Anyone know anything about Eaglesham?

[sheilajim]

Hi Alan,

I know that there is a lot of info on YouTube. I usually go there at least once a day to listen and watch music. Even so I am still amazed about all the things that are posted on that site.

As for Eaglesham, a lady from the Giffnock Heritage Center sent me an old map overlaid by a new one of the area around Montgomery Square. I also got two pictures of the square from her site. A picture of the house and its plan itself is available from RCAHMS for 20 lb for the picture 15 lb for the plans. ouch. I think that is a little steep. I downloaded a picture of the house for free from Google Maps streetview. Probably not as good as the official picture, but I couldn't beat that price.

[kennethm]

Hi Carol,

I can help you with information about Eaglesham.

Garden Cottage is actually a single storey cottage which is situated behind a house at no. 7 Montgomery Square. Just behind the house next door to Sheila's relatives at no. 8.

You can see a window at one end of the cottage at no. 8 in the foreground of the photograph at:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1477564

and the window at the other end of the cottage at:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1450602

There's a tiny lane between the house next door (no. 7) and no. 6 which gives access to Garden Cottage.

Hopefully you'll find my Geograph article 'Eaglesham - the story of an 18th century planned village' at:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Eagl ... ed-Village

interesting. I've also written a couple of other articles about Eaglesham.

The 'Vernacular Building in Eaglesham' article at:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Vern ... -Eaglesham

shows lots of buildings in the village including a description of the cottage at no. 8 Montgomery Square.

'The Darvel to Eaglesham weavers trail' article describes the trail that the weavers took to bring and collect material from the carriers for the Glasgow and Paisley markets.

Good luck in your research.

Kenneth

Hi Sheila,

Since I live in Alabama and have never been to Eaglesham, I can't answer your question, but I had relatives living at Garden Cottage, #3 Montgomery Square around 1925! When I found this out I did some googling and found an article about the historical commission trying to save some of the houses in Eaglesham. I don't have the article, but I think I was just doing a general search for Eaglesham.

Do you know if later generations of your relatives stayed there after 1861? Would be fun if your relatives and mine were saying "Hello" to each other when they were out walking later on!

Carol

[speleobat2]

Kenneth,

Welcome to TalkingScot and thanks for the links! I had found the articles earlier on when I was Googling for Eaglesham, but I didn't read them through then, but will now. They both do look interesting and the pictures are a great bonus for those of us who can't get to Eaglesham!

Carol

[kennethm]

Hi Carol,

Thanks for the welcome. I only discovered TalkingScot at couple of days ago and was interested in the Eaglesham discussions. I've been doing a bit of research about the history of Eaglesham and thought I'd write about what I'd discovered but didn't realise there was so quite much interest about the village.

I came across some trade directories from the 19th century that were interesting as they listed the names and occupations of people in the village at the time.

Pigot and Co.'s 'National Commercial Directory of the whole of Scotland and of The Isle of Man' from 1837 which can be downloaded from Google at:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0ecN ... am&f=false

is worth a look.

Also the 'Post Office Glasgow Directory for 1866, 1867' which can also be downloaded at:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NO8N ... 67&f=false

It might be interesting to include something on the Geograph article about who lived where and what they did if anyone has any information.

Kenneth

[kennethm]

Thought I'd let you all know that The Scots Magazine is running a feature on Eaglesham in the June edition - should be interesting.

http://www.scotsmagazine.com/

Very good photos accompanying the article!

Kenneth

[johnniegarve]

Folks, Polnoon Mews, Eaglesham, is on the market to anybody with half a million to spare!
johnniegarve.

[kennethm]

I'm just rushing down now with my offer. Hope you haven't beaten me to it Johnnie!

[Hibee]

I lived there from 1982 to 1996, and can confirm that the locals referred to it as Eagle-sum, but you only had to venture a mile or two out of the village for the pronunciation to change to Eagle-sham.

Hibee

[kennethm]

Hi Sheila,

I came across a copy of an old engraving of Eaglesham which shows your GGGGrandfather's cottage in Mongomery Square.



Looks like the enraving was made after 1790 when the present parish church was built. You can see the gable end of your GGGGrandfather's cottage in Montgomery Square directly below the church in the picture. Incidentally the wee cottage just to the left of the tree in the chuchyard is the Cross Keys cottage with the Cross Keys Inn just behind in Montgomery Street. You can also see Polnoon Street across the Orry with Polnoon Lodge set in the trees to the right. There's a bit of artistic licence with the hills in the distance though!

Ken

Hi All,

My GGGGrandfather, a shoemaker, is listed on the 1861 census as living at 8 Mongomery Square in Eaglesham. I used Google maps, street view ,and found what looks like a very old small house at that address...

Regards

[sheilajim]

Hi Ken,

What a find! This engraving is fantastic! Aside from the artistic license that they took with the hills, the area is probably very like it was when those cottages were first built. I am printing a copy of this to keep with all of the other things that I have of Eaglesham.

Thank you so much for posting this engraving.