A Walk In "The Shaws" (57 of 57)

This is another 1932 view that needed a little detective work to identify the location. It was features on the three-storey tenement
behind, mainly the pediment at roof level above the oriel windows on the other side of Pollokshaws Road that helped place it..
The buildings in the foreground are on the site of where the Corporation tenement was built in Pollokshaws Road in the late 1930s
in what is now Rossendale Court. At this time a coloured individual called Darkie McIntyre had a blacksmith’s business here, which
may have been in one of these buildings. Note the break in the tenement behind, where there was a low building in which
Willie Cassidy had a news-agent’s shop in the space at the bus stop that is now a passage into Mannering Court. Towards Haggs
Road, electrical contractors Edgar & Mellan and Miss Miller’s dairy were in the three storey building, and the Old Swan pub was
farther along at the corner of Haggs Road. It is recorded that during the second half of the 19th century a Peter Swan, a miner at
Cowglen colliery, moved to Pollokshaws and became a spirit merchant. Perhaps this is where the name of the pub came from.
(Extract from BORN TO COAL, The History of the Wingate Family, part 1, Dr. Guy S. Wingate, 1992.)