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Post by Waverley on Nov 1, 2012 10:24:39 GMT 1
Due to my research on the Riverside School's Out Project 2014 I am coming across many fascinating facts re the Springfield Housing Scheme which was directly opposite the old school. Over the years the are between the wee park at Bogside Street and London Road was used for numerous things before the Housing Scheme was built. The 40,000th house built by the Corporation was located at 2 Buddon Street... Immediatedly prior to the building of the scheme the area was basically a shanty town made up of old World War One nissen huts and other living accommodation made up of wood and tin. Eventually this make shift village had to be demolished because of the rat infested surroundings and living accommodation. 628 houses were built roughly at the same time as the work began on Riverside School. Ironically the only shops in the scheme were based in nearby Kinnear Road which were affectionately known as 'the Huts' until
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Post by Gibbsy on Nov 1, 2012 16:17:58 GMT 1
Due to my research on the Riverside School's Out Project 2014 I am coming across many fascinating facts re the Springfield Housing Scheme which was directly opposite the old school. Over the years the are between the wee park at Bogside Street and London Road was used for numerous things before the Housing Scheme was built. The 40,000th house built by the Corporation was located at 2 Buddon Street... I always knew my close had some significance ;D
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Post by adaline on Nov 1, 2012 21:54:39 GMT 1
Interesting find Charlie.
I was down that way last night and London Rd was closed between the new road and Springfield Rd meaning we had to turn down the new road it's looking really good we followed the diversion signs and ended back on Springfield Rd eventually getting back onto London Rd.
Adaline
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Post by Waverley on Nov 2, 2012 11:54:20 GMT 1
Due to my research on the Riverside School's Out Project 2014 I am coming across many fascinating facts re the Springfield Housing Scheme which was directly opposite the old school. Over the years the are between the wee park at Bogside Street and London Road was used for numerous things before the Housing Scheme was built. The 40,000th house built by the Corporation was located at 2 Buddon Street... I always knew my close had some significance ;D I completely forgot that you lived in number 2 Buddon Street Billy... ;D
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Post by Waverley on Nov 8, 2012 21:58:58 GMT 1
Sorry Gibbsy I misread my notes the 40,000th house opened by the old Glasgow Corporation was opened in 2 Gailes Street and not 2 Buddon Street as I originally posted on here.
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Post by Gibbsy on Nov 9, 2012 10:18:56 GMT 1
Sorry Gibbsy I misread my notes the 40,000th house opened by the old Glasgow Corporation was opened in 2 Gailes Street and not 2 Buddon Street as I originally posted on here. Ach well at least I can say I lived 2 closes away from the 40000th house
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Post by bettycolter on Nov 11, 2012 2:58:39 GMT 1
bloody hell , you guys are good wi yer history . :-) well done .
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2012 19:54:42 GMT 1
Does anyone know where I could get photos of Buddon St. to send to Los Angeles?Sadly my cousin passed away last month,and her family would love some history of where she lived before emmigrating in 1952.Any help would be appreciated.
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Post by Waverley on Nov 13, 2012 8:28:52 GMT 1
Does anyone know where I could get photos of Buddon St. to send to Los Angeles?Sadly my cousin passed away last month,and her family would love some history of where she lived before emmigrating in 1952.Any help would be appreciated. I am sure there are some photos of Buddon Street on the Parkhead People's site...
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Post by Waverley on Nov 13, 2012 8:30:59 GMT 1
Springfield Bombshell !
HUTS TO BE DEMOLISHED
Corporation’s Pointed Official Statement.
The huts at Springfield are to go ! Within six months those reminders of a war-time shortage of housing accommodation will have disappeared, and preparations to convert the area into a modern housing scheme will have commenced.
The news will come as a shock to the residents, who were all of the opinion that they woud be permitted to reside in the huts for almost a year more. Such is not the case, however, as a Standard reporter was definitely informed by Mr. Cummings, of the City Improvements Department.
Mr.Walter Anderson, chaIrman of Parkhead Ward Committee, himself a resident in the scheme, regretfully, admitted to a Standard reporter that he understood the scheme to be condemned, but he expressed the opinion , however, that it might be some time before the rehousing of the residents commenced. “The huts,” he said, “were erected to meet the great post-war shortage of houses. It was understood that the huts were to be demolished after ten years, but at the expiry of that period the Corporation intimated that the scheme would continue for five years more. Only three of those years have run their course. In consideration of that fact. I am surprised that the Corporation has given such notice to the residents.”
“It is hoped that, when the Corporation finds alternative accommodation, we will not be subject to the scandal that has been commented upon freely in the Standard _ of being removed to some distant part of the city. I am afraid there might be trouble if such was the case. I believe that the Corporation should build the new houses first on the vacant ground fronting London Road, and then offer them to the local hut residents. Although it is a rather minor point, it is particularly unfortunate that the change is taking place at this period, and that the many gardening enthusiasts in the scheme are to lose all the benefits of their labours.”
The official viewpoint was stated by Mr. Cummings, who said that the hundred and twenty-eight residents of the scheme would be offered suitable accommodation and that, at a rough estimate, the last of tenants would be out in about six months time, The location of the ‘suitable” accommodation he could not disclose.
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Post by patrick on Nov 17, 2012 11:20:08 GMT 1
i think Danny Broon lived at no 2, gailes st charlie.
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Post by Ian on Jun 1, 2014 23:51:08 GMT 1
Can't seem tae be able tae post on the thread I posted on last night so will try this wan Back again, it’s Sunday night, is anybody there. I’m now looking forward tae the morra’s last episode of Commonwealth City. The wumin who was evicted down Baltic Street way takes her case tae the courts, how does it all end, we shall soon find out. Sad about the guy who had the three shops in the last tenement building tae be demolished on the Springfield Road next tae Baltic Street, was it his brother who was murdered in the last episode? Anyway, it’s an interesting programme but tae repeat, it’s not really about the East end of Glasgow as I remember it, it’s about Dalmarnock and that part of the city. Hope it all goes well in the regeneration but the East end proper, North of the Springfield light’s and Parkheed doesn’t get a mention. And as far as our own Rivvy School, well it’s as if it didn’t exist.
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