Old Glasgow streets

['Trish']

Can anyone tell me where these streets are or where:
1. Crail street (18)
2. Thornhill Street (20)
3. Drumover Drive, Tollcross (Whinston Villa*)
4. Duke Street Camlachie Glasgow (338)
5. Brown Street, Milton Glasgow (17)
6. Centre street (84)
7. Catherine Street. (21)
8. Kidston Street (105).

I have found one or two of them, but what I am trying to do is plot there movements on a map.

*Whinston Villa, Drumover Drive, is where Robert welsh Bisset Russell and Margaret Hamilton got married in 1911.  Could anyone tell me what the property was?  Such as belonging to one of the couples i.e. family home or was it the address of the local priest/vicar?

Lastly does anyone know where I can find photos of these addresses?

Thanks
regards Trish

[jackiemc]

Hi Trish

Look at the Mitchell Library website.  Most of them are on there.  Drumover Drive looks to be Drumother Drive and they have a picture of it from 1905.

Jackie

['Trish']

Hi will do, thanks for the Drumother drive, I was deciphering from a badly written wedding certificate.  However, does anyone know where Whinston Villa was in Drumother Drive?

regards Trish

[jackiemc]

Heres a link about Drumover/Drumother Drive.  The cert was probably right.

http://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/hdrg/2006May3.htm

Jackie

[RJ_Paton]

The first 4 are all in the east end of Glasgow (Crail Street still stands)

[RJ_Paton]

Thornhill Street ran off of Crail Street.

Centre Street -- there were 2 such streets 1 was in Whiteinch to the west end of Glasgow and the other was nearer the central area but was on the south side of the river and ran off of Clyde Place - it can still be found on google maps.

Catherine Street - again there were 2 such streets - 1 was just north of the current City Centre (off of parliamentary Road) and the other was in the east End off of Tobago Street.

Kidston Street was in hutchesontown in what is now regarded as the Gorbals area of Glasgow - the name is still used in the area but is Kidston Terrace - there is nothing of the original area left.

['Trish']

Thanks, will take a look at the street maps.  Any idea which house was Whinston Villa in Drumother/Drumover Drive?

Regards Trish

[RJ_Paton]

It may have been number 94 which in the 1927 directory was listed as a Manse and the home of a Rev. Shepherd. (by 1943/44 it's the home of Rev. Campbell).

Unfortunately neither directory identies it as Whinston Villa but as it is the manse for the church and the manse was the most common place to get married it could be a reasonable assumption to make.

[Cammy]

Coming home from work yesterday I was passing Drumover Drive so I stopped and decided to have a look for Whinston Villa.  Drumover Drive should be re-named Cardiac Hill,  anyway when I got my breath back at the top I found #94 which is a fairly large detached villa and now occupied by Kirktonholme Nursery.  Part of the sandstone above the doorway appears to have had a name, however, it is impossible to make out what it was although Whinston Villa could probably fit. I didn't have my camera with me but if you are still looking for photos I could go again (by car) and could photograph Crail St too.  Let me know if you still want photographs.

Cammy