19th CENTURY ANDERSTON

This is a sketch of old Bishop street, where several of my ancestors lived between 1866 and 1884. As you can see it was quite a run down area and many families had to live out of one room.

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(Taken from the book Glasgows Gain, the Anderston story, by Derek Dow and Micheal Moss published 1986)

One of the oldest tenements in Anderston sketched just before its removal in the late 1940s.

(Taken from the book Glasgows Gain, the Anderston story, by Derek Dow and Micheal Moss published 1986)

Map of lancefield district 1840.

Notice at the bottom section of the map has an area of land recorded as, Lands of LANCEFIELD the property of the Heirs of the late James Hardie, Esquire. So there has been Hardies in the Anderston area wealthy as well as poor.

(Taken from the book Glasgows Gain, the Anderston story, by Derek Dow and Micheal Moss published 1986)

Note The above info was taken from the book Glasgows Gain, the Anderston story, by Derek Dow and Micheal Moss published 1986.

My cousin John came across this book in his local library and is a must for anyone who had ancestors living in the Anderston area of Glasgow in the 19^th early 20th century.

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