maryfield terace port-glasgow

[orkrad]

 Hi everyone, Can someone please  tell me where Maryfield Terrace Port-  Glasgow was located . I think I have found a relative in the valuation rolls for 1925 and 1930  who lived there. His name was John TOLAN  Thanks Orkrad

[Ruskie]

It’s not marked on the map but I believe it was on Mary Street:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.83622949166371&lat=55.93549&lon=-4.69942&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld

It may have been a row of terrace houses situated on Mary Street, though that is just a guess. 

[orkrad]

 Thank you Ruskie fo r the side by side map. My family lived in Mary Street ( aka Glenpark Terrace) and I am wondering  when the houses that still exist there were originally built.  I hope someone who lives in Port- Glasgow will be along to give us some back ground history. Orkrad

[Ruskie]

I found some referees to Maryfield Terrace in the early 1900s, so presumably they were built pre WW1.

I will have a look later to see if I can discover any more.

[scotmum]

Not in 1895 valuation rolls, but there by 1905.

[scotmum]

Getting closer....for sale notice in Port Glasgow Express 1903:

.   FIve NEW TENEMENTS of DWELLING HOUSES known as MARYFIELD TERRACE, PORT-GLASGOW, erected on the site of the Old Bowling Green, Mary Street     

[Ruskie]

I looked at some old maps and up until the late 1800s Mary Street was mainly vacant land, with the odd building here and there.

The four storey tenements which are currently standing look Victorian/Edwardian to me. I don’t know if any of these was Maryfield Terrace, though if you can find the location of the bowling green, you will have your answer. 

[Ruskie]

A bit of information about the history of the bowling green and reason for relocating in 1899:
http://portglasgowbowlingclub.weebly.com/

[Ruskie]

It is marked on the 1913 map here:

https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/232500/674500/12/101128 (you might have to scroll down to select the map and scroll around the map to find it - sorry I can never get old-maps to display the exact spot.

Maryfield Tce is not on Mary Street, but runs east off MaryStreet south of the railway line.

It backed on to the railway line, with the terrace possibly fronting where Highholm Street is today:
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=19.252604660182026&lat=55.93503&lon=-4.69915&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld

The four storey red sandstone(?) tenements which you can see on Google street view on the Mary Street end of Highholm Street, I think would have been Maryfield Tce.

You can still see the “five dwellings” as per Scotmum’s newspaper article. 

The pebble dashed tenements on one side of the street look to either have been “renovated”, or rebuilt, and the terrace extended on both sides of the road.