These are the deeds for a house in Queen Square, #Strathbungo, a particularly complete set, including wills and financial records. While not always easy to decipher, they provide a unique insight into the history of a house, and a neighbourhood. #deeds #househistory #glasgow #history #architecture

Just saw my first Strathbungo hedgehog 🦔. So Glaswegian, it was drinking a can of Magners Cider.

This is hilarious. Everyone to Kenmure Street has a lot to answer for 😂

Just discovered this delightful view of Queens Park from c 1913, with the flagpole in the centre background. Noise is shown coming from the bandstand to the right. The Victoria infirmary is visible to the left. The large house in the centre... #Glasgow #Langside #History #VictoriaInfirmary

Tell shitty City Property to sling their hook. Viva Trongate103! www.change.org/p/save-trong...

Mrs McIntyre was Janet Auld (1852-1916), the wife of Archibald McIntyre. Her father-in-law was Andrew McIntyre, who built the terrace. In 1851 Andrew took his new wife and infant son Archibald half way round the world to join the Aussie Gold Rush, and live in a tent. #Strathbungo

My research might have been a bit quicker had I noticed it says underneath "Successor to WJ Moffat" 🤦😁

A new ghost sign revealed in Strathbungo yesterday, as the old Marchtown shop front at 741 Pollokshaws Road is replaced. It is for K Scatchard, Chemists & Opticians. #strathbungo #glasgow #ghostsign #glasgowghostsigns #glasgowhistory

The annual unsystematic selection of pics from Strathbungo Window Wanderland. 🧵

Just started reading Cory Doctorow's book. How topical. #enshittification

This is outrageous. Council took public arts money to set this up, encouraged organisations in at affordable rents, then pulled the rug from under them.

Smart use of Goad's fire maps!

An excellent education in mud.

John Baillie Hamilton was a Glasgow-trained veterinary surgeon who lived at 57 Marywood Square in Strathbungo. He devised a novel way of reducing the suffering of horses. He electrified the Glasgow Corporation Tramways.

As Rutherglen begins its 900 year celebrations, I note 57 Marywood Square, Strathbungo, was home to William Murray, owner of the immense Caledonian Pottery, once Rutherglen's largest employer, but now buried under the M74. A new house history on BygoneBungo. #Rutherglen900 #Strathbungo #Pottery

Love a bit of local history. If you count Canada as local.

Why do we even have these in Strathbungo's streets?

My final #AustraliaDay tale is a brand-new discovery; how a Strathbungo builder, Andrew McIntyre, became a key figure in a riot, insurrection and the birth of democracy in Australia.

Matilda Terrace and Titwood Place are two tenements that face each other across Nithsdale Road, #Strathbungo. Both have strong connections to #Australia. Matilda Terrace, as it was originally, houses watering holes Tabacs (ex The Bungo) and Bossa (ex Sammy Dows). #Australiaday #Glasgow #Sydney

Today is #AustraliaDay, (or Invasion Day if you prefer) so coming up, three #Strathbungo links to #Australia. The third is entirely new. Firstly, at 24 Moray Place were RA Robertson, sugar refining manufacturer & builder of Britain’s first diesel engine, and his Australian wife, Elizabeth Ritter.

I spotted an old advert on the excellent Scottish Brick History website that prompted me to dig into the origins of Nithsdale Drive and the ring of tenements that includes Salisbury Quadrant and March Street Police Station. Building started in 1880. #Strathbungo #McIntyre #glasgow #architecture

Nicely restored chimney on what was once 16 Regent Park Terrace, a former home of John Bennie Wilson, architect, founder member of, and striker for, Third Lanark. The original fell in a 2025 gale. It was rebuilt by Strathbungo mason Karl Schweps. Perfect colour matching too. (Original on the right.)

While on Betty Gow, Lindbergh became the most famous man in America, an all American hero. The state of Minnesota almost renamed itself Lindberghia. But when he made a 1941 speech on his alt-right, America First, fascist world view, Americans dropped him overnight.

