glencairn drive

Maisie · Post by **Maisie** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:43 pm

Hi Elaine

I hesitate to disagree with a couple of locals, but according to the Royal Mail website there are at least two tenement blocks in Glencairn Drive, although neither includes 102. I wonder if they were reumbered at some stage, or could the number on the birth certificate be something else?

I use the Royal Mail postcode finder and Google earth to do virtual tours of my ancestral haunts as parts of Scotland are on very high resolution. If you have access to Google Earth put in postcode G41 4QN you'll see a 4 sided block enclosing a small green, with another larger block to the south. Glencairn Lane appears to run through the larger block. If you can't access Google Earth I could send you an image if you let me have your e-mail address by PM - provided I can work out how to do it!

Maisie

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:17 pm

Greetin's Maisie,
You kin disagree wey us oanytime ye like pal.
Especially when yer right.
The reason I was asking, was that there appeared tae be too mony faimiles living at the same number at the turn of the century.

http://www.s1rental.com/renting/search/ ... 1037.shtml

How did oor Annette miss thaem?

And it's no cheap tae stey in the Sou'side is it?
Oanywan waant tae rent a flat oan Cathcart Road

(pic in Gallery)
http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-754

Davie
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nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:35 pm

Sorry, I suppose I was just being a wee bit too local

. I know the flats (some of which have been built in the last 10 years so I didn't even count them) but because of the number (102) in Glencairn Drive I knew it couldn't be a flat as they are low numbers - I have a friend who lives in one. Most of the newer higher numbered flats are on the left hand side of the road which makes them odd numbers.
Apart from the new flats the houses in this road are still the ones you can see in the postcard.
Maisie, I often use The Royal Mail method when looking for an area I don't know.
If you look at Davie's postcard - Number 68 is where the carriage is and that is the last even numbered house in Glencairn Drive - the green area at the right of the picture is a tennis club and then new flats.
Houses are and always have been (as far as I know) numbered from the city centre out with evens on the right and odds on the left and if you look at an old map of Glencairn Drive it is still exactly the same.

Hopefully Elaine will get back to us with more info.

Kind regards,
Annette

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:02 pm

Hi Annette,

Maisie, I often use The Royal Mail method when looking for an area I don't know.

Guid wan, never thocht o' that before.
I tend to check estate agents, when looking for streets that are still in existence.
The prices of hooses in Glasgow, scare the Shi....livin' daylights oot o' ex-Weegies that are in touch wey me.
£150.000 furr a flat in The Gorbals!!
Will eventually get tae Glencairn Drive, furr a nosy this week.

Davie

spears · Post by **spears** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:44 pm

hi there to all you have very kindly been trying to find 102 glencairn drive. sorry i have not got back sooner. through my genes connected site i had info that stated 102 glencairn drive as the no which my grandad was born at. by the looks of things this could well be wrong as all the info you have all got seems to point to that fact. i'll have another look at the document which was forwarded to me and i'll get back to you soon. thanks a lot elaine

spears · Post by **spears** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:52 pm

hi there. just had a look and apparently it was on the 1891 census, but as some of the figures and nos are quite distorted then maybe the info i have been given is incorrect. i'll have to look my self when i can get more credits on the scots people site and with any luck i can work it out. if not i may be back. sorry to all those who have looked for me , your efforts are much appreciated. take care all, elaine

spears · Post by **spears** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:14 am

hi there again, just been told that my grandad was born 102 glencairn drive GOVAN not pollok shields,sorry!-i beleieve in the kinning park area. does anyone have photos new or old of this address or tell me where i may look, thanks for yor time all, elaine

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:07 pm

Hi Elaine,
Not too sure about Glencairn Drive ever classed as being in Govan, but as it is only a 10 minute walk from the one in Pollokshields to Kinning Park.
I would guess it is the same one, and Govan stetched a fair bit at the particular time you are looking at.
Is it the McGregor family you are looking at?
Awrabest
Davie

spears · Post by **spears** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:16 am

hi davie, not looking at any family really just trying to find the add which my grandad lived in when a child, thanks for info though ,i'll keep looking , cheers elaine

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:41 pm

Again Elaine,

I was in the Angel bar yesterday, most of the punters in ther' are Kinnin' Park boays (no tae be confused wey Bhoys, in this neck o' the wood)
I got a phone call this morning.
One theory on Glencairn Drive, was, that half of it was in Pollokshields, the other in Kinning Park.
This could have been the case in the year you are looking at.
It is a thought.
Davie