Blythswood Square, Glasgow

[nelmit]

Ermmmmm a'm a wee bit worried 'cos 1 Blythswood Square is my bank an' naebiddy's telt me it wis movin'.


I just had another look at it and the publication date was October 2006.


Merlot

I haven't been inside a bank for about 4 years.

[AndrewP]

Ah, wrong Robert Ferguson - that one was in Ruchill Fever Hospital, Maryhill.

Now I see the correct Robert Ferguson. The header information describes all of the sections of streets including parts of Blythswood Square. Also detailed there are two larger premises, neither of them 1 Blythswood Square.

1st - The Glasgow Sick Poor and Nursing Association, 218 Bath Street - Miss Berwick, Matron, which can accommodate including servants about 36.

2nd - The Scotch Girls Friendly Society, 214 Bath Street, Miss Roberta Campbell, Matron, which accommodates including servants about 35.

Back to the drawing board for 1 Blythswood Square.

On looking at the census page for 1 Blythsoood Square, no description is given. The first three people there are listed as hospital trained nurses, followed by a list of patients (male and female, aged 15 upwards).

All the best,

AndrewP

[Jamboesque]

Folks,

Seeing as we’re discussing things Blythswood I have a wee query for more knowledgeable than myself on things Glasgow.

My G-G Granny (Mary (Balfour) Jolly 1823-1898) died on a street corner in Glasgow but usual residence is quoted on her death cert as 203 Blythswood Gardens Glasgow.

I have consulted http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ in an attempt to find out if such a street existed in the past but to no avail. The informant is her son-in-law James Reid who hails from Courtown, Gorey County Wexford so he might have been confused but I would have thought that the Registrar would have queried the address if it was not real.

Can anyone help me out with what or where the residence was, she had I would think a reasonable income, at least she did when her husband died in 1888 though I’m pretty sure she moved to Ireland for a period of time. Oh I’ve checked the RCE relating to the death and the address is repeated in an even clearer hand.

Thanks

Jack

[emanday]

I can't see it on the 1913 Glasgow valuation rolls either, I'm afraid.

[Jack]

Hi Jack,
As Jean said to me a wee while back; we have names that don't blend well with "Hi"....
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From the very useful "A Guide to Glasgow Addresses, Part 2" by Susan Miller.

Blythswood Gardens: West Princes Street, both sides, c.200.

This would suggest that a portion of the buildings on both sides of West Princes St. were named Blythswood Gardens.
I'm unsure that it would be both sides - but possibly it was.

It happens a lot in Glasgow, elsewhere too, that a street has many parts of it named Gardens, Place, Terrace etc.
These actually form part of the main street that they are on.
The names can still be seen on many buildings in Glasgow - usually on corner tenements.

So the address could possibly also have been written as Blythswood Gardens, 203 West Princes Street, Glasgow.
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You'll find West Princes St at one of Andrew's favourite sites...mine too!

http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/townplans.html

Select Glasgow [1892-4]
Select centre square
Select VI.6.18 (3rd wee box from left; 2nd down)
West Princes runs NW from the right hand side of the map.
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I was up there a month or two ago looking for something.
Not sure what it was for; need to find the notebook....
It was something to do with side streets and the West Princes St. numbers.
I know i couldn't quite make sense of them at the time.
Jack

[G.Love]

Slightly off topic, but I've just been reading about one of Scotland's most sensational murders of the 19th century. The alleged poisoner, one Madeleine Smith, lived in Blytheswood Square.

[Falkyrn]

In the 1912/13 valuation rolls 1 Blythswood Square is listed as a Nursing Home

[AndrewP]

In the 1910 telephone directory on Ancestry, 1 Blythswood Square can be found as the Central Nursing Home (Calderhead and Lindsay), which goes along with the entry in the valuation roll showing the Nursing Home tenant as Mary Lindsay.

In the telephone directory, search for surname Nursing Home to find this one amongst many more.

All the best,

AndrewP

[Jamboesque]

Jack - Hi (that's not right either )

I had labouriously gone through looking through the NLS maps for Blythswood Gardens, looking the length of Blythswood Street and of course not finding it. hence the post here...

It never occurred to me that the address would be hidden on another steeet name though the same thing has happened on street where
I live in Edinburgh, Duh!!!! But I would not have thought of accessing the Guide by Susan Miller, so thanks for that.

In order to help visualise the changes from old maps to today what I do is to call up Google Maps, in a separate window, and scale the Google map to the Old map toggling between the to views and changing the Google map from Map to Satellite view. Though this can only work if Google has the image at a good enough resolution..

Thanks again, that's another 'Tick in the Conundrum Box Fixed'

Jack

[emanday]

There's nothing to beat getting your Conundrums ticked, Jack