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Southern Motors

Southern Motors operated out of a showroom and garage on the corner of Pollokshaws Road and Titwood Road, on land owned by the Wright family. Their plans for this land appear to have changed more than once.

The Cottages

Where the BP Garage sits now, there were once two substantial houses that dated from the 1850s or earlier. These were Springhill and Greenhill Cottages, at 898 and 910 Pollokshaws Road respectively. Springhill Cottage took its name from the nearby Springhill House – as did the red sandstone tenements of Springhill Gardens (built 1904-6, architect John Nisbet) which replaced the house.

Excerpt of map showing the two cottages on Pollokshaws Road

OS Map 1893. Source: NLS Maps

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The Queen’s Garage

The Commercial Tyre Service Company (garage proprietors, and manufacturers and hirers of motorvehicles) was founded in May 1927 with £12,000 capital , and the same year an application was submitted to construct a garage and showroom at 640 Pollokshaws Road at the junction with Nithsdale Drive. The land had previously belonged to Glasgow Corporation.

Elevations of proposed garage

Elevations from Pollokshaws Road and from Nithsdale Drive. Source GCA plans 1927/496

Site plan

Plan of the garage. Note the many lock ups. Source: GCA Plans 1927/496

The business traded as The Queen’s Garage. Like many of the local garages, it initially sold petrol from the small forecourt on the corner, and concentrated on lock-ups for local car owners, which take up much of the site.

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Nursing Homes in Marywood Square

I have now been approached by three people regarding relatives, or themselves, being born in a nursing home in Marywood Square, including Hilary, the wife of Mike Stanger, founder of The Strathbungo Society back in the 1970s.

So here’s what I know, should anyone else ask.

Dawsholm Nursing Home

Margaret G Dawson rented premises at 8 Marywood Square from the architect James Money around 1935 and opened her nursing home. While the Post Office Directory always called it the Dawson Nursing Home, there are numerous birth announcements in the press under the name Dawsholm Nursing Home. This is the earliest I have found:

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