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137: 24: 144: 515:, was located to the west between Lilybank and Newbank; the club went defunct in the 1960s and the football pitch is no longer present, but it has been retained as an open public park; the only buildings on the site in the 2010s are named after Helenslea: a nursery school and community centre. Parkhead Fire station was also located in Lilybank from 1952 until 2011. 483:
comprising "Rehousing" grade accommodation of low build quality (three-storey tile-roofed tenements of grey reconstituted stone, with back-courts for drying greens, normally containing six flats, all accessed from a doorless close) was opened in 1933 to accommodate tenants from the 19th-century
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The area was farmland until the 1930s, though small industries such as rope and brickworks had also been established, as well as Wilson's Boilermakers. The Lilybank housing scheme, named after the Lilybank Boiler
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SPW027255 SCOTLAND (1929). William Wilson and Co. Lilybank Boiler Works and Macfarlane, Lang and Co. Biscuit Factory, Clydeford Drive, Glasgow. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing east
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SAW051744 SCOTLAND (1953). Glasgow, general view, showing Macfarlane, Lang and Co. Victoria Biscuit Works, Clydeford Drive and Tolcross Road. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north
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SAW035573 SCOTLAND (1951). Beatson, Clarke and Co, Ltd., Braidfauld, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1951. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing North
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Most blocks were demolished in the 1990s and replaced by modern housing. At the time of the construction of the original housing, the small ground of
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spw027256 SCOTLAND (1929). William Wilson and Co. Lilybank Boiler Works, Tollcross, Glasgow. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north
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In a wider sense, many residents of Lilybank would consider themselves residents of Parkhead or
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from 1995 to 2007; since then, the neighbourhood (west of Maukinfauld Road) has been in the
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Westthorn House (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections, Dougan Collection, 1870)
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whisky bottling plant and warehouses, the latter on the former Westthorn country estate.
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Glasgow City Council area Electoral arrangements (3rd Review) Ward 45 Braidfauld
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runs to the south, with the land on the opposite side between the road and the
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Decades before The Scheme, another Scots community suffered the TV treatment
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Watching Ourselves: 60 Years of TV in Scotland: Lilybank - The Fourth World
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Dance in Helenslea Community Hall is going 'on tour' around Glasgow
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Harvey's Dyke (Burrell Collection Photo Library, 1890s)
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