They were built at Wilson’s Lilybank Works in Glasgow’s East End, although Wilson himself lived in Strathbungo, and the works were originally directly behind the Star Bar at Eglinton Toll. There's a Strathbungo link in everything 😉

It’s housed in the fuel oil pumping station at Lyness. The huge boilers have been preserved in situ.

So I paid the excellent Scapa Flow Museum a visit this week.

My granddad was in the Royal Marines Light Infantry in WW1, I think in Scapa Flow, & possibly manning a shore battery. #ScapaFlow #Strathbungo

Snap, Morrisons in Crossmyloof Glasgow. I think it's installed back to front or up side down, and too close to the wall, but to be honest I have no idea how it is supposed to be used.

The same site now.

Pinkerton later organised the somewhat bonkers Hurricats, obsolete Hurricanes launched by rocket from the bows of convoy ships mid-Atlantic, with nowhere to land. They brought down some seven very surprised German long-range bombers, yet only lost one pilot. He got an OBE for this.

Twelve days later his wingman Archie McKellar, a Paisley plasterer, was first to shoot a bomber down over British soil, the "Humbie Heinkel".

The volunteer Auxiliary Air Force Squadron was formed in 1925 (it wasn't "Royal" until after WW2) and flew from Renfrew Airfield. It got its new southside HQ in 1927, opened by King George V. It first achieved fame by flying over the summit of Mount Everest.

Didn't realise until recently that famed 602 (City of Glasgow) AuxAF Squadron had its HQ in Coplaw Street, next to the old Third Lanark Drill Hall. Here's a potted history of 602 and the building, now sadly lost.

Bessie Henderson lived there with her daughter Helen and her baby, while Helen's husband served in WW2. His ship the Athelprincess was sunk by U-552 off Madeira, but he was rescued and put ashore in Puerto Rico. You can read the whole house history here bygone.bungoblog.com/wp/55-marywo...

Allan Jenkins was a butcher on Nithsdale Street (now Lunar), possibly working for William Bennie. His son and nephew, of the same address, gave their lives in WW1.

Another #Strathbungo #househistory. This time we're at the former 25 Princes Square, better known now as 55 Marywood Square. The first resident was Robert Murdoch, a mason who built Cragie St police & fire station, and the next Robert More, a maker & retailer of fine silk gowns on Buchanan Street.

Had fun on the Historic Strathbungo walk yesterday, until the downpour at the very end. Thanks to Cameron Winton and SHGET.com for supporting the event. Got a full turnout too. Next one will probably be Doors Open Day in September; follow "South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust" on Eventbrite.

...get your hand X-rayed in a sideshow booth at the carnival in Dennistoun. Did they nick the X-ray machine from the Royal? Glasgow, a pioneer in the field of radiology, good and bad.

It was adopted by 1900, so the gate must have been removed some time circa 1894-1900. Here's the Regent Park Square gates, which may have been removed around the same time. (The council says Strathbungo's streets were adopted on 1 Jan 1900, but I suspect that's a default date)

It was this 1894 article about the gate's proposed removal on adoption by the Corporation that made me realise it must have been there in the first place.

Just discovered that Moray Place used to be gated; there was a gate outside Alexander Greek Thomson's house at 1 Moray Place on two maps of 1893. So that adds to the previous discovery that Regent Park Square was gated too. #strathbungo #glasgowhistory #alexandergreekthomson #morayplace

Argh! The myth that will never die! Not sure where this one originated, but there's so many of these on Facebook, etc, spouting the same nonsense. This house was built in 1874 and that's the chimney flue! There's a chimney above it, bit of a clue.

I tend to ignore the theories as to the origin of the moniker Strathbungo, as none are convincing. It turns out one of the most prevalent, that Bungo is a sort of corruption of St Mungo, was made up by some shit-stirrer from Govanhill. This from the Southern Press 1895:

Dr Leslie Woodhouse Price was resident in the early 1940s. He was pathologist of the Glasgow Royal Cancer Hospital and West of Scotland Radium Institute. The hospital building survives on Hill Street Garnet Hill, although the hospital, now better known as the Beatson, moved away long ago.

Next up: Paul Campbell, a specialist in ladies' companions. Before you start tittering, they were essential sewing first aid kits no lady should be without. His firm were carvers & gilders, makers of mirrors, show cards, picture frames, photoframes, & dealt in paintings, oleographs, and chromos.

A house history for 21 Marywood Square, formerly known as 42 Princes Square. Built by James Robertson in 1884, though he then went bust. First occupant John Andersons was from a family of printers, although his uncle had jacked it in to go to sea, and became Captain of Brunel's SS Great Eastern.

Unless it opened as something else first. The Scottish New Church Association was only founded in 1880. This is ours in Strathbungo, from a little later, 1888.

This guy.

Wondering if this guy is JB Hamilton, deputy tramway manager. He was a qualified vet, who presumably was there to care for the horses, but in a genius bit of lateral thinking, did so by pioneering the electrification of the network.

However, Rev McMillan’s revival saw the creation of a new Strathbungo parish in 1879, and his fellow disgruntled residents of Strathbungo’s Squares saw that they were included. He then rebuilt the church in 1877-78. It still survives partially (frontage and tower). Both churches are now flats.

They built a new church at 40 Queen’s Drive in 1872-73. It was the first CoS parish church in the neighbourhood (Strathbungo was still technically a Chapel of Ease in Govan Parish) and they took the fledgling Strathbungo suburb with them into the new parish.

The most interesting resident was the Rev Robert McMillan, son of an Irish weaver. He was instrumental in the revival of Strathbungo Church. Some of the congregation were so frustrated by the previous minister, ageing and infirm, that they founded a neighbouring parish, Queen’s Park.

Notable for the most complete set of deeds and associated documents I have come across, revealing not only the owners, but how house purchases were financed in years gone by, and how rampant house price inflation is a new phenomenon.