Baillieston

Baillieston
Scottish Gaelic: Baile Bhàillidh
Scots: Byllieson
Baillieston  Baillieston shown within Glasgow
OS grid reference	NS677636
Council area	City of Glasgow
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	G69
Dialling code	0141
Police	Strathclyde
Fire	Strathclyde
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Glasgow East
Scottish Parliament	Glasgow Baillieston
	Glasgow
List of places: UK • Scotland • Glasgow

Baillieston (Scots: Byllieson, Scottish Gaelic: Baile Bhàillidh)^[1] is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It is about 7 miles east of the city centre.

It is also the name of Ward 20 of Glasgow City Council. It also appears in the Glasgow Baillieston Constituency (total population 45,895^[2]) of the Scottish Parliament, and it forms part of the Glasgow East constituency of the UK Parliament.

Contents 1 Geographical position 2 Schools 3 Churches 4 Historic buildings 4.1 Other constructions 5 Football 6 Famous People 7 References

Geographical position

Baillieston is situated west of a major interchange between the M8, M74 and M73 motorways and the A8 trunk road, between the town of Coatbridge, and the neighbouring Glasgow district of Shettleston. There is a railway station as well as the remnants of the Monkland Canal north of the district underneath the M8 motorway, at Easterhouse.

Schools

Local schools include the following:

• Bannerman High School, Glasgow Road, Baillieston.
• Caledonia Primary School, Calderwood Avenue, Muirside, Baillieston
• St Francis of Assisi Primary School, Crown Street, Baillieston.
• Garrowhill Primary School, Springhill Road, Garrowhill
• St Bridget’s Primary School, Camp Road, Baillieston.
• Swinton Primary School, Rhindmuir Road, Swinton.

Churches

There are a number of churches in Baillieston, including the original (1833) but disused Baillieston Old Parish Church in Church Street and the new (1974) Baillieston St Andrew's Church in Bredisholm Road (at the corner with Muirhead Road - http://www.standrewsbaillieston.org.uk). There are two Roman Catholic churches, St Francis of Assisi Church in Crown St and St Bridget's in Swinton Road, the latter built by the Pugin company from 1891-93. There is a small Episcopal Church of St John also in Swinton Road, built in 1850. The Mure Memorial Parish Church in Garrowhill was built as part of the garden suburb opened in 1940. There are also two Plymouth Brethren churches. Hope Hall (aka Baillieston Evangelical Church) on Church Street and Gospel Church on Glasgow Road. These two churches merged and now meet in Gospel Church while Hope Hall is mainly used by Coconut Corner Childcare Centre - http://www.coconutcorner.co.uk.

Historic buildings

• Baillieston House, was situated at the eastern end of present day Berriedale Avenue (O.S. grid ref. NS 6710 6364). A house stood there from the 17th. century. It was demolished in 1964 to make way for the housing estate.
• Calderbank House, was situated on the lands formerly known as Blackyairds above a ravine on the North Calder Water, was an early 19th century house in Baronial Style which burned down in April, 2002.
• Crosshill parish church in Church Street built in 1833 and though now superseded by the new St.Andrew's church nearby is still standing and surrounded by its graveyard.
• St Catherine’s House in Swinton Road was the original Mure Memorial Miners' Church built in 1882 and is now a home for the elderly.
• Rhindmuir House was an 18th. Century mansion, it is not known this house was demolished but a later villa built to replace it was demolished in the early 1970s.
• Bredisholm House, built around 1710 by the Muirhead family, was situated on the north bank of the North Calder Water south of present day Bargeddie.

Other constructions

• M8 Baillieston Interchange — a gateway to Glasgow constructed in 1977.

Football

Baillieston Juniors was founded in 1919 and played in their early years at a ground presently occupied by Martin Crescent but when Lanarkshire county council decided to build housing there they had to move to a field nearby at Camp Road. This ground was named Springhill Park after the name of the farm to whom it was rented from. The team played there until 1953 when they opened a new stadium at Station Road until the 1990s when the ground was sold off for housing. The team carried on, and, though they are not currently in business, they may still return to Junior football. Their greatest season was 1979-80, when they won the Scottish Junior Cup, the Glasgow Dryburgh Cup and the McLeod Cup. The star player, Davie Wilson was signed from the Juniors to Glasgow Rangers FC in 1956 and played for Scotland. In 1987, Alan Dinnie left the Juniors to play for Partick Thistle F.C. but was never capped for Scotland. That same year Tommy Elliott was transferred from Baillieston Juniors to Partick Thistle.

A Baillieston Thistle team preceded the Juniors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and won the Scottish Junior Football League twice: in 1893 and 1894. This side also featured a future Rangers and Scotland player, in the form of Willie Reid. Its name is kept alive by the Scottish Amateur Football Association team Baillieston Thistle AFC. The recently formed Baillieston United have just joined the central Scottish welfare fa as of July 2008. Another amateur team, Red Star Baillieston AFC plays at Stepford Edinburgh Road. Glasgow East AFC are another amateur side based in Baillieston who play in the Glasgow Sunday AFL (Amateur Football League). FC Baillieston were formed in 2010 and play in the Sunday Central AFL league. There is a Baillieston Girls Football Club and Baillieston Ladies Football Club, both of whom have supplied players to the national teams.

Famous People

Michelle McManus (Pop Idol winner)^[3] and Jamie Dalgliesh (Scottish Comedian of the Year 2011)^[4] and are from Baillieston.

References

1. ^ List of railway station names in English, Scots and Gaelic - NewsNetScotland
2. ^ BBC News
3. ^ http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Michelle-McManus-Biography/472A979743FA4F4848256E1E00063F23
4. ^ http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/arts/comedy_review_scottish_comedian_of_the_year_2011_1_1877513

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