Glasgow's Lost Streets/Roads etc

Alex Glass · Glasgow's Lost Streets/Roads etc

When reading an old Glasgow Guide book from 1872 a number of old streets were named which are now gone.

It got me thinking that this may make a good thread on here to find out if there are any old pictures featuring Glasgow's Lost Streets/Roads. Or may be there is some remnant of these streets left to see.

The ones which I came across are

Canon Street
Stirling Square
Mason Street
Balmanno Street
Great Hamilton Street
Canning Street
Jail Square
Princes Street
Main Street (West of Hope Street)
Graeme Street

Or what about those streets etc that have had a name change like St George's Place.

Do you know of any other old Glasgow Streets/Roads etc which are long gone.

Stuball

Parliamentary Road of course! Long gone with only a slight footprint in the landscape of the path it took

Alex Glass

That's the idea Stu

Forgot about the ones which have been altered and now only the name remains but the street/road is almost all but gone. Given that I have a family connection with Parliamentary Road I should have thought about that too

Thanks

glasgowken

There must be dozens, if not hundreds of smaller streets which have disappeared or found themselves incorporated into other streets.

Risk St in Calton is also gone. It used to be between Bain St & Green St.
Only know about it as this was the site of one of Andrew Menzies horse bus stables.

Alex Glass

All welcome GK

Good example of yet another street which is now lost.

rotten milk

balmanno street i recognize

ran from where strathclyde uni's john anderson building is, at an angle and on a fckin steep hill, down to george st

also shows tarbett street and dean street on the way down

of course, this whole area was 'disappeared' - it was slum area anyway, then the uni redeveloped what was left
could be included that middle chunk of rottenrow, demolished, built on, hence the remaining bit onto the high st. is called rottenrow east.

1964 view, courtesy virchull michull. middle bit of rottenrow being demolished, balmanno st. running down at top right. the building top right is mentioned in the streapadair thread, became the uni's 'balmanno residence' in which i stayed '87-'89 - looked exactly the same btw

however, i now know the origin of the name!

closer 1955 view of 81 rottenrow, balmanno st.

weaver street, in the vicinity still exists, but only as a wee cul-de-sac off rottenrow east - taylor st. on the left, rottenrow east along the bottom, this view also shows lost streets, the uni's birbeck court now occupy the site

Alex Glass

Outstanding RM

This is the type of information this thread needs. It is amazing how this part of the city has changed beyond recognition. Thanks also for including the photos

Stuball

The original Killermont Street is gone... it used to run south to north while the current one runs east to west.

rotten milk

is killermont street (present) not roughly where parly street was?
a common link between the two was the terminus for buses was killermont. st(past)

again this was a whole area of destruction(i think the pics came from here originally

)

cybers

Vinegarhill St now the forge
along with many many others swallowed up by the same build.

Soho St Gallowgate + many others but my family were from Soho st i was but a babe when it went. Now Crownpoint Sports

All i can think of at the minute as my head is full of espresso.

erm might be the wrong place to ask but anyone any idea what happened to the cobbles from the top of Yate St that were in the shape of a leg a boot a ball and a set of goals...
Passed the other day when i remembered about these and though picture time ... Grass everywhere no cobbles.

cybers

james73

Earlston Avenue, Royston. Linked Rhymer Street and Roystonhill to Royston
Road with the back courts looking onto the Monkland Canal. Now a school
football pitch.

In recent years, a new 'Earlston Place' has appeared on the south side of
Rhymer Street.

James H

hambonio

what about drummond st in townhead,?I think it joined baird st and parliamentary rd next street down from taylor st.maybe someone can dig out an old map of this area as that was where I was brought up,McAslin st parley rd glebe st in the 50s and 60s

cybers

Its in the map above and joins Kennedy St To Parly Road

james73

Cunningham Street (formerly Holmhead Street), city centre. Spanning Queen
Street station not only at great height but also at a bizarre angle. Removed after
years of lying derelict to make way for another shopping centre.

Map showing the old streetname

1960s pics

c.1976 - Cunningham Street on the right

2008

James H

schiehallion

Some examples of streets changing names.

Midland Street which connects Oswald Street and Jamaica Street, where The Arches is, was formerly called Ann Street according to the 1909 OS map. Clyde Street was then called Great Clyde Street.

This Queen's Park OS map from 1910 shows a wee glut of name changes. Whilst Prince Edward Street still runs parallel with Queen's Park Station on the north side, on the south side, it was Prince Albert Street before it was later renamed Torrisdale Street.

Also, Niddrie Road / Niddrie Square used to be Cromwell Road / Cromwell Square and Balvicar Street was once Camphill Street.

This 1892 OS map shows Gorbals Cross (now the crossroads at the Sheriff Court and the mosque). What is now Ballater Street running off to the east was at that time, Govan Street.

The mosque has been built where Muirhead Street and the warehouses are. However the remnants of St Ninian Street still exists today under the appropriately named Mosque Avenue.

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