Edit What do you know about Parkhead?
Its name comes from a small weaving hamlet at the meeting place of the Great Eastern Road (now the Gallowgate and Tollcross Road) and Westmuir Street. Duke Street and Springfield Road also meet there, to form a turreted Edwardian five-way junction at Parkhead Cross.
Glasgow's Eastern Necropolis was laid out in 1847 beside the Gallowgate.
The area flourished with the discovery of coal in 1837 and grew into an industrial centre.
In 1897 William Beardmore became famous with the production of high grade steel at the Parkhead Forge, founded about 1837 and extended between 1884 and 1914.
After years of decline, the massive plant was closed in 1976, and in 1986 the construction of the first phase of The Forge shopping complex began on the site.
The shopping centre opened in the autumn of 1988, and in 1994 an indoor market was added adjacent to it.
The final element, a retail park, was completed in three stages between 1996 and 2002.
Belvidere Hospital, built on the Belvidere estate which extended from London Road to the Clyde, originally consisted of wooden huts thrown up rapidly when the city's older fever hospital at Parliamentary Road was overwhelmed by a typhus epidemic in 1870.
A self-contained smallpox hospital of five brick pavilions was built from 1874. After this 19 pavilions of red and white striped brick were set up for the fever hospital. In recent times, with the general closure of infectious disease hospitals, care of elderly people became its main function.
Parkhead Hospital which opened in November 1988, was said to be the only new psychiatric hospital to be built in Scotland in the 20th century.
It was built on part of the old forge land, next to the Parkhead Health Centre, and replaced the psychiatric and psycho-geriatric admission wards of both Duke Street Hospital (formerly known as the Eastern District Hospital) and Gartloch Hospital.
Both units moved into the new hospital on the day of a Rangers-Celtic match at the nearby Celtic Park.
Parkhead also has one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by James Robert Rhind.
Parkhead is however best known as the home of Celtic Football Club.
Celtic Park, opened in 1888, is located in Kerrydale Street, just off the London Road in Parkhead.
The stadium itself is commonly referred to as Parkhead because of its location. The red brick South Stand built in 1929 had the same architect as the similar structure at the Ibrox Park of "Old Firm" rivals Rangers F.C. Parkhead F.C. before its dissolution was arguably the most successful Scottish junior side.
i was born in belvedere hosp in 1967 at the time my mum lived with my dads mum in a room in kitchen in dumbar st situ being were the forge shopping centre now stands the shops along the front lookin onto the barrs ginger works was were my doctors was for many yrs dr grant and smith the shop is still there today and the feeling the same as wen i was little passin it so feels like they have stood the test of time and remained as they were the house above being the same also
My granny lived in Dunbar St, in a room and kitchen. She had 5 of a family and they all lived in the same house, there was no electricity, a big black stove and mantlepiece, she used candles for light, cooked everything on the fire. I was born in Ewing place, a lane just off Dunbar St. Stayed with my granny a lot, we used to walk along to a wee shop at the end of Dumbar St called Bridgets and I always got a penny's worth of sherbet. She sold it in every flavour you can inagine. Then we would go up to a neighbours' house for tea. She stayed in the next close to my granny. We called her Maw Boyle, my granny's name was Sinclair, she had 3 boys, William, John, Tommy and 2 girls Isa and (Elizabeth) who was my mum. The girls both worked in Templetons carpet factory and all went to St Michaels chapel every Sunday. I also feel at home when I go to Parkhead its not changed much.
Elizabeth your posting brought back memories for me. There was 4 of us in a room and kitchen in the Calton. I slept with my brother and my Ma/Da had the recess bed in the kitchen. We lived low doon and there was bars on the windows,and the lavvy outside. We had a huge key to open the lavvy door and there was a hole in the door that we stuffed with paper so no one would see in, Oh the good old days,
My partners dad used to own the Forge pub at the old Forge foundry. I would like to find out more about this. if anyone has any info please email at cporter77@hotmail.co.uk Ta much
Like elizabeth and veronica i too lived in dunbar street I remember Bridgit Murphys wee shop also Cannon's Dairy.. wee Tommy Jennings across the road in Duke Street.. Dr S Smith and Grant were also my doctors, and as I am returning to Scotland from Australia next year, this area will be one of the first places I will visit....Can't wait.