Comments for SGHET https://sghet.com/ South Glasgow Heritage and Environment Trust Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:48:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Comment on The Maxwells of Pollok by S. Pollock https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-7942 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:48:29 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-7942 Nobody seems to have much detail on the link between the Maxwell and Pollok families. This history states that the Maxwells received land from Alexander I and built the first castle, and seems to treat the name “Pollok” as a description of where the first castle was built (near a pool). An admittedly questionable article on the Pollocks on scotclans . com states that the first historically known Pollok (Peter) “was given a grant of Upper Pollock in Renfrewshire… sometime between 1150 and 1153, during the reign of David I, by Walter fitz Alan (d. 1177), the 1st High Steward of Scotland, as a thanks for his father’s service to Scotland, particularly at the Battle of the Standard in 1138.”
Any details?

]]> Comment on The Maxwells of Pollok by Karl https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-7909 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:53:01 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-7909 I can trace my Grand Father all the way back to Maccus some 30 generations, I would love to connect with others to share information

]]> Comment on Gas, Petrol and Alchemy in Cathcart by Stephen https://sghet.com/project/gas-petrol-and-alchemy-in-cathcart-glasgow/#comment-7876 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 20:09:12 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=9959#comment-7876 First class

]]> Comment on The Maxwells of Pollok by Anne S Maxwell https://sghet.com/project/the-maxwells-of-pollok/#comment-7855 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:32:13 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=7553#comment-7855 In reply to Carol Bennie.

I think we are related. Are you on ancestry and, if so, would you be willing to connect with me?

]]> Comment on DIXON IRON WORKS by Ronnie https://sghet.com/project/dixon-iron-works/#comment-7843 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 02:50:54 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=929#comment-7843 Memories from my childhood many years ago my faither drove for the British Road Services (BRS) somewhere around Dixon Ironworks although I think he called it Dixons Blazes and I seem to remember seeing the night sky lit up and ocassion sparks flying up in the air… I think that was maybe the mid to late 1950s.
I emigrated to Canada in 1976 in search of Fame & Fortune & I just found this wee page

]]> Comment on LANGSIDE HALLS by Carole Scott https://sghet.com/project/langside-halls/#comment-7839 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:48:02 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=930#comment-7839 I am appalled to see that this beautiful building is now being allowed to be blighted by graffiti. This has started appearing since the council decided to make the site open plan and hence so easily accessible to vandals. Surely CCTV should have been installed so that this wonderful local community centre piece is protected. The building is comparable to any seen abroad and it would shameful if it was just allowed to deteriorate.

]]> Comment on Doune Castle – Shawlands’ forgotten music venue by Ryan https://sghet.com/project/doune-castle-shawlands-forgotten-glasgow-music-venue/#comment-7837 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:44:41 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=9418#comment-7837 Was there ever a huge crossbow on the outside of the building

]]> Comment on SIR JOHN MAXWELL SCHOOL by Gail Robertson https://sghet.com/project/sir-john-maxwell-school/#comment-7823 Wed, 22 May 2024 10:55:38 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=22#comment-7823 I attended this school in 1961 before moving to Kinning Park to attend lambhill st infant school

]]> Comment on SIR JOHN MAXWELL SCHOOL by Elizabeth Wright https://sghet.com/project/sir-john-maxwell-school/#comment-7773 Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:32:13 +0000 https://sghet.com/?post_type=fw-portfolio&p=22#comment-7773 In reply to barry jackson.

My mum and her sisters attended this school, between 1930-1945

]]> Comment on First Hampden Park archaeological dig by Hampden Park (1873–1883) – My Blog https://sghet.com/first-hampden-park-archaeological-dig/#comment-7747 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:46:16 +0000 https://sghet.com/?p=8621#comment-7747 […] First Hampden Park archaeological dig, Thomas Oldham, South Glasgow Heritage Environment Trust, 16 June […]

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