Today was the day in 1935 when Scottish nurse Betty Gow gave her evidence in the "Crime of the Century", the kidnap and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby son. Quite an ordeal for the innocent young lady from #Strathbungo #bettygow #lindbergh

Happy 54th birthday to The Strathbungo Society! 🎂 For a potted history of the Society's early years, and how we got our name, read on... bygone.bungoblog.com/wp/the-birth...

Perish the thought that you might want to get married in church. An account of the first wedding to take place in a parish church in Pollokshaws, in 1877. Some old worthies at the back muttered "this was unco like popery".

Quick shout out to two Victorian businesses I came across during some research this week. J & G Mossman, monumental sculptors, and J & R Anderson, decorators. Both are still trading to this day!

8 Moray Place, whose first resident was Margaret Hay Spence, and her husband James Simpson, a jeweller. Margaret was born in Haroldswick on Unst, in almost the most northerly house in Britain.

No 7 Moray Place, home of Mike & Hilary Stanger, fundamental to the founding of The Strathbungo Society in the early 1970s.

Did my first ever #Strathbungo walking tour for Glasgow Doors Open Day in conjunction with @sghetorg.bsky.social and The Strathbungo Society. Tours are fully subscribed but it was good fun and I might do it again sometime. Watch this space. #GDODF25 #gdodf #glasgowheritage

So for Doors Open Day I've joined with #SGHET and I'm getting out on the streets for a wee tour. 📣 Strathbungo Walking Tour 📆 Fri 19th or Sat 20th Sept at 1pm ~ book here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathbung... #GDODF #GFODF25 #Glasgow850 #heritagetrail #Glasgow

Great thread!

William McIntosh moved into 15 Regent Park Square around Christmas 1895 (having been at no 6 a few years earlier). He was an inspector with Glasgow Police Force, and their tug-o-war captain. But he was more famous as the father of the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. #Strathbungo #househistory

Another resident at 15 Regent Park Square was Peter Niven, former factor at Househill in Nitshill. He managed the Victoria coal pit there at the time of the great pit explosion of 1851 that claimed the lives of 61 men and boys. It was, at the time, the worst recorded Scottish mining disaster.

15 Regent Park Square wasn’t just the home of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Aberfeldy-born Rev John Duff Macgregor was resident in the 1870s. He was minister of Stockwell Street Free Church (which was actually in Howard Street). #Strathbungo #househistory #charlesrenniemackintosh

Excellent podcast by @sghetorg.bsky.social with Cameron Winton leading us round the industrial history of the White Cart in Linn Park. glad.radio/sside-chron-...

The game's afoot! Great #househistory sleuthing from Andy Arthur.

You can read the full #househistory of 17 Regent Park Square here. #Strathbungo #JamesBond #ianfleming

And so to my favourite resident of 17 Regent Park Square. The house was owned by the Skaifes from 1947, but in the 1950s they had a lodger, one Mr Boothroyd. Harold Skaife and Geoffrey Boothroyd were avid fans of the #JamesBond novels, but Geoffrey was also a gun expert. And Ian Fleming wasn't.

Jane and Elizabeth Aitken were sisters who purchased 17 Regent Park Square around 1882-5. Their upbringing was odd, to say the least.

Andrew McAllan was the son of a calico printer from Bonhill, on the River Leven. He and his brother owned the Dillichip Works there. He had offices in town, and lived off Paisley Road West. He married Margaret Guthrie of Bonhill in 1850 and had a large family, but.. #househistory #strathbungo

31 Regent Park Square #Strathbungo was built by Daniel McNicol in 1864. McNicol didn't make it to 50, dying in 1872. He was one of at least three Strathbungo builders I have identified who died before they were 50. The first occupant was there only briefly, and died the following year at a mere 33.

Great stuff, right up my street as it were. Thought Glasgow was rough, but Strathbungo can't match this.

Spotted a ghost sign in Cathcart Road yesterday. James Campbell & Sons, bakers and confectioners, were at 545 Cathcart Road from c.1920 to at least 1941. @ghostsignsgla #glasgow #ghostsigns

Familiar, yet strangely foreign.

The incredible shrinking Moray Place cat.

Foreign, yet strangely familiar.

Anyone in the gardens?

Here's another #househistory for #Strathbungo, this time 38 Queen Square, built in 1866 by Daniel McNicol.