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Baillieston
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 Buchanan Street, Baillieston | |
| Population | 21,663 (Inc. Garrowhill) |
| Demonym | Bailliestonians |
| OS grid reference | NS677636 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GLASGOW |
| Postcode district | G69 |
| Dialling code | 0141 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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| 55°50′51″N4°06′53″W / 55.847404°N 4.114655°W /55.847404; -4.114655 | |
Baillieston (Scots:Bailiestoun)[1][2] is a working class suburb ofGlasgow, Scotland. It is about 7 miles (11 km) east of the city centre.
It also gives its name toWard 20 ofGlasgow City Council and forms part of theGlasgow East constituency of theUK Parliament.
Once a separate village, Baillieston is now on the periphery of the Glasgow urban area, situated west of a major interchange between theM8,M74 andM73motorways and theA8trunk road, between the town ofCoatbridge inNorth Lanarkshire, and the neighbouring Glasgow neighbourhoods ofSandyhills,Barlanark andMount Vernon. Suburban developments in the vicinity such asBarrachnie,Garrowhill,Springhill andSwinton are generally considered to fall within the larger modern Baillieston district. The area is served byBaillieston railway station, with theBroomhouse neighbourhood on the opposite side of the tracks accessed via a rebuilt road bridge[3][4][5][6] and a pedestrian underpass. The remnants of theMonkland Canal lie to north of the district underneath the M8 motorway, atEasterhouse.[7]
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Local schools include the following:
There are a number of churches in Baillieston, including the original (1833) but disusedBaillieston Old Parish Church in Church Street and the new (1974)Baillieston St Andrew's Church, Bredisholm Road. There are two Roman Catholic churches, St Francis of Assisi Church in Crown Street and St Bridget's Church in Swinton Road, the latter built by thePugin company from 1891–93.
There is a smallEpiscopal Church ofSt John also in Swinton Road, built in 1850. The Mure Memorial Parish Church inGarrowhill was built as part of thegarden suburb opened in 1940. There are also twoPlymouth Brethren churches. Hope Hall (aka Baillieston Evangelical Church) on Church Street and Gospel Church on Glasgow Road. These two churches merged and now meet in Gospel Church while Hope Hall is used bya 20 Schemes church plant.
Baillieston Football Club (Baillieston Juniors) was founded in 1919[10] and played in their early years at a ground presently occupied by Martin Crescent but when Lanarkshire county council decided to build housing there in 1932 they had to move to a field nearby at Camp Road. This ground was named Springhill Park after the name of the farm owned by John Findlay of Springhill to whom it was rented from. The team played there until 1953 when they opened a new stadium at Station Road which they called Station Park (due to its proximity toBaillieston railway station)[7] until the 1990s when the ground was sold off to a private housing developer due to a liquidity crisis.
The team carried on, and, though they are not currently in business,[11][12] they may still return toJunior football. Their greatest season was 1979–80, when they won theScottish Junior Cup, the Glasgow Dryburgh Cup and the McLeod Cup.[10]
The club's star player,Davie Wilson, moved from the Juniors toRangers F.C. in 1956 and played forScotland.[13] In 1967,Brian Heron followed in Wilson's footsteps to Rangers although he would make his mark atMotherwell F.C. In 1984,Andy Walker made the move straight to the professional divisions, also with Motherwell.[14][15] In 1987,Alan Dinnie left the Juniors to play forPartick Thistle F.C. but was never capped forScotland. That same year Tommy Elliott was also transferred from Baillieston Juniors to Partick Thistle.
A Baillieston Thistle team preceded the Juniors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and won theScottish Junior Football League twice: in 1893 and 1894. This side also featured a future Rangers and Scotland player, in the form ofWillie Reid. Its name is kept alive by theScottish Amateur Football Association team Baillieston Thistle AFC. The recently formed[when?] Baillieston United have just joined the central Scottish welfare fa as of July 2008. Another amateur team,Red Star Baillieston AFC plays atStepford Park, Edinburgh Road. Glasgow East AFC is another amateur side based in Baillieston who play in theGlasgow Sunday AFL (Amateur Football League). FC Baillieston, were formed in 2010 and play in the Sunday Central AFL league. There are also the Baillieston Girls Football Club and Baillieston Ladies Football Club, both of which have supplied players to the national teams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epab9nDjVHoYouTube link to MP4 of:Baillieston a View of the Past by pupils of Bannerman High School Baillieston 1985.
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