Need help to find this street - Old Govan Road

[mrwsb]

I'm trying to find a street in Govan around 1910 it's called "Old Govan Road" each sear h just shows up Govan Road but no "Old" first picture is from a birth lines from 1912 and the second is a picture I just found today both clearly say "Old Govan Road, Govan" can any ody help please

[Girl Guide]

Welcome to RootsChat 

May I suggest that you get in touch with Glasgow City Archives?

Below is a link to their contact page.  Explain what you are looking for and hopefully they will be able to assist you.

https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/contact-us

[GR2]

I'm pretty sure they are just the same street. The link to the map below shows it as Govan Road. If you click to enlarge it you'll see the map shows the tramlines in the middle of the street the same as in the photograph.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/109707740

[MonicaL]

There is also this www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1695000

Have you tried searching the Valuation Rolls? I tried searching for 143 Old Govan Road but no results at all for any numbers in Old Govan Road. If you search with the surname and Govan Road you may find something on there.

Monica

[hanes teulu]

Daily Record, 31 Aug 1896
" ... a piece of vacant ground situated between Old Govan Road and Mavisbank Quay ..."

Mavisbank Quay
https://maps.nls.uk/view/103008989#zoom=6&lat=5522&lon=4520&layers=BT

[carolineasb]

Glasgow street names and numbers were changed/amended in the early 1920s. One of the reasons was when Govan was amalgamated into Glasgow as many streets in Govan were the same as certain Glasgow streets

[AlanBoyd]

At BNA the first newspaper references to "Old Govan Road" is in 1885. The next, an 1888article about the proposed new Clyde Dock includes this:

The new proposal is to make one large basin, diverting the Govan Road still further south, and bringing the tramway down Whitefield Road, and thence along the old Govan Road. The Govan people, it is said, desire the tramway line brought either along Paisley Road and down to the new Govan Road after Plantation is passed, or to have Craigiehall Street continued in a fairly straight line to Paisley Road, so that the new Govan Road might curve southwards to Craighall Street.