| Comment | Nah, sorry! I think you're a wrong here :)
The motorway is obviously new, but it follows the line of the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal which was built in the 1800s. That was subsequently built over by the Paisley Canal railway line which takes its name from the canal.
Pollokshields is a really interesting neighbourhood as it was designed almost in totality as a defined garden borough in the mid 1800s. It was meant to have a west and east side - the west filled with villas and the east with ornamentally and symmetrically laid out streets lined with tenements. We ended up getting something like that, but the original plans were on a whole other level of urban planning. I'll try find a link to an image.
Anyway, my basic point is Pollokshields was always designed as a contiguous, well defined neighbourhood. When it was built, it was separate from Dumbreck both spacially and in it's development. It shouldn't really be seen as a continuation of Dumbreck, because there was always a 'barrier' of sorts between the two.
EDIT - ah there you go, I found some more info to show what I mean.
http://www.gerryblaikie.com/southglasgow/pollokshields.htm
Scroll down a wee bit and you'll see David Rhind's 1849 fueing plan for Pollokshields. Way more ornate than what we ended up with. |
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