Castlemilk History

23/06/2024

Some old 'Castlemilk Fair' days... Can you see yourself in any of these photos... A wee blast from the past... 😁🎉💕🎉💕
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Tag yourselves... lol

10/06/2024

08/06/2024

Where would we be without these people who cared enough to get out there and Campaign for Castlemilk... Thanks be to them... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Social events/campaigns/activities that Happened in Castlemilk that the people fought to have changed...

06/06/2024

In Memory of Big Rab Paterson... 6 years ago today... GBNF... R.I.P. Rab... :'(

Happen to come across one of Castlemilk's well kent faces Mr Rab Paterson and his jazzy guitar... :) Thanks for letting me take your photo Rab... :)
Former C Sharp Worker...
And for all the Folk Festivals you organised in the past... Brought so many famous faces to Castlemilk... Thank you...

06/06/2024

Remember this... 11 Years ago... Wow! 🪧🪧🪧😁😁

28/05/2024

I'd like to share this story of our dear friend Seamus Murphy (Shamie), of his time in Castlemilk House Children's Home. Today 29th May is Shamie's 10 years anniversary (R.I.P. Shamie) He was an invaluable source of information with his sad, funny and interesting stories...
A very interesting person with a fabulous life story to tell... We were so glad we crossed paths back in 2011 on the Glasgow Guide website. We hit it off straight away... 💕 Wonderful...
We at Castlemilk History were in awe of him, truly... Loved listening to his stories and would sit open-mouthed when he told his stories... As this was our first time hearing about Castlemilk House during the war years... Thank you Shamie, forever in our hearts here in Castlemilk and beyond... 💖 And thank you to Shamie's family for allowing us to continue to share his stories. 💕💕 We miss you. 😢

If you click on each photo, there are links in the comments leading to more of Seamus's stories...

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I stumbled upon Seamus’s comments in the Glasgow Guide Discussion Boards. ( http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20034&st=0&gopid=3558242& ) website by chance... in 2011

He had started a thread (Conversation) on there about his stay in Castlemilk’s Children’s Home in the 1940’s... And During WW2

Well, that just captured my attention immediately... And from that day on, we became cyber friends... I introduced him to a link on my Castlemilk History page with all the old pictures of Castlemilk House/Children’s Home etc...
I think Seamus was so delighted to see the place again as it was his childhood home... And he did have fun there, he assured me!
So, from that ‘Valentine’s day’, 14 February 2011, he captured our heart...

15/04/2024

A Tennant Farmers Map of the whole of Castlemilk in 1951. Just before they started building our Castlemilk Housing Scheme. The first tenants moved into Castlemilk in 1955... In the Machrie area...
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This is the Tenant Farmers Map for Castlemilk in 1951, just before the housing scheme was built. This is the area for the proposed housing scheme. You can see what area's each farmer had, and the names of each area.
Mid Netherton was farmed by James Craig. He had 104 acres.
Laigh Netherton - Alex Borland.
(Laigh means Small Valley or Hollow).
High Netherton - Archibald Borland.
West Castleton - Mrs Alan Bowes.
East Castleton - Henry Burns.
East Castleton (Grazing only) Mrs G Twaddle.
Windlaw - James Clark.
Gallowhill - John Baird.
Muirside - James Fleming.
Croftfoot - Thomas Campbell.
Bowhouse - Christopher Strang.
(Bowhouse area is the Ballantay area of Castlemilk).

10/04/2024

A memory of 10 years ago... When we found out that Castlemilk House was used for evacuees from Guernsey during the 2nd World War Years... Wow!

To Glasgow from Alderney, Guernsey
I was contacted by Anna Stuart of Cassiltoun Housing Association, in the Stables, as I was a former member of Castlemilk History Group. It was about Castlemilk House During the Second World War... We knew that there were Evacuees from Guernsey, in the Home, but we didn't have much information at all about it, or even conformation on this, we only had a faded photocopy of children (all Boys) taken outside the home with the Nurses in the 1940's and that was not confirmed until very recently that they were evacuees from Guernsey...
So Anna had contact from The Lord Provost's secretary about this man called John Glasgow, (ironically), who had done some research and only recently found out that he'd been sent to Castlemilk House as a child... and he was now in Glasgow, so it was arranged for us all to meet in the Lord Provost's Office for tea and 'Revelations'.
John was only age 3 in June 1940 when he arrived with his mother and had indeed been evacuated to Glasgow from Alderney, Guernsey. His father had enlisted and was off fighting in the war... His mother was ill with TB when they arrived in Glasgow and she was sent to Ruchill Hospital and John was sent to Castlemilk House... Where other evacuees were sent... John's mother sadly died and was buried in Sighthill Cemetery, but he didn't know all this for over 70 years... He was going to see his mother's grave after our meeting today and the Evening Times will carry the story in April 11 2014 edition.
I will not tell you all the story here as I have posted a copy of the Evening Times edition. I copied some information for John, to take back to Guernsey, with photos of Castlemilk house, the evacuees photo, the fireplace, although he was very young and only has one memory of seeing rows of cots... So I gave John, a copy of Seamus Murphy's story of his time during the war years, (as a child in Castlemilk House) so he can see that it was a good place to be as Seamus had happy memories of his time in the 1940's in Castlemilk house. John's story is a fascinating and sad story. What a lovely day we had... Thank you Anna, for inviting me to meet John, what a privilege and honour... :)

