65 Kelvinside Gardens.....

[wini]

I have a Mary Robertson Munro who died at the above address in1940, she was 74 and her usual address was 543 Maryhill Road.
Does anyone know if there was a hospital,Poorhouse or anything else at Kelvinside.
It seems rather a posh address for a Poorhouse

wini

[LesleyB]

hi Wini
Does the death informant give any clues? Could she have been staying with a relative?

best wishes
Lesley

[WilmaM]

I had a look at an old map for the area [1909] at there is a Church & School at numbers 1 & 13. a big gap then a few houses at the very end of the street [ corners of Kelvinside Terrace West, Kelvinside Gardens & Wilton Streets] there is a very large house , but I can't find out what it's name was.

None of the hospitals on the Health Board archives appear to match the address either.

There was at one time a Redland's House in the area that was turned into a Womans hospital. But I don't think it was there.

One point to bear in mind - your lady died in 1940, during the war that would have changed the uses of many places.

[Jack]

Hi Wini,
Like the 1927 Glasgow P.O. Directory (below), no name against 65 in them for around the 1940s either.
(was it definitely 65?)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com ... x-glas.htm

Maybe you could contact The Mitchell Library?
To see if they have the house owner on the valuation rolls at that address in 1940?
http://tinyurl.com/ct37k
--
Jack


TD

[wini]

Yes it is definitely number 65. It is one of those very clear DC's where you can read every word.

Thanks to both of you for looking.

Her husband William died at 63 Possil Road in 1938, this must be a hospital as the entry under his has the same place of death.
The third entry on the DC has The Royal Cancer Hospital as place of death.

Coincidentally I had an email from a cousin in Nova Scotia today saying he is taking his Grand children to Glasgow next month and will look up anything I want at the Mitchell.
Can't get a better offer than that, can you

Wini

[Merlot]

Had a look at the 1913 valuation rolls - nothing for no. 65

Merlot

[wini]

One mystery after another.

It's what keeps us all going isn't it.

wini

[Jim boyle65]

Hi I lived in 65 Kelvinside Gardens from 1945 to 1954 It was a lovely old house and we lived their with another five families. It was rented from Glasgow Corporation. It was a Big house divided into apartments,each family had their own section of the house.
I was always told it was formally a nursing home, but at that young age I did not know what a nursing home was, I was told Elderly people lived in it and and babies where born their.
It was a lovely big house and did not in any way look like a Hospital, It looked more like a big mansion house, When we moved to Drumchapel in 1954 three of the other families moved their about the same time.
Later some of my family tried to find out the History of this house at 65 Kelvinside Garden but it remains a mystery, as to who or what it was built for origionally

[Currie]

Hello Jim, and welcome to TalkingScot,

Google landed me at this end of Kelvinside Gardens but I’m not sure about number 65. If you can still recognise the territory perhaps you could give some directions as to its location. http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&i ... .98,,0,5.8

Here’s an interesting thread on GlasgowGuide. The poster thinks it may have been called Northbank and was on the corner of KG and Wilton street and was demolished in the 70’s. http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/index ... opic=18926

And that would mean the other end of KG, around here. http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&i ... 46,,0,7.01

All the best,
Alan

[Jim boyle65]

Hi Alan
Thanks for you response 65 Kelvinside Gardens was demolished and flats built on the site,if you look on the map on your third link rotate it clockwise 65 sat between Kelvinside Gdns Lane and Kelvinside Gardens If you look on the map you can still see the old boundary wall just at the end of the flats. The house sat at the Junction of Kelvinside Gardens and Wilton Street the Main gate and driveway up to the house was right on the junction, it also had another gate on the junction of Wilton street and Kelvinside Gardens Lane.
Jim