Take a Walk on the Southside

Pollokshields Heritage has just announced the launch of its new Heritage Trails around this unique garden suburb. Trail One looks at ‘The Villas of Pollokshields’ which lie to the West of the suburb and Trail Two looks at ‘The Tenements of Pollokshields which lie to the East. The walks highlight key buildings, features,

details and notable former residents. The Trail leaflets give a good guide to people wandering through the leafy avenues and handsome tenement lined streets of Pollokshields which is always a great place for a nosy round.

The third leaflet is a guide to the story of the area dubbed Glasgow’s Garden Suburb. It celebrates the Maxwell family - the landowners who had the vision for a grand garden suburb to the south of the city centre and then saw it through three generations of the family, the master planners the family employed to draw up their vision, the developers who invested in the suburb and the architects whose designs they commissioned. It also celebrates those who then built the buildings and the craftsmen and artisans who forged the details that still delight us today.

Pollokshields Heritage will host the official launch of the leaflets on Sunday 3rd March 2013 at Pollokshields Burgh Hall with a guided walk through the Avenues leaving from the Burgh Halls at 2.00pm (weather permitting) and followed by afternoon tea from 3 to 4.30pm at the Burgh Hall. As places are limited anyone

wishing to participate should contact secretary@pollokshieldsheritage.org.

More information about Pollokshields Heritage here.

(All photographs ©Roger Millar)