| Comment | Well, it's not that I'm wrong; it's that we are both right depending how far back you want to go with sources.
As you say Pollokshields was laid out in the 1800s. But, before that 'The Lands of Dumbreck' are marked out as covering most of what we now know as Pollokshields West. The canal cut through the Lands of Dumbreck rather than forming it's edge (except it did mark it's northern edge with Cessnock).
This is the case with almost all area boundaries. They morph and change over time. The answer to where they lie will always be different depending who you ask based on how far back someone wants to claim we should look.
My argument is that Dumbreck existed before Pollokshields did and that Pollokshields was built over the top of half of Dumbreck, and that we should not have forced the renaming of the land, but I admit it's wholly academical and that virtually all people today see it as Pollokshields. |
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