Glasgow, Pollokshields

POLLOKSHIELDS WEST

The feuing of St Andrew's Drive started in 1851 and the road was lined with villas by the 1860s. When the area north of Nithsdale Road and east of Albert Drive was built up, the Burgh of West Pollokshields was created in 1875, with a population of 1,518. Shields Road was extended south of Albert Road in 1870 and more villas were built from the 1880s, by which time there were more than 400 villas. Between 1888 and 1907 James Marr built 58 villas to designs by Alexander Petrie, while George Hamilton built another 68 by Fryers & Penman, who also designed a group of 10 at Whittinghame Gardens, Anniesland. While the architects for many of the villas are as yet unidentified, clearly they followed the fashion published locally by Blackie & Sons in Villa and Cottage Architecture (first edition, 1868), or earlier in John Claudius Loudon's Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture (first published in 1833). The Burgh of Pollokshields West was also annexed by Glasgow in 1891. Land to the south of Maxwell Park and in the extreme west was developed in the 1890s and 1900s. Haggs Castle was one of the Maxwell residences, built in 1585 on the seven merk lands of Govan, Shiels and Haggs, feued by John Maxwell of Nether Pollok from Archbishop Boyd in 1581, although John had already been a heritable rentaller of these lands before the Reformation

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk