Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565194
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565194
SHETTLESTON
A mining and weaving village on the original low-level road to Edinburgh. The Grays of Carntyne and the McNairs, owners of Greenfield since 1759, were the principal coalmasters for several generations, Gray using wind-pumps before steam-driven pumps were introduced after 1768. The McNairs also owned Shettleston House, on the north side of Old Shettleston Road, opposite McNair Street. In 1904, the site became the North British Bottleworks, which closed in 1983. McFarlane Lang's 1925 biscuit factory in Clydeford Drive became part of United Biscuits in 1966 and is now McVitie's factory, employing about 1,000. Greenfield Colliery, like the others, was worked out by the 1930s. Part of the estate became a golf course, part is built on and the rest is Greenfield Park, north of Old Shettleston Road. Another local pit, known as 'Auld Prickie', was at Prickliesmuir. Shettleston was brought into Glasgow in 1912.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
