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38 Queen Square

The north side of Queen Square was built by Daniel McNicol to the same design as his terraces in Regent Park Square, and first occupied in 1866. Originally numbered 18, it was renumbered to 38 around 1929.

Matthew Waddell

Matthew Waddell was the first occupant in 1866. He was a hosier, glover and shirt maker at 122 Argyle Street, but also had several restaurants, such as at 126 Union Street. The 1861 census described one of his restaurants on Gordon Street as a “Temperance Dining Room and Coffee Shop, employing 8 girls”. He appears to have been present in Strathbungo for a year or less and later lived in Crosshill.

The Crarae Quarry Incident

On 25 September 1886 Matthew joined up to 1000 tourists on the paddle steamer Lord of the Isles to Inveraray. The trip was especially popular as the owners had promised to stop at Crarae Quarry on Loch Fyne to witness the last of the season’s big gunpowder blasts. The quarry was leased by Faill & Co to provide setts for Glasgow’s roads, and Faill’s had invited a party from the Glasgow Corporation on the trip too. With the steamer stationary off the quarry, it gave a blast on its whistle, and the quarrymen triggered the explosion, bringing down some 70,000 tons of rock in a tremendous display.

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50 Marywood Square

This house was previously known as 24 Princes Square, and is the end house in Robert Weir’s terrace built in 1877-8. You can read Robert Weir’s story elsewhere, though I warn you it’s a sad one.

The subsequent residents were mostly typical Glaswegian middle-class businessmen, selling calico, timber, boilers, fish, ice and gas. Here are their stories.

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Scottish Cars & the industrial heartland of Titwood Road

The last article in the series on Strathbungo’s commercial motor garages, but this one covers much more than just Scottish Cars. You wouldn’t believe it now, but Titwood Road was once a hive of industry, covering cars, photography, catering, indoor tennis, bowls, boxing, engineering, boot making, cold storage, veterans, and a large dairy. Almost all evidence of this has now vanished.

Titwood Road

Lane off Waverley Street, the original line of Titwood Road

Titwood Road was originally a farm lane that led over the railway where Crossmyloof Station now sits. The tenements of Waverley Gardens were built with their back courts facing directly onto the lane, but in 1922 the road was realigned a little further north, providing new plots for the Pollok Estate to feu on the south side of the road. At the Pollokshaws end, these plots were used for housing, as extensions of the Moray Park development of red sandstone houses by James Wright (Strathbungo’s Gardens) and the white houses of William Todd Aitkenhead (Carswell Gardens). From opposite Carswell Gardens up to Minard Road, the plots were all feued for commercial purposes.

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