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Following the opening of Connell’s Scotstoun Yard that same year, James G. Oswald constructed three rows of
cottages and a church on Victoria Park Drive, to the north of Victoria Park for the estate workers. This postcard shows
Victoria Park Drive North a decade after completion. Victoria Park is delineated by its wrought iron railings to the right of view,
skirting the Drive.
At the end of the row, as Victoria Park Drive met with Danes Drive, Oswald constructed Whiteinch Methodist Church in 1902. At this
point the area was known locally as Angle Gate. The Church survived until 1981 when it was demolished to make way for
modern housing.
The new housing development was named Angle Gate in its commemoration, and the perimeter wall and entrace pillars remain to the current day.
Thankfully, the intricate stained-glass windows that adorned the Church were rescued in 1980 by the then Deputy Curator of
Glasgow's People's Palace Museum, Michael Donnelly.
This 1979 photograph shows the Church in its final days.
The southern part of Scotstoun remains relatively unaltered and is characterised by late 19th/early 20th Century
tenements, while at its heart is a ‘grid-like estate of mainly terraced cottage style villas with distinctive English
styling in wide tree-lined streets, an early example of Ebenezer Howard-inspired garden suburb town planning which
is today a much sought after conservation area’ (Derksen, B. North West of Glasgow, 2002: p.14).
 
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