1931. Too bad the war memorial, which stood in front of the halls from the early 1920s, is out of frame in both of the 1931 photos.
The land here on the other side of Pollokshaws Road was cultivated as a kind of market garden by Ernest Pickwell & Son. Part of it
was laid out as an orchard, which benefited the local urchins, who raided it regularly, although they had to be wary because the
owner’s house at 2060 Pollokshaws Road (seen in 9) overlooked it. Pickwell also had lockups to let and sold petrol at the Shaw
Bridge at the far end of this plot of ground. The tenement on the far right is part of the block owned by the Co-op.