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| Springboig | |
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 Springboig Road | |
  Springboig Location withinGlasgow | |
| OS grid reference | NS651649 |
| Council area | |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GLASGOW |
| Postcode district | G32 0 |
| Dialling code | 0141 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
| 55°51′30″N4°09′24″W / 55.8584°N 4.1568°W /55.8584; -4.1568 | |
Springboig is a neighbourhood in the east end of the Scottish city ofGlasgow, situated north of theRiver Clyde. Administratively, it has been within the city'sEast Centre ward since 2017, having previously been in theBaillieston ward.
Springboig is bordered to the south byShettleston andBudhill, to the east byBarlanark and Sandymount Cemetery, directly to the west byGreenfield withCarntyne,St Andrews Secondary School,Lightburn Hospital and Greenfield Park beyond, and to the north by theEdinburgh Road (A8), withCranhill andQueenslie on the opposite side of the carriageways.
Named after a farm which previously occupied the land, the Springboig area stayed inLanarkshire when most of the surrounding territory at Shettleston was transferred into Glasgow in 1912 – it remained in theBothwell constituency along withMount Vernon andBaillieston, and did not formally join the city until a reorganisation under theLocal Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
The first housing in the area was a few streets of sandstone semi-detached villas and terraces,[1] constructed around the turn of the 20th century and are still present today. This was followed in the 1930s by a larger development consisting mostly ofcottage flats,[2] then by another expansion to the north in the late 1940s involving steel-framed houses[3] and a "quadrangle" of distinctive tenements with rounded bay windows.[4] This was prior to the construction of the much larger neighbouring schemes at Cranhill, Barlanark,Craigend,Garthamlock,Ruchazie,Easterhouse,Easthall andWellhouse, which lie to the north and east of Springboig, as well as Greenfield to its immediate west, all of which were built between the 1950s and 1960s to alleviate the post-war housing shortage in the city.[5][6]
There were two facilities for juvenile offenders and others requiring specialist care in the area:Larchgrove Remand Home/Assessment Centre andGlasgow Truant Industrial School/St John's School Springboig,[7][8] both of which have closed and have been subject to investigations of abuse by staff of the young people in their care (particularly at Larchgrove in the 1970s).[9][10]