Views Read Edit View history. Main page Travel destinations Star articles What's Nearby? Tourist office Random page. Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia. Add links. It is said that the new station constructed to serve the village needed a name and after much consideration it was named after a nearby cottage, which was home to the local gamekeeper of the Garscadden Estate.
The cottage used to be situated at the corner of Drymen and Ledcameroch Road. The cottage had been named Bearsden. According to local legend in years gone by, two bears had been kept in the grounds of the cottage by the local Laird and this is where the name derived from. Bearsden Cross. Bearsden Railway Station. Visitor Information View Location on Map. Leafy Suburban Streets War Memorial.
All Saints Episcopal Church. New Kilpatrick Parish Church. One part was called West, or Old Kilpatrick, and covered Dumbarton and areas of west Dunbartonshire, such as Clydebank.
Modern Bearsden began in an agricultural area as a small hamlet called New Kirk or perhaps Chapelton close to New Kilpatrick Parish Church, which was first built in Close landmarks included Canniesburn Toll, and a water mill at Garscube.
The present-day church was built in The size and style of the community prior to urbanisation is recorded in Rambles Round Glasgow , first published in At that point, the route takes the road to Drymen, rather than the alternative to Milngavie.
Of particular note are the woods and gardens surrounding the fine houses of Killermont and Garscube, which are contrasted with a small shop at Canniesburn with apparently nothing left for sale. The kirk-toun modern Bearsden Cross is described as consisting of about a dozen cottages of idyllic rural beauty, isolated from the noise and dirt of Glasgow. The account also includes one of the earliest references to "Bear's Den", and although the location is not clear, a traditional belief is recorded that it was a Roman burial site.
The New Kirk settlement grew from the middle of the nineteenth century when Glaswegian businessmen built houses at a commutable distance from the city. This was soon adopted as the name of the community. The opening of the railway led to considerable development of Bearsden, with many large Victorian houses built in what is now known as Old Bearsden Conservation Area.
Managed by Glasgow Corporation , the countryside location moved the girls away from any malign influences to be found in the city and allowed the institution to be self-supporting with livestock and a vegetable garden.
The girls washed their own clothes and those of local residents in the Reformatory's large laundry. In addition to girls who had fallen foul of the courts, others with problems such as malnourishment and learning difficulties were also housed at Chapelton.
In , around girls passed through the school annually and were taken to New Kilpatrick Parish church on Sundays. The school closed in the early s and after a brief period as a hall of residence for the Nautical College, the building was demolished to make way for a shopping centre with an Asda supermarket. Buchanan Retreat was built in by the Buchanan sisters of Bellfield, near Kilmarnock , in Ayrshire.
It was taken over by Bearsden Burgh in and used as council offices pictured below under Administration. Latterly used by East Dunbartonshire council, and now known as Boclair House, it was placed on the market in following council cost-cutting measures and staff redistribution.
The council is currently considering an offer April to convert the building into a hotel and wedding venue. The building has now been split into private residential apartments. In , many buildings were built at Bearsden Cross by Mathew Henderson he also tried, unsuccessfully, to develop another commuter suburb at Drumchapel. Westerton Garden suburb was built around and is also now a conservation area near Westerton station.
Near this is the site of the former Canniesburn Hospital, which has many Art Deco buildings and where pioneering plastic surgery was performed, notably on the Boy David who was featured on many television programmes and was adopted by one of the doctors there.
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