The lands of Calderbank are first mentioned in documents from 1616 and had a succession of owners, with Calderbank House believed to have been built around 1800. The last private owner of the house was James Reid, whose trustees later sold the estate to Lanark County Council in 1921. The house later became a maternity hospital in 1931 as an annexe of Bellshill Maternity before being acquired by the Talbot Association in 1981. The property was destroyed by fire in 2002, and the site is now occupied by modern housing at Broomhouse Crescent.
Bredisholm House stood just east of the M74 motorway near Newlands Glen and was owned by the Muirhead family, who were granted the lands in 1607 by the Archbishop of Glasgow with the first known reference to Bredisholm House recorded in 1710. The Muirhead family occupied the house into the early 20th century when it was acquired by accountant James Campbell, who laid out Bredisholm Golf Club on the estate around 1909, with the mansion being used as the clubhouse before its demolition in 1930. The names Muirhead and Bredisholm survive into the modern day as street names in the area.
The lands of Easter Daldowie were purchased by the old Glasgow merchant family, the Bogles, around 1724, who later feued a parcel of the estate to sugar refiner James McNair, who built Calderpark House in 1815. There was a succession of owners until the house became unsafe due to subsidence and had to be demolished in 1934. The land was later sold to the Zoological Society of Glasgow, who laid out Calderpark Zoo in 1947, which was closed in 2003, and the land was taken over by Miller Homes.
In 1732, James Baillie acquired a plot of land at Barrachnie principally to gain the mineral rights below ground, the area becoming known as Baillieston. The land changed hands several times, with tobacco merchant James French developing the estate, and was later acquired by Major James Maxwell, who built Baillieston House in the early 1800s. His heir, John Maxwell Scott-Maxwell, altered and refurbished the house in the 1900s, and later, the trustees of the Maxwell family sold the estate to Lanark County Council in 1959. Baillieston House was burned to the ground by vandals in 1963 and later demolished. Bannerman High School and the Huntingtower housing development now occupy the site of the estate.
Garrowhill House is believed to have been built around 1805 and may have replaced an earlier dwelling. In 1899, it was inherited by John Maxwell Scott-Maxwell, who later developed plans to build a garden estate in Garrowhill, which were later taken over by Henry Boot of Sheffield, who began building the estate in 1934. Garrowhill House, located atop Garrowhill Park, later became Garrowhill Institute and was also used as a library and dining hall by the adjacent Garrowhill Primary School. It was demolished in 1962.
Pictures from ‘Old Baillieston, Garrowhill and Easterhouse’ by Stenlake Publishing, available from Hoolit Gifts here.
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