| Comment | u/BananaH15
A bit more reading online and it seems this side of the park was the "Camphill Estate", with the main house building still there in the park "Camphill House".
The wee buildings were all very likely little outhouses/store sheds associated with the grounds of the house.
The owners of Camphill Estate bought over two big adjacent patches of farmland to the east in the 19th century, and held on the them while urban Shawlands built up around their lands.
As with other areas of Glasgow (the Ibrox Estate which became Bellahouston Park, or the gifting of Pollok Estate to the city for example), the family gave the land over to the city as parkland in the mid 19th century.
Not sure on the details of this gifting, but my guess is these donations of stately homes and parklands were as much about the families not wanting to live direct next to the hustle and bustle of dense semi urban Glasgow, in what was just decades before wide open farmland. |
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