Harlow Street, Port Dundas

[Goliath]

Hi, I've searched looking for an existing thread, but can't see one, so....

Does anyone know where Harlow Street was? I believe it was in the Port Dundas area in the early 1900s, would anyone be able to pinpoint where it was more precisely?

Thanks in advance for any info!

[Glesga_Steve]

I think Swan Street is the modern day equivalent of Harlow Street - I'm pretty certain that Swan Street occupies the exact same stretch of land that Harlow Street did.

EDIT: Just saw VT's post and on checking the 1933 map, he's clearly right.

[Vinegar Tom]

Hi Goliath,

I can find a Harlaw street on the 1933 OS sheet ( looks like a short street of tenements. The site now lies under the M8, with the location being somewhere between the still existing streets of Townsend Street and Canal Street which are easy enough to locate on google earth.

[Lucky Poet]

It can't be Swan Street, as that's on here and others from the 1890s: >Map<

The useful maps on there only go up to about 1895, so I can only assume they renamed one of the other streets on there at some point soon after. They'd certainly done it by 1900, as there's some reference to it in the Edinburgh Gazette in 1900. Others have certainly changed, as Townsend Street was Crawford Street, and Payne Street was Bank Street. Does the Harlaw St on yer map match any of them, VT?

[Vinegar Tom]

The streets had already been renamed by the time of the 1933 revision, but Harlaw Street basically links Rae Street and Swan Street on the earlier map, if a bit off-set each end at Canal Streeet and Kessock Street.

[Lucky Poet]

That's presumably it, then. What a team

[Vinegar Tom]

Arf! As long as it was Harlaw Street and not Harlow Street that Goliath was looking for.

[Lucky Poet]

Well, there is that. It looks very likely then. (Though that does depend on the map having a misprint; mind you, mapmakers are know for adding deliberate errors to catch out copiers. Not that that really proves anything here, but y'know...)

[Goliath]

Thanks very much for the help, folks, very much appreciated!