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Pollokshields AUGUST 2005 • ISSUE 53HERITAGE PUBLISHED QUARTERLY A touch of glass! —Celebrating some of the individual styles of original Victorian conservatories in Pollokshields. In our next issue we will feature some of the wealth of cast iron tenement stairway railings; please contact the editor to recommend any that should be included! The November issue will be our last – see back page. Historic Building Grant Aid Glasgow City Council can award discretionary grants to assist owners with the repair or restoration of original features to buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest within the City boundary. Routine maintenance, redecoration and work to services are not grant eligible items. The amount of grant is generally 25% of the cost for the work although the repair or reinstatement of original railings has a higher rate at 50%. A recent introduction is 25% grant aid for the repair or reinstatement of original windows to a property in a conservation area. To check if your property is eligible or for further information and an application form, please contact John Gair on 0141 287 8634. Wanted... • Minute secretary for the committee’s monthly meetings, held on the first Tuesday of the month at the Burgh Hall • Website development manager • Managing editor for this newsletter More on back page > Conservation and development Contacts So far as we are aware, the granted to erect the proposed Hazelwood Conservation Areas Planning Enquiries 1984 planning requirement to telecommunications mast on – is the site of the proposed new General reduce institutional use of the already commercially school for some 50 children with 287 8555 domestic residential property hugely over- extended villa / dual sensory impairments, Development Control still holds good for conservation nursing home in Newark Drive? being developed by Glasgow 287 6070 areas. Nonetheless the City Just what is the line the City City Council, designed by Enforcement Council’s Development & Council is prepared to hold Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop 287 6069 Regeneration Services when it comes to the Architects both to work in committee has granted incremental erosion of their harmony with the natural Heritage & Design permission for an original villa own designated conservation environment and to provide 287 8618 in Maxwell Drive, most areas? Where does their safe and stimulating —incl. Conservation recently used as an assessment published “duty to protect and environment for pupils. 287 8626 centre, to be used as the enhance the character and Notwithstanding the traffic Landscape Consulate of Pakistan, to whom appearance of conservation issues associated with 287 8673 the property has now been sold. areas” begin and end? Dumbreck Road and the nearby Land Services Regrettably, institutionally- It’s a shaky line at best. motorways, this looks to be an Parks used buildings have a track Not that ‘conservation’ need example of new institutional 287 5064 record of eroding the character preclude new development. An build that’s sympathetic to its and quality of our garden area of former farmland in location, and a valuable Roads suburb with incongruous Dumbreck, adjacent to amenity that will not 287 9000 development. Bellahouston Park – and just detrimentally threaten the Environmental Protection Will permission also be outside the Dumbreck and quality of the neighbourhood. Cleansing 445 4200 Environmental Health 287 6698 As ithers see us Recycling 287 2063 In May this year Pollokshields Founded in welcomed members of the Old 1900 the Old Fast track Glasgow Club on a guided walk Glasgow Club 0800 027 7027 that stretched from meets on the Transport Police Pollokshields East railway second 332 3649 station to Sherbrooke Church; Thursday of Community Police the group is seen here on the every month 423 1113 steps of the Burgh Hall. While from September to April in 24-hour Police they were all impressed with Adelaide’s in Bath Street, with 532 5300 specialist speakers on a variety the scope of the whole area with Crime Prevention both its tenements and villas, of subjects generally connected with Glasgow. Visitors are Sgt Brian Hughes the oasis of Maxwell Park and 552 5310 the contrasting stained glass welcome – and traditionally For a plain clothes police riches of the Pollokshields Parish more of their members are from the southside of the city than officer house visit: Church and Sherbrooke’s more elsewhere! recent examples – the feature Sgt Alan Shaw Edward VIII postbox at corner of For more information contact that quite disproportionately 532 5313 Herriet Street and Albert Drive Elizabeth Smith, 17 Southbrae caught their interest was the Community Council Drive, Glasgow G13 1PQ. Tel. 423 1448 pillar box