108 Slides of the Pollokshaws Area (2 of 108)

	WELLGREEN In the background the bank building still stands in Greenview Street today. Wellgreen on the right, into which the Morris Minor is heading (there is a similar model disappearing off-screen left), shared the junction at Pollokshaws Road with Ashtree Road. On the facade of the bank building one of the fixtures used by the tramways overhead cable department to support the power wires to save installing a pole, can be seen. It is just discernible at the one storey up level between the double and single windows on the right. These fixtures are fairly common in areas around the city where trams used to run and where old buildings remain. In Kilmarnock Road for example, between Shawlands Cross and Newlands there are over a dozen. The triangle of lime trees of the Wellgreen, too, is still there but it stands in a much-altered environment with the building of the first then the second medical centres. The bus stop visible in Wellgreen was for a special late afternoon peak hour service for the large number of workers from the many manufacturing companies in east Pollokshaws. The writer, a bus driver at this time, worked briefly on this service in the early 1960s.