Glasgow, Dennistoun
General View (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Glasgow, Dennistoun
Classification General View (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dennistoun Estate
Canmore ID 72506
Site Number NS66NW 104
NGR NS 61369 65202
NGR Description centred NS 61369 65202
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/72506
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
DENNISTOUN
Easter and Wester Craigs belonged to George Hutcheson in 1652. Alexander Dennistoun built Golfhill House on part of the Craigs and, c.1850, he commissioned James Salmon to prepare a feuing plan for a private housing suburb called Broom Park, on the lands of Craig Park and Whitehill. Work started two years later, with villas at Wester Craigs, but the plan was soon abandoned, terraces and tenements being built north of Duke Street uphill towards Alexandra Parade, in the estate now called Dennistoun. Ten years later he bought lands of Annfield and Bellfield, parts of the Craigs south of Duke Street, from trustees for the late John Reid, to continue his development. These villas had been named after the wives of the original owners. The junction of Duke Street and Belgrove Street, shown on maps as King's Cross, has always been know locally as Bellgrove. Just beyond the eastern boundary of Dennistoun's lands, across Cumbernauld Road, Netherfield Chemical Works had been established by R & J Garroway on Haghill lands in 1817. They were major producers of sulphuric acid but now make cat litter. They were followed by other industrial works, the Glenpark Tan Works of 1864, Thomas Hinshelwood's Paint, Varnish and Oil Works in Glenpark Street, 1878 and Beattie's 1886 Dennistoun Bakery in Paton Street.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
