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Jan 31, 2024 · Today we wanted to uncover the hidden history behind Maryhill. 1. Mary Hill of Maryhill. A little known fact is that Maryhill is in fact named after a real person - that in and of itself is no big surprise, Dennistoun of course is named after merchant Alexander Dennistoun. But get this, Maryhill is named after a woman called Mary Hill - who was ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Before that it was called Kelvindock, or Dry Dock. Here are 12 old photographs which show the changing face of Maryhill over generations. 1. Celtic Street. The number 75 tram emerging from the tram depot on Celtic Street in 1958. | Glasgow City Archives. 2.
- Declan Mcconville
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Jan 19, 2022 · There have been claims that Maryhill’s police force was desperately needed in the 1850s due the lawlessness at that time. This is probably an exaggeration, as is the common tale that the Maryhill district ‘the Butney’ was so named as it was populated by convicts choosing to work on the canals rather than face transportation to Botany Bay ...
- The Glass Industry
- The Kelvin Aqueduct
- The Botany
- Maryhill Burgh Halls
- Maryhill Docks
But a minimum of two pieces of evidence is required to make a case, and Maryhill has at least such in that. Like Venice, it was also the centre of the glass industry. Indeed Murano Street, overlooking a canal as important as any in Venice, was named after the Italian city?s main glass manufactory. In addition Maryhill was the location of one of the...
Until the Forth and Clyde canal came along, there was very little thereabouts apart from the rural estates of several leading Glasgow families – and some light industry such as paper making along the River Kelvin. But the Kelvin was soon superseded by the canal, the triumph of the latter symbolised by the mighty Kelvin Aqueduct built from 1787-90 w...
Maryhill was a wild place in the early years of the industrial revolution, and an area of the town consisting of lodging houses and public houses was known as The Botany, (Butney in local parlance and today commemorated in a greasy spoon joint called The Butney Bite). This area was possibly so-called as it produced so many souls who were destined f...
Many of the graves in the churchyard were desecrated by the over enthusiastic demolition squad, who flattened them into the general rubble when the church itself was demolished, and I have failed to locate Millar’s grave. These rubbled ruins lie opposite the Butney. But if Millar has no surviving commemoration, many of Maryhill’s other workers do, ...
On the left are soon seen Maryhill docks, locks and dry dock – with the associated Kelvin Aquedect- one of the biggest complex of canal construction associated with the entire feat of engineering a canal across Scotland. Still standing too is The White House, a pub dating from the days of canal construction. However a canalbank hotel built for thos...
Maryhill (Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc Màiri) [2] is an area in the north-west of Glasgow in Scotland.A former independent burgh and the heart of an eponymous local authority ward, its territory is bisected by Maryhill Road, part of the A81 road which runs for a distance of roughly three miles (five kilometres) between Glasgow city centre and the suburban town of Bearsden.
May 11, 2023 · In partnership with the Glasgow Times, our archivists are exploring Glasgow's fascinating history.This week, Nerys Tunnicliffe writes about Maryhill. Originally outside of the city boundaries Maryhill grew from lands of various gentry estates into a thriving village, then into a burgh, only being absorbed into Glasgow in 1891.
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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Maryhill like this: Maryhill, a police burgh in Barony parish, NW Lanarkshire, on the left bank of the river Kelvin, 3½ miles NNW of the centre of Glasgow, with which it is connected by tramway and by the Glasgow and Helensburgh section of the North British railway.
