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PARTICK— PAST A ND PRESENT CHARLES GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH WILLIA M HODGE COMPANY 1 9 0 2 Dnmcn no TO PR OVOS T W O OD AND TH! MAGISTRATES AND COMMISS IONERS OF PARTICK A SOUVENIR OF THE BURGH ATTAINING rts 10mm : C O N T E N T S RO PE O MAN RI D, RE O O T ES F RMATI N IM , THE M S OF P C ILL ARTI K, TII E V E ILLAG , B S OF OLD P C IT ARTI K, OLD P C I S ARTI K NN , OLD P C I S O S ARTI K N TITUTI N , S OC RE O S L E OF P C IAL AND LIGI U IF ARTI K, THE B URGII , V C O P I T RIA ARK, S IP B I H U LDING, MORA RE I O S E O L AND L GI U FF RT, E C O DU ATI NAL, NEW P C ARTI K, OLD PA C MEN RTI K , AP PE X NDI , INDEx, LIST OF ILLUSTRATI ONS ALE D W V xAN ER OOD, ESQ. , PRO OST OF PARTIOK , I goz, YORKHILL OUSE H , PO IO OP C YDE I I 6 RT N L N 54, REGE I S NT M LL , OLD IDGE D ISHOP I P ICK BR AN B M LL, ART , ’ Y GIEE S CO GE D S WMI GRANN TTA , AN A LL FE RRY ROAD, OLD SCHOO OP PARTICE L , PARTICE DE D E A B LL, FOS S I OVE V IC O I P RK L GR , T R A A , LD P II URCII Y O U. C , B ARS ROAD, P R E F A C E IT is over twenty - five years since the t d h la e Mr. James Napier publishe is Notes and Reminiscences of Old Par ” of tick , and the volume , being now out to print, is rarely be met with , except r in the possession of private collecto s . k of Mr Napier, who new the history k his birthplace well , brought his wor down to the sixties and seventies of last tu who cen ry , and there are many alive still remember the quiet and suburban aspect of this western suburb at that who its period, and may have witnessed rapid extension in more recent times to the present year when the burgh attains its !ubilee . In these circumstances I have deemed the present a fitting opportunity to issue xiii PREFACE f av e the ollowing chapters, in which I h su m endeavoured , in a general manner, to ’ a marise the main features of Mr. N pier s r th work, and bring his histo y down to e s pre ent time . What threads Of the his tory of Partick I may have left aside may perhaps be taken up at some other time by a future historian , and weaved into the web of the further history of the burgh . Readers who may desire to possess a further knowledge of any of the various subjects herein mentioned, are referred ’ to the following authorities N apier s Notes and Reminiscences of Partick, G G lasgow Regality Club Papers, lasgow Protocols , Baker Incorporation Records, n United Secession Church Records, Gova Parish Records, Govan School Board Records, Transactions of the Philosophical, A rcha olo ical of Geological , and g Societies of Dowan hill Glasgow, Historical Sketches . e Church by the late Rev T M Lawri , XIV PREFACE of and Reminiscences Partick by the Rev. Henry Anderson . t S a o . My thanks are due Mr W G me l, M r. h s F T Barrett, Mr Jo n Ingli , Mr e Jam s Donaldson , and Others, for the help I have received in verifying many facts of t and dates regarding the history Par ick, Past and Present and to my friend, Mr. r for John Aitken , photographer, Pa tick, the photographs he has supplied me with to illustrate the volume . P C 1 0 2 . ARTI K, 9 PARTICK—PAST AND PRESENT ROMAN PERI OD ON - the north east bank of the Kelvin, and just overlooking its junction with the Yorkhill H Clyde , there stands ouse on the extreme western portion of the Overnew ton estate . In early spring and summer the house and its surroundings still possess a faint shadow of their former sylvan beauty, and are reminiscent, in a frag a of a ment ry way, how Dumbarton Ro d was adorned on either side , all the way from Glasgow to Partick, some eighty or ninety years ago . a 1 80 Yorkhill Built about the ye r 5 , House was till 1 8 1 3 occupied by its owner, R . F . Alexander, a Glasgow d to merchant, when it was sol Andrew A I PARTICK—PAST AND PRESENT ce f Gilbert, whose nie became the wi e of h lbert Jo n Graham