Lost Villas in Shawlands
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:03 pm
Hello all,
Just finished reading Aileen Smart's 'Villages of Glasgow - South of the Clyde' and being from Shawlands (or Langside, depending on how posh you want to be), I was interested to read about the complete flattening of an area of 1870s villas around Lethington Avenue/Direleton drive.
I believe they were cleared to make way for the new 80s style flats that now occupy the site just off Tantallon Road between Langside Drive and the Bottom of Skirving Street.
Had a wee look around the virtual Mitchell and found this photgraph of 4 Lethington Avenue, July 1964.
http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/vm/image ... 20174R.jpg
Does anyone have any more photos of this area pre 1980s or any information on how these villas came to become derelict (did the developers pay people to move out?). It just seems amazing that this area was cleared because folk would be fighting each other for an 1870 villa nowadays...
Just finished reading Aileen Smart's 'Villages of Glasgow - South of the Clyde' and being from Shawlands (or Langside, depending on how posh you want to be), I was interested to read about the complete flattening of an area of 1870s villas around Lethington Avenue/Direleton drive.
I believe they were cleared to make way for the new 80s style flats that now occupy the site just off Tantallon Road between Langside Drive and the Bottom of Skirving Street.
Had a wee look around the virtual Mitchell and found this photgraph of 4 Lethington Avenue, July 1964.
http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/vm/image ... 20174R.jpg
Does anyone have any more photos of this area pre 1980s or any information on how these villas came to become derelict (did the developers pay people to move out?). It just seems amazing that this area was cleared because folk would be fighting each other for an 1870 villa nowadays...