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Sunday, 1st August 2010

 
Bishopbriggs


Bishopbriggs shares certain elements of its history with KirKintilloch and others with Lenzie. Like Kirkintilloch it was a roadside village on a major highway from Glasgow to the east, the line of which is preserved by Crowhill Road and north of Bishopbriggs Cross by the Dow Road' (less clearly seen since the building of She Triangle".

Like Lenzie it enjoyed the benefits of a railway station from 1842, when the main Edinburgh 8G Glasgow Railway was opened. As at Lenzie, free Villa tickets' were granted to persons building large houses near the station during the 1850s (in Springfield Road). Unlike Lenzie, however, Bishopbriggs also had a fairly large working-class population during the nineteenth century, employed in the extensive quarries at Crowhill, Httntershill and Kenmure. Those provided the City of Glasgow with sandstone for its tenements and other buildings. The workers were housed in tenements at Colston and in the rows known as The Diggings' close to Bishopbriggs Cross. Later, a significant working population was employed at Cadder Colliery and housed in miners' rows at Mavis Valley and Jellyhill.

During the twentieth century Bishopbriggs reasserted itself as a desirable place of residence for Glasgow commuters. Large villas were built in Kirkintilloch Road during the early years of the century, and there was further construction of private housing during the Inter-War period (although a planned 'Garden City' at Cadder did not develop as intended). Only during the 1950s and 1960s did population growth take place on a large scale, with the development of extensive residential estates. The resultant demand for autonomy of local government led to the creation of the Burgh of Bishopbriggs, which lasted from 1964 until the Local Government Reorganisation of 1975. Local residents then successfully campaigned to be excluded from the new City of Glasgow District, and Bishopbriggs was instead located with KirKintilloch, Lenzie and other towns and villages in Strathkelvin District, for the next twenty-one years.
 
 

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