Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566593
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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QUEEN'S PARK
Built before many of the secession churches re-united with the Church of Scotland, this small but expensive and salubrious residential district has many excellent but now redundant church buildings.
Thomas Crawford had built a house at Camphill in 1777 but, when the cotton manufacturer Robert Thomson bought the estate in 1798, the Camphill Mansion was built. His son Neale Thomson bought the adjoining lands of Pathhead Farm from the Maxwells of Nether Pollok, selling them to the City in 1857 for Queen's Park. When it opened in 1862, on the site of the 1568 Battle of Langside, the Park was named after Mary Queen of Sots, not the reigning Queen Victoria. John Carrick, the city Master of Works, who amended Paxton's Park design, prepared a layout of tenement streets centred on Victoria Road. The Camphill Mansion and estate were sold after Thomson's death to Hutchesons' Hospital, then in 1894 to the City, which added them to the Park. Today there is a model boating pond and there is a hill fort, probably of the iron age at Camp Hill. Across Langside Road are the many pitches of Queen's Park Recreation Grounds, totally devoted to football, as well as the Glass House (see p.00). When the city boundary was extended to the River Cart in 1891, the only open ground was around Clincarthill to the south east.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
