Bridgeton, Glasgow
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Bridgeton is a district to the south-east of Glasgow city centre. It is bounded by Glasgow Green to the west, Dalmarnock to the east and south and Calton to the north-west at Abercrombie Street/ London Road. It used to be bounded by a village named Mile-End to the north, however this district seems to have vanished over the years, resulting in Bridgeton's boundary moving north to Crownpoint Road. It started as a small weaving village in 1705, when the third John Walkinshaw marked out a portion of his Goosefauld estate for rent. However not much interest was shown until 1775 when Rutherglen Bridge was constructed across the River Clyde and the area became known as Bridge Town. A staunchly Protestant neighbourhood, the problematic integration of Irish Catholics into the surrounding areas in the early twentieth century provided the inspiration for the well-known Scottish sectarian song, the Billy Boys, being an ode to the infamous 1920s/30s Glasgow Razor-Gang leader strike-breaker and fascist William Fullerton.
Bridgeton also has one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed by the Inverness architect, James Robert Rhind.
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