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Socceroo wrote:Timchilli, when you were taking photo's of the derelict houses at Craigton Road did you take any photo's in the back gardens?
I was driving past yesterday and i spied some remaining small structures grouped together and now visible against the back boundary fence of the property.
They might just be bin sheds etc but i think one of them might be an old surface Air Raid Shelter. I'll have a closer look the next time i am passing.
Dugald wrote:Hello Tim: great pictures! I knew these houses very well. I pushed my milk cart up there all the way from the Co-op dairy at the Govan Library delivering milk. At this time these houses were very elegant and probably rated with the finest houses in Govan (the houses were in Govan). Dr. Dagg did live in one of them; can't recall which one, and I'm not sure whether he was a dentist or a medical doctor. If he was a dentist (and likely he was) he had his office on Crossloan Rd. between Elderpark St. and Greenfield St.
Despite being right beside the Cleansing Dept. (called the 'Destructer'), there were more than two of those 'substantial properties' here... I'd guess about four. They were handy for transporttaion: the Craigton tram-cars use to turn at the top of the bridge over the railway (now the motorway), then the line was extended to the top of Jura St. for the Empire Exhibition. For a long time there was a vast area of vacant land behind these houses on the north side of the Destructer, and known locally as the "Hillies"; I notice your aerial photo shows there is still a tract of vacant land here. By the way, I'm talking of the time before Edmiston Drive was extended westward from Helen St.
Interesting stuff Tim. Cheers, Dugald.
Dugald wrote:Despite being right beside the Cleansing Dept. (called the 'Destructer'), there were more than two of those 'substantial properties' here...
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