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Springburn Quiz
I asked Springburnian Billy Gilmartin to set this series of questions on Springburn.
Have a go at them and I will post the answers in a week or so.
They are not easy and are probably impossible for anyone of my generation, but well worth attempting. Meantime if anyone can answer them all, email me.
Best of luck everybody
Steve
1 Where is the Jubilee building and why is it so called?
2. How did Kay St get it's name?
3. Name the 4 railway stations in Springburn.
4. Where was the Registry Office?
5. Above the front door of the public hall are statues.
The one on the left carries an unusual ornament.
What is it?
6. Name Springburns 5 picture halls.
7. What was the official name of the swings at Elmvale St?
8. Where was Springburns first museum?
9. Where are the Rechabite buildings?
10. Who was John Carrick?
and why was a street named after him?
11. In he swings there was a fountain with four portraits.
who were they?
12. Beneath the portraits were four panels.
what were they?
13. Charles Rennie McKintosh built 2 houses in Springburn.
Where are they?
14. Where was Inchbelly Crossing?
15. Name any streets conected with water.
16.Where was the Oddfellows Hall and who where they?
17. How many streets had flowers in their name?
18. Sighthill Cemetery has a monument to John Baird and
Andrew Harvie. Who where they?
19. How many pawn shops where there and where were they?
20. Mr Hoey of Springburn built a foot path for the people of Springburn.
Where and why?
Answers to Springburn Quiz.
1. It’s the tenement between Horn Street and Fernbank Street.It was built at the same time as Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1897.
2. A family called Kay donated the ground to the Corporation to build the baths.To honour the gift they named the street after them.
3. Springburn,Barnhill,Cowlairs and St Rollox.
4. To register Births Deaths and Marriages we went to Elmvale Street.
5. To commemorate Springburns association with the railways the statue carries a steam locomotive.
6. Kinema,Princes,Oxford ,Wellfield and The Wee Electric which was situated between Gourlay Street and Keppochill Road,in later years it was a billiard hall then Andy Roberts bookmaker and ended as a prize bingo hall.
7. The Balgray Pleasure Grounds,gifted by the Reid family for the children of Springburn in 1912.All the local schools were invited in turn to have a morning or afternoon to test out the swings.
8. Mosesfield House was the first museum.The original house was built by James Moses in 1787.When the house became vacant the Reid’s bought it,then donated it to the city.It opened in 1905 and closed in 1952.In 1931it had 61,833 visitors ,all its artefacts went to the museum.
9. Its in Valleyfield Street.The rechabites were against alcohol with a very strong following in Scotland.
10. John Carrick was for many years the City Treasurer.He must have been honest to have a street named after him.
11. William Wallace,Robert The Bruce, Robert Burns and Walter Scott.
12. One was Comet 1812,then Liner 1912 depicting the Clyde,then two locomotives rocket style 1834 and a modern locomotive dated 1912 depicting Springburn.
13. Balgrayhill Road opposite Balgrayhill Community Centre.
14. Inchbelly Crossing was the official name for the bridge at the Caley.It was on the site of the Glasgow Garnkirk Railway,Scotlands first passeneger railway.
15. There are a few,Springvale,Wellfield,Adamswell,Mollinsburn,Fountainwell,Southloch—any more?
16. It was at Springburn Road just where the Shell Garage is.In later years it was the Perthshire Football Society Club,it was a friendly society similar to the Masons.
17. Hawthorn,Fernbank,Elmvale,Hickory,Blackthorn,Ashvale Row.Any more?
18. They were Martyrs who were weavers by trade,and were put to death during the radical uprising in 1820.They were hanged in Stirling.
19. 4 pawns, Turnbulls owned three.Springburn Road,Wellfield Street,Cowlairs Road.The other one was owned by Livingstones and was situated where Sellyn’s was,entry by Hilkirk Street Lane.
20. It was built at the Daisy Park on the road out to Huntershill Street.The idea was to save the long walk up to the park,it joined Springburn Road to the park gates at Balgrayhill Road.
21/02/2008
When I was asked to write a few questions about Springburn it set me thinking about all the landmarks that have disappeared during my lifetime.Alot of people might not know some of the places,but maybe the older ones will and I hope it might bring back some good memories and maybe encourage someone else to write a quiz on Springburn.
ENJOY!!! WILLIAM GILMARTIN ex Elmvale Street.
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