other side of Dumbarton Rd in Hyndland St. This was opened in 1903 and the original church was left closed for about 10 years after which it was used as a parish hall for some time. It reopened as a chapel of ease for Sunday Mass in 1923 and was thereafter referred to simply as "the Bridge St Chapel".
Immediately after the Second World War the Archdiocese of Glasgow, responding to population increase, was opening many new parishes. A site was sought for the south side of Dumbarton Rd in the Yorkhill area. When this proved impossible the decision was taken to reopen the Bridge St building as a parish in its own right with the title St Simon's. The date of erection of the parish is 12 April 1946 and Rev Thomas Egan was officially appointed parish priest 18 May. After 2 years he was succeeded by Fr George Aylward who was replaced in 1950 by Fr Donal Robertson, curate in St Peter's.
When Fr Robertson died in 1972 all the surrounding tenements had been demolished and the Archdiocese again considered closing the building. However the diocesan archivist, Fr Patrick Tierney, had been himself a parishioner of St Simon's and he volunteered to restore it. He also invited back the Polish Chaplaincy which had used it during the World War 2 for the Polish Free Army stationed in Yorkhill Barracks. Fr Tierney died in 1993 and was replaced by Fr John Chalmers.
During the following decade the future of the church was yet again questioned as the area was renovated with expensive new flats. However some of these were carefully designed around the old building which again is undergoing restoration.
http://www.stsimonspartick.org.uk/
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