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This extract from the 1895 Ordnance Survey map shows Muttonhole Farm (designed as "Scotstounhill Farm" at this point)
to the north, and Windyedge Farm on the newly-formed Southbrae Drive. Also detailed are the villas on Oswald Drive
centred around the Scotstounhill railway station. Note the absence of houses beyond the bridge. Indeed, the small
stretch of land we now know as Queen Victoria Gate has yet to be formed.
Further south of Lincoln Avenue, at the corner of Anniesland Road, stood Muttonhole Cottages. These quaint buildings
were entirely separate from Muttonhole Farm, and indeed were technically within the bounds of Windyedge Farm to the
east. Shown here in a rare colour postcard view circa 1905 are the whitewashed Muttonhole school buildings standing
to the right of the red brick schoolmaster's house. One official record states that in 1790 George Oswald (of the Scotstoun Oswald
family) submitted five guineas towards the purchase of this schoolmaster’s house.
Today the site is occupied by a telephone exchange and a newly-refurbished red brick residential structure (built circa 1920).
These more modern constructions were built in adherence with the original feu boundaries – hence the strange appointment
of the latter building.
Despite the dramatic change in appearance of this small area, there is evidence of some continuity of use: picture
postcards from the late 19th and early 20th century show many morse telegraph poles traversing Muttonhole. Part of the current site, as mentioned,
functions as a busy telephone interchange station.
 
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