| Comment | Yep, immediately southeast of that crossroad. Cranstonhill starts right on that junction. You have the old Cranstonhill Police Station right on the corner and behind that was where the Cranstonhill Baths on Elliot Street used to be.
Stobcross. Well, the location of the old Stobcross mansion house was roughly where the SECC train station is, but the Lands of Stobcross are what we pretty much know as the whole of Finnieston today. It stretched from the Clyde till it met Overnewton (Yorkhill) and Anderston. Finnieston was created in 1768, when Matthew Orr (the Orr family come up over and over and over again in almost all Glasgow history books) who held Stobcross decided to feu off a small portion of the land. He named it Finniestown in memory of Reverend John Finnie, who was close to and loved by the Orrs. One of the first tenants (or feuars) of Finniestown was one John Smith, the bookseller. |
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