Bearsden in 1861
The National Library for Scotland has an amazing online facility where you select a spot from a modern map and can then select different historical maps covering the same area. ...
Collylin Road
Collylin Road was built around 1895 – it is not mentioned in the New Kilpatrick Valuation Roll of 1895 but appears on a map surveyed in 1896: It’s interesting to...
George Edward: owner of St Germains
George Edward was born on 25th August 1865 at 246 Bath Street, Glasgow: This is still standing 159 years later: It is the door with the bins on either side...
The monorail
Britain From Above is a wonderful website of aerial photographs going back as much as 100 years. In a 1930 photo, the famous monorail was captured: Here is my attempt to...
Glenburn Street, Maryhill, 14th March 1941
I am indebted to Jeanette Burns for bringing this incident to my attention and to Michelle Blunn for supplying further information; Michelle, in turn thanks the Twitter account Target Clydeside...
Courthill and Whitehurst in 1928
One of the pleasures of having a proper website is that people are sending me requests, some of which are about the history of the Bearsden area. Today I’m starting...
How Bearsden streets were named: Sinclair Avenue and Morven Road
This is from the Milngavie and Bearsden Herald of 1936 (dated 22nd February but reporting on the meeting of the New Kilpatrick District Council of 13th January): The Glasgow-Caithness Benevolent...
VE Day 1945
How did Bearsden celebrate VE Day in 1945? I've used a photo from Glasgow at the front of this piece (note the casually held cigarettes!) but was it like that...
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