Corkerhill
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Corkerhill was originally a farm and a few houses to the southwest of Glasgow, on the Paisley Canal Line from Glasgow, and still houses engine sheds and sidings, although Corkerhill signal box was demolished in the late 1970s (originally located to the rear of the houses now facing Mosspark shops.
In the 1920s building in Glasgow expanded as far as Mosspark making Corkerhill part of the Glasgow conurbation.
In the 1960s Glasgow Corporation (now Glasgow City Council) built the Hardridge council housing estate, consisting of terraced and tenement dwellings, and the area fell into social decline, and a local gang called The Paka was a downside of this.
Later in the 1960s shops were built to address the shortage in the area, with the nearest then being in Cardonald, and Pollok. After that 'The Cart' public house was opened, as the only one in the immediate area. However the area spiralled into decline until many of the tenenemts were vandalised and empty, and most of the shops were unrented.
In the early 2000s the majority of the tenement dwellings were demolished and replaced with privately owned suburban style housing. This rebirth worked well, with the area still retaining its village identity by being bordered by the railway on one side, with Pollok Park and Nethercraigs Sports Complex on the other, while still only ten minutes on the train from Glasgow Central - attracting commuters.
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