Jordanhill Local History

Jordanhill is a residential area

situated in the west end of Glasgow

north of the Clyde Tunnel

Welcome to the website of

Stuart McLean

I moved to Jordanhill in 1958 and during the last 30 years I have researched and gathered an extensive collection of maps, photographs and articles about the history of the area. The possibility of writing a book has always been at the back of my mind but rejected on two counts; (a) a small book would contain only a fraction of the available data and (b) a big book would cost the earth to produce and no one might buy it.

The advent of the web has created the perfect medium where I can publish articles as I go along, revise, add photos and withdraw material at will. I have compiled the following pages (or chapters) to date but I am working on others, so watch this space for more facts about this lovely area of Glasgow. If the following topics on Jordanhill are all printed out they will fill about 120 pages of A4.

Most pages have photographs and maps which may take a little time to load unless you are using broadband.

For the following topics, click on the hyperlink

Old Jordanhill in photographs http://www.wsmclean.com/bygones

Jordanhill from the air, aerial photos http://www.wsmclean.com/aerialphotos

Jordanhill in Old Maps 1654 1905 http://www.wsmclean.com/oldmaps2

Jordanhill south of the railway http://www.wsmclean.com/south

Jordanhill and the Railways http://www.wsmclean.com/railways

Jordanhill and mining http://www.wsmclean.com/mining

Road names in Jordanhill http://www.wsmclean.com/jroads.

The Smiths of Jordanhill http://www.wsmclean.com/Smiths

The Oswalds of Scotstoun http://www.wsmclean.com/Oswalds

St John and Montgomerie Jordanhill connections http://www.wsmclean.com/St John

Jordanhill School and the Press 1985-89 http://www.wsmclean.com/JCSpress

Jordanhill Church, foundation stone http://www.wsmclean.com/stone

Jordanhill Church, 150^th Birthday http://www.wsmclean.com/150years

All Saints&apos Church 100^th Birthday http://www.wsmclean.com/allsaints

History of Jordanhill by W Campbell, 1932 http://www.wsmclean.com/campbell

Compass Observatory of Jordanhill http://www.wsmclean.com/observatory2

Jordanhill&aposs shop and Compass Cottages http://www.wsmclean.com/shop

Jordanhill Sport and Leisure http://www.wsmclean.com/leisure

References and book list http://www.wsmclean.com/booklist

Local shopping, past and present http://www.wsmclean.com/localshopping

Mackintosh and Jordanhill School http://www.wsmclean.com/Mackintosh

Jordanhill School Memories (Finlayson) http://www.wsmclean.com/finlayson

Jordanhill Community Council http://www.wsmclean.com/JCC

Election 2005, our constituency boundary map http://www.wsmclean.com/election2005

Another of my interests is

Hillhead High School

In the spring of 2003 I started to research the present whereabouts of all my classmates from Hillhead High School which I left in June 1954 at the end of the 5^th year. It was an interesting project and I set up an individual website for the exercise but the free web host which I used has now closed down. I have included here some of the photographs which were on the original site.

A resume of the HHS project http://www.wsmclean.com/hillhead54

Class photographs of my year taken in October 1952 http://www.wsmclean.com/Class photographs

Senior Staff in 1952 http://www.wsmclean.com/Senior Staff

Help wanted with Primary Staff Photo 1952 http://www.wsmclean.com/primstaff

Brief biographical note:

I am a retired chartered civil engineer, a graduate of Glasgow University, and have lived in Glasgow for over 70 years. My interests are local history, family history, DIY, family and grandchildren. Have been secretary of Jordanhill Community Council since 1975.

I retain copyright on all my material and where possible I acknowledge sources.

I trust I have not inadvertently infringed anyone else's copyright.

Please contact me if you can add any additional details, if you find any errors

or you wish more information.

My e-mail address is stuart@wsmclean.com

Website set up July 2004

Revised as at 14 January 2009