01/04/2024

Why don't you give this page a like... Really interesting History connected to Castlemilk... https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557764731186

A unique, free, multimedia tour with 16 QR coded video stops around Glasgow's last remaining village.

27/03/2024

This is the story that's been kept under wraps for a few months while further archaeological investigations were taking place in Castlemilk Park... After the January Storm of 2012 that damaged so much of the city... Including many fallen trees in Castlemilk Park. A few members of the "How Old Are Yew" group, took a walk around the park on the 5th of January to see the damage... And Luckily stumbled across the tree in question... A Large Larch Tree was uprooted, with the bottles sticking out of it... Some of the group were able there and then to pull the bottles out, knowing that they would have to go back as there were too many to carry. It was the deposits of a midden area/ditch belonging to the mansion house... So we went back to collect more bottles and soon involved "Glasgow Museums", who advised, helped and guided us on the rest of the investigation, and helped with a small trial dig... And have kindly provided our Display cabinet... More information and photos will be posted soon... Meanwhile this display of some of the bottles are currently on view in the Stables Entrance...

26/03/2024

This sounds fabulous...
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21/03/2024

For ex Grange Secondary Pupils... Death notice of Dear Mr Miller Frondigoun, who died 1st March 2024...
His Funeral was yesterday. Sorry I've just found out, would have went to pay my respects... :'( R.I.P. Mr Frondigoun... Loved the Folk singing Sessions you done Sir! :') You can leave a tribute to him if you want on the link of the paper... Or here at Castlemilk History page... https://www.heraldscotland.com/.../30602922.miller.../...

18/03/2024

Some of Castlemilk's ancient history... 🏰🥛

A collection of photographs Relating to the Stirling Stuarts of Castlemilk, who lived in Castlemilk Castle/House until 1938 - The Death of the Laird, William Crawfurd Stirling Stuart...

17/03/2024

R.I.P. Steve Harley, who died this morning... :'( This is him in Castlemilk Community Centre 1994 for one of the Festivals. I was there and shook his hand that day... Not too big for his boots that he would do a small venue like Castlemilk... A lovely down to earth guy... He will be missed... :'( Thank you for coming to Castlemilk... 💔 Photo by Jimmy Stirling...

Steve Harley... 1994 By Jimmy Stirling...

09/03/2024

Mitchellhill Primary, Castlemilk,1959.
Designed by Corporation’s Architectural Department, there were three buildings each built of concrete blocks faced with brick. Embedded in the concrete was small wire designed to heat the school electrically.
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02/03/2024

World Book Day is coming up on Thursday 7th of March 2024... 📚So take advantage of this early 'Free Gift' of our Castlemilk Books 📚for your Mobile phone, Tablet or PC and Laptop and download a free copy of both, 'The Incomplete History of Castlemilk', 📚 and 'The Big Flit' 📚... You will love them and maybe even finish reading them before World Book Day... 📚📚📚📚 Whatever you do, enjoy, 😁😁 with compliments from Castlemilk History page... 🏰🥛📚📚📚📚
Click on the link below to download...

24/02/2024

A wee reminder of Castlemilk History's early days...

21/02/2024

Wow! The Pond is looking Fabulous, Well done Everyone... 👍 Thank you...

Brilliant to see! The fence is now fixed! Like a tree fall never happened 😀

08/02/2024

The complete Book of 'The Incomplete History of Castlemilk'.

The whole back to back copy of "The Incomplete History of Castlemilk". As you can no longer get it in print, I thought I would scan the whole book for you to read... So get your Lap-Top's out and prepare for some bed time reading, of the History of your own area... Enjoy... This book was published in 1993.