Anybody know Milngavie?.....

Post by **joette** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:24 pm

Despite having being born & brought up not too far from Milngavie my knowledge of it is very scant mainly the scandal of the contamination of the Murdogh Resv.
I am trying to find out where Woodlawns Place would have been in the 1870s.I cant find it on todays map & wondered if anybody had any ideas.?

Sue Erskine · Post by **Sue Erskine** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:21 pm

Hi Joette

Have you looked on Old Maps: http://www.old-maps.co.uk

I can't see Woodlawns Place but there is a Woodlands showing.

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Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:32 am

Hello Joette

Well now, that's nice, I've found something I might actually be able to help with. I see this was posted last October so maybe you have all the info you need by now.

However - my husband and I managed the Black Bull Hotel in Milngavie for 17 years. Oh, it was great, just great - centre of the community and all that. My husband ran a jazz club and a folk club. I remember Billy Connolly when he was with the Humble Bums strutting his stuff in a white suit! We had very well known Jazz musicians too but the great thing with the folk club (called the MAFIA by Bobby Harvey who ran it - Milngavie Accordion and Fiddlers' Instrumental Association) was that a large part of the audience came with their instruments and they would just be shouted up to the front by name, "Key of F boys - 1, 2, 3 - and off they would go". Some real states left the Bull after those sessions but boy, it was good.

It was a former coaching inn and had been built beside an old Drove Road. We even had a 17th Century well in the reception area, covered by glass, needless to say. One day the beer pipes to the public bar burst and the well developed a most impressive "Head"! It is now a Marks & Spencer. The developers left the frontage and demolished everything else - no more well

.

While we were there the lounge bar was "themed" on the Best family who had owned it in the early 1900s. Of course the bar was renamed the "Best Bar". I collected in a lot of old photos and after the event a complete set were donated to the Bearsden Public Library. There was one of the Woodlands area I know.

Tomorrow I shall phone a friend in Milngavie and get you details about Woodlands Place. There has been a lot of redevelopment in that area of Milngavie and I rather think it will be no more, but photos should be available.

Pretty sure that was one of the areas where the Irish labourers who built the Mugdock reservoir lived.

Will get back.

Lorna

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:53 pm

Hi Lorna
I've sent you a PM re. the Black Bull.

Best wishes
Lesley

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:26 pm

Hello
I remember Milngavie. It's at the start of the West Highland Way. I'm being nosey but, what is the lowdown on the Black Bull.
I can't wait for the sequal
MM

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:33 pm

Hi Malcolm
Check out my post regarding the Black Bull from some time ago:
http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic. ... light=bull

Best wishes
Lesley

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:20 pm

Hello Joette

Have sent you a PM re Woodlands Place.

Lorna

Post by **joette** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:56 am

Got your PM & have replied.I will have a call to the library re that or will ask Nephews fiancee to pop in for me.
Janet lLiddel Christie nee Scott who lived/died there Husband was a Papermaker & they had the manager lodging with them in the 1861 Census so I was expecting a more "up-market" neighbourhood.

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:45 pm

Hi Joette

Woodlands was just off Mugdock Road and Woodlands House was right on Mugdock Road. Mugdock Road is quite posh and the other side of Mugdock Road, Tannoch Loch area is VERY posh. It is quite probable that Woodlands was 'mixed'!

You really got me going on Milngavie memories. Looked out all my old Milngavie photos, had a chat with Sharon in the Bearsden Library and am going down to look at the album we put together and left there - 58 photies, no bad! There seem to be a few pictures of Woodlands but not one of Woodlands Place specifically.

Old Pa Best who ran the Black Bull had 9 daughters many of whom helped in the establishment. (One is enough for me

)

Regards

Lorna

Post by **joette** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:49 pm

Thanks for that Lorna.Did you get my PM re the Torrances? I have Torrances who originate in Stranraer then onto Ayrshire & end up in Lanarkshire.Andrew Torrance born Stranraer c1821,dalry 1851 with wife Margeret Barnes & son James Torrance both born Ballantrae.
I think Andrew's father is James born Ireland.