bearing the insignia How many of us knew where 954 8276, or visit the website: City Council of Edward VIII! this rarity is to be found? www.oldglasgowclub.org.uk Maxwell Park Ward Alan Rodger 287 7013 Hidden secrets of Kitchin’s corner East Pollokshields Ward Bashir Ahmad One of the best-known undertaken in 1883, when the 287 5894 landmarks with a continuous neighbouring ground floor flats Scottish Parliament history in Pollokshields is at the up to No. 140 were being Gordon Jackson QC junction of Nithsdale Road and converted into much-needed 427 7047 Kenmuir Street. shops and their gardens removed Westminster Parliament Originally the pharmacy to create the wide pavements. Mohammad Sarwa formed part of a unique But the mall was abandoned 427 5250 shopping mall of four small and the entrance filled in with 3 Pollokshields Burgh Hall shops, entered from next vertical windows. Besides the 423 8858 door to 120 Nithsdale Road, chemist’s shop there was a well- leading into a passageway to known grocer, W.B. Paterson, and Pollokshields Library the rear. around the 1930s, John Drysdale, 423 1460 The corner alteration was tobacconist. Design Matters: Hazelwood Conservation Area Appraisal Of Glasgow’s 21 conservation areas Primarily a private residential area Hazelwood is one of the most recent, within a leafy setting, its special elements designated in 2002. Its Conservation Area are found in the architectural detailing of Appraisal is to be published in full colour the cottages. Although several later houses this autumn. deviate from the original 4 house types, a Occupying part of the south eastern variety of the originals predominate and corner of Bellahouston Park, opposite the create a feeling of homogeneity. residential area of Dumbreck, it is “a well- The development was described as defined compact area encompassing the “Glasgow’s Electric Suburb” in an article original grounds of Hazelwood House”. from the Building Industries’ publication in October 1915; all heating, lighting, cooking and hot water was supplied by The Lodge House electricity from the Glasgow Corporation mains – very much at the cutting edge of with its Lodge House, now 38 First this new utility! And some present day Gardens. residents maintain that they are still The development of small cottages, the known as “the electric houses”. Originally most distinctive feature of Hazelwood, there were to be no chimneys on these began in 1915; local builder George houses – some have since been introduced! Hamilton began with the conversion of the Hazelwood was originally proposed for House’s laundry building, now 15 Third inclusion with Dumbreck by Lord Esher, Gardens. This became the prototype for President of the Royal Incorporation of ‘The Dovecot’, one of the standard house Architects in Britain, in his Preliminary types which provide the character of the Report on ‘Conservation in Glasgow’, Aerial view of Hazelwood conservation area area, together with ‘The Neidpath’ and the published in 1971. Its designation © xyz digital maps co. (www.xyzmaps.com) ‘Ingleside’ and subsequently the ‘Minnow’; completes the desired protection of the the streets were completed in 1917 and southside group of suburbs in the A previous Hazelwood House is shown the houses by late 1922. The architectural “continuous landscaped belt stretching on maps dating from 1860; the present styles are all related to the Arts and Crafts two and a half miles between Bellahouston day house was designed in 1882 together Movement. Park and Queen’s Park.” Conservation Area Appraisals for East Pollokshields and West Pollokshields are expected to be started next year, with public consultation in the autumn of 2006 and publication hopefully in the spring of 2007. Older cottages can still be found in Pollokshields ‘Cottage’ of course still means a substantially built stone dwelling – of which there were originally several: the Broomhall Cottages in Shields Road, Hampton Cottage in Aytoun Road, Faskin in Maxwell Drive, and in St Andrew’s Drive there were Auburn, Wentworth, Lilybank, Toward, Eden, Levern, Shields, Swiss and Manhattan Cottages! It was also something of a misnomer, since some of these Forth Street Cottages Ellisland ‘cottages’ were two-storeyed semi-detached houses or full villas. The two cottages extant in Forth Street The area was farmland until after 1843, The single-storey ‘Woodbine Cottage’ are reputedly even older, (around 1820 has when there were brickworks just to the built in 1851 at 47 St Andrew’s Drive been suggested) although they are not north. largely retains its original dimensions to found on the early Ordnance Survey maps. this day. Next door at No. ‘49’ was the It’s claimed that they were once occupied The most distinguished single storey villa similarly built ‘Lorne Cottage’ – but in by horse-cab hirers; today