Gi , the celebrated painter. Mr. Graham Gilbert, who con tin u ed to reside here till his death in 1 866 , was a collector as well as a painter of G pictures, and laswegians will remem ber with gratitude that the entire collee tion was bequeathed by his widow to of the Corporation of the City Glasgow, and now forms part of the treasures which adorn the walls of the Corporation f r o . Galle y Art The year after Mr . ’ Gilbert s death some workmen, while engaged trenching ground for a new e Yorkhill e t e gard n on the s at , came upon a variety of Roman remains . Among few these were a coins, one of which bears the image and superscription of the Roman Emperor Trajan, who reigned 8 A . D 1 1 . from A D 9 to . 7 The coin is of s had dd d bras , and, though it lain embe e 1 600 in the soil for at least years, is still In a state of good preservation . These 2 ROMAN PERIOD r of . emains were, by permission Mr D M . Crerar Gilbert, exhibited in the Bishop ’ s Palace collection of antiquities s of 1 888 in the Gla gow Exhibition , and 1 1 again in the Exhibition of 90 . They in cluded — n G a rass of a an . O verse a lau Coi re t b Tr j b , rested head of that Emperor i n profile to the right in scription (translated) To the Emperor Caesar rva ra an u u u an u Dacicus Hi h Ne T j A g st s Germ ic s, , g ” st n v un an . v rse Prie , i ested with Trib iti power Re e , mu t f a fi can be ch corroded , bu a draped em le gure fa n tra S i n n an n i tly ced itt g o a chair, d looki g to the ft le , holding a garland . nz in u n . A bro e co , m ch wor S ilver coin . n o n u flat. Bro ze or copper c i , both sides q ite n n z O e large thumb ring i bron e. ! A small quantity of wheat . Eleven fragments of four separate vessels . ix f r of a a as . S fragments o glass, pa t sm ll v e The discovery of these remains may be assumed as fair evidence that Romans the of Yorkhill s really lived on site ground , an d are certainly the first recorded find did not then ro in Cal edonia and would have to Wheat g w , ” : I the ci ty of “ fi x: c f Cale “ 31 bran ched a n i i s s till recog PARTICK—PAST AND PRESENT in the immediate vicinity of the city of Glasgow . Referring to a curious map of this country constructed by the Egyptian A D I 0 geographer, Ptolemy , . 5 , a local antiquarian points out that, while the well -known Roman station at Van duara (Paisley) is indicated , the region of Cale donia at Yorkhill is a complete blank . It may have been that the Yorkhill outpost was subordinate to the larger camp at Paisley, and communicated with the latter Of or by means the ford in the Clyde , by the vicinal military way which branched Off from the main line , and is still recog n ised under the modern name of Cause wayside , an old street in Paisley . The idea of the outpost is more than probable, for the Paisley camp was intended to guard the shallow of the Clyde Opposite the line of the Antonine wall , which, in its westward course , comes very near the brink of the river, the ROMAN PERI OD Y orkhill outpost On the opposite side u of n The g arding the mouth the Kelvi . garrison at Yorkhill was probably com m an ded d by a centurion , and compose of u picked soldiers for outpost d ty . I t ma y be asked , however, why place a fort so far within the Antonine ff wall , which a orded ample protection from the inroads of the natives in this northern Roman province ! The the of answer is, that at the time coin Yorkhill Trajan found at was struck, and the probable erection of the castellum on a a that commanding spot, the milit ry curt in ’ which connected Agricola s row of forts between the Clyde and the firth had not been constructed . The space between — — these forts about two miles was there ff fore quite open , and a orded opportunity for the fierce hostile natives to make i sudden raids into the Roman d strict.

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