This week’s post is a short photographic essay about the street where I live to give some context for the history that I shall unfold in future months.
Earlspark Avenue is on the south side of Glasgow close to a well heeled area known as Newlands. Recent electoral boundary changes means that we are now officially inthe area known as Langside.
This is a typical red sand stone semi detached house built before the First World War at the start of the 20th Century. A three bedroom house with a lounge, dining room and kitchen. There is a half landing where the bathroom is. It was a conventional Glasgow house that has been changed to meet demands of modernisation over the decades.
A short way down Earlspark is a group of modern houses that were built on the site of an old farm, Paper Mill Farm.
At the rear of the new housing were cattle fields that was purchased by a local factory to create a recreational Park for their employees in 1917.
I shall conclude this post next week.