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I'm working with some folk on a project to list streets in Scotland with a military connection. We decided to do this when we learned that there are three streets in Carluke named after the men of the village who won the Victoria Cross.

Craigneuk also has three streets named after the seiges of Mafeking, Ladysmith and Kimberley.

So we're trying to find more of them.

Off the top of my head I can think of Wellington Street and Crimea Street, but there must be plenty more in Glasgow and the surrounding area.

Any ideas?

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Can I get a fourth stripe then?

Its in the post

Some stuff in this thread too

Shipka Pass, Barrack St

viewtopic.php?t=209&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=shipka&start=0

St Vincent Street
Corunna Street
West Nile Street
Wellington Street

spring to mind.

Haven't we done this, or similar, before?

Top of the head:
Hope Street
St Vincent Street
West Nile Street
Wellington Street
Nelson Street
Wallace Street
Earl Haig Road
Mafeking Street

Or you could trawl through here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gordon.adams1/GlasgowHistory/StreetNames.htm

I always thought this stuff about Stockwell Street was interesting...



...with reasonably good military references too!

Crimea Street

Harlaw Street

Waterloo Street.

Hotspur Street ,Mount Stuart Street ,Battlefield Place

Glenfinnan Road

Try Cressy Street and Aboukir Street in Govan, they also used to be linked by a Trafalgar Street. Trafalgar is long gone but Cressy and Aboukir both still exist and take their names from warships built in the yards that themselves wher named after battles.

Don't think Cadogan Street's had a mention...



From another source...
"A legend of one of the British regiments has a reference to the Gallowgate. At Fuente d'Honore, in Spain, the 71st Regiment bore the brunt of the fight. When the contest seemed to be going against the British, Colonel Cadogan waved his hat and cried, "Now, my lads, charge them down the Gallowgate," the scene of the conflict resembling that old Glasgow thoroughfare. With a cheer the 71st rushed on and drove the French out at the point of the bayonet. A monument to the gallant colonel's memory is in the Cathedral."

I'd like to see what the monument looks like. Can't find a pic on tinterweb. Anyone got one?

YORK STREET; was named after for the Duke of York, who was for a time Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, with frequent disastrous results.

WALKINSHAW STREET; was named after John Walkinshaw of Barrowfield. He was an ardent Jacobite, having been out both in the Fifteen and Forty-Five, and was ultimately taken prisoner, but escaped by the aid of his wife, who was the sister of Sir Hugh Paterson of Bannockburn.