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Another area of Scotstoun developed upon was the site at the corner of Lennox Avenue and Danes Drive, which had originally
housed the St David of Scotland Episcopal Church, hall and tennis courts.
The following map, dated 1912, shows the Church ("Ch."), south of the Scotstoun Showground pavilion [sic]. The lawn
tennis courts were to the rear.
Abutting the Whiteinch Victoria Park station to the east, this modest Church was designed to plans prepared by architect
Henry Denison Walton and was completed in 1915. The Church is seen here in this circa 1910 picture postcard looking west
from the brow of the bridge on Danes Drive. Local residents recall that the Church was painted dark green and the main
entrance was accessed from Lennox Avenue.
Unfortunately the site
succumbed to modern housing needs and the Church and tennis courts were replaced with a two storey residential development
in the latter half of the 20th Century.
To the south of Lennox Avenue, again abutting the railway, once stood the Scotstoun Day Nursery. This is also shown on the
above 1912 map. Constructed sometime during the late 19th century, this small Nursery boasted a long, well tended garden.
This photo taken of the rear garden of Scotstoun Day Nursery in June 1922, shows a nursery nurse with two infants sitting up
in their uncomfortable-looking pallet beds.
Inevitably, Scotstoun Day Nursery became engulfed as land south and east of Lennox Drive was gradually developed upon
between 1913 and 1933. On the eastern side of Lennox Avenue, a residential terrace development occupied the southern
part with the semi-detached properties being constructed on the site of the Nursery.
 
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