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Mention is made of the Walker family, who were the owners of the popular 'Walker's of Partick' store on Dumbarton Road.
This 1955 view looking east along Dumbarton Road to Partick Cross shows several women inspecting the latest ladies' fashions
in Walker's of Partick's window display. Next to Walker's is the entrance to Partick Cross Underground Station
(subsequently renamed Kelvinhall).
Returning to Scotstounhill, further along Anniesland Road a series of late Victorian, mock Tudor terraced house were
constructed – providing homes for suburban commuters following the opening of Scotstounhill station in 1887 (shown here
shortly after their completion).
These houses, nos 583 - 585 Anniesland Road, are 'a self-consciously asymmetrical pair, dated 1891, with much
half-timbering, Olde English rather than Scottish vernacular' (ibid).
During my research I discovered that steps were taken during 1910 to acquire ground in Scotstounhill for the laying out of
a cemetery! The project was the brainchild of A.A. Hagart Spiers, a wealthy Laird and noted Orangeman. Hagart Spiers
established a company named The Scotstounhill Cemetery Company Limited and assumed a directorship after donating £139 to the
project. Due to lack of public support, however, the scheme fell through and all contributions were refunded to the
donors. There is no indication of where the proposed cemetery would have been situated in the area.
There were a number of farms in and around the Scotstounhill area. To the east, on the present day Southbrae Drive,
were farmlands belonging to the Stirling family of Windyedge Farm. Records note that in 1881 the area was farmed by Allan
Stirling with help from two men and three girls. In this photo, a farmhand (perhaps Mr Stirling himself) is feeding the
poultry in the forecourt of Windyedge Farmhouse sometime during the early 1900s.
Mr Stirling was still tending to the Farm well into the 21st century — correspondence regarding the widening of Anniesland
Road in 1922 details that he made a claim against the Glasgow Corporation on 17 March 1925 for damage to his fields abutting
the road in the sum of £183.12.3.
 
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