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mondobongo · Roll and sausage Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 49

I’m a newbie here, so apologies if I’m posting this in the wrong place. I’m hoping for some help identifying an old street (which hopefully didn’t just exist in my mind!)

Back in the 1960s I used to come home from Midland Street to Pollok on the 50. The first half of the journey was like an old black and white film filled with grimy shades of grey and black but in the midst of all this was one wee island of green, a small park fenced off in the middle of a side street around Tradeston/Kinning Park. I remember the street led off south from Paisley Road West but can’t remember which street it was.

Here’s my pathetic attempt at an image of it as I remember it looking south from Paisley Road. Any ideas for the street name?

Cheers
mo

schiehallion · Bag of chips Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 148

It may have been Pollok Street which lay between Kingston and Kinning Park.

Was it off to the left as you were heading out of town? Here's the wee gardens in Pollok St with Paisley Road at the top.

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kev · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject:

Here is a present day view of the tenement to the right of the Kingston halls in the centre of Shiehallions photo....wont be there much longer by the look of it

Scary · Deep fried Mars bar Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 1024

Pollok St sounds about right, the only other one I can think of would be Plantation Park also running southward at Edwin St off Paisley Rd in Kinning Park.

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Stuball · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject:

I seem to remember reading a great article about Pollok street and its gardens.... somewhere... Hollowhorn?
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mondobongo · Roll and sausage Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 49

Wow!! Thanks for your replies guys and for all the trouble you've gone to in adding pictures, much appreciated.

Yes, Schiehallion, it was on the left hand side coming out of town.

Pollok Street (how appropriate) certainly seems to fit the bill. There were indeed roads up either sides of the gardens. I'm presuming the aerial photograph was taken well before the 1960s as I don't remember what looks like a monument/clock at Paisley Road, just plain iron railings. But the street is certainly wide enough and has the same geometry.

It may have been have Edwin St. Scary but I think I might have remembered it a bit better as my dad drove a bus out of Govan garage in Brand St and I was up there occasionally and so think I was a wee bit more familiar with the area around Lorne St. But as I say can't remember where it was so I may well be talking sh!te (not unusual for me I assure you).

Once again thanks a lot for taking the time to post responses and so quickly. I know it’s a stupid wee thing to ask about but it’s something I’ve pondered about for years and obviously there’s no sign of it on Paisley Rd nowadays.

Cheers
mo

schiehallion · Bag of chips Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 148

Here's a couple of views of the gardens in Pollok Street courtesy of Virtual Mitchell

http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/vi...p?i=11487&r=2&t=4&x=1

http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/vi...p?i=10195&r=2&t=4&x=1
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mondobongo · Roll and sausage Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 49

Excellent. That's spot on Schiehallion, thanks.

Thanks very much Stuball. I fired the terms "Hollowhorn" and "Pollok Street" into Google and found the article you are on about... http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/foru...amp;hilit=The+Lost+Gardens+Pollok It is indeed a great article. Thanks a lot man.

I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with all this now

, I think I need a lie down now.

Scary · Deep fried Mars bar Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 1024

streapadair · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:47 pm Post subject:

Hi mondobongo, here's some Pollok St for you.

The west side of the middle bit, between Houston St and Ardgowan St, April 1974

Pollok St UP Church, on the east side just round the corner from PRW, June 1975