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	Pollokshaws - LoveToKnow 1911
		POLLOKSHAWS, a police burgh and burgh of barony of Renfrewshire, Scotland, on the White Cart, now virtually a suburb of Glasgow, with which it is ' connected by electric tramway and the Glasgow and South-Western and Caledonian railways.
		The staple industries are cotton-spinning and weaving, silk-weaving, dyeing, bleaching, calico-printing and the manufacture of chenille and tapestry, besides paper mills, potteries and large engineering works.
		Pollokshaws was created a burgh of barony in 1813, and is governed by a council and provost.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pollokshaws (179 words)

	Pollokshaws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pollokshaws is a suburb on the southside of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
		Pollok F.C. 's Newlandsfield Park is in the area, adjacent to Pollokshaws East railway station.
		The club celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2004, and were honoured with a civic reception in the Glasgow City Chambers.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Pollokshaws (323 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Pollokshaws
		In recent years the area has seen an influx of asylum seekers being housed in the area's high rise tower blocks and whilst they have mostly been welcomed, some local residents have resented them due to the notion that asylum seekers have "everything provided for them" by the local authority (Glasgow City Council).
		Pollokshaws was a burgh until 1912 when it was annexed to the City of Glasgow.
		Pollokshaws is also known as the birthplace of the early 20th century socialist and Scottish Nationalist John MacLean.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Pollokshaws (337 words)

	Pollokshaws Fire Brigade
		One night a building some distance from Pollokshaws went in a blaze, and a horseman was dispatched in hot haste to summon the brigade.
		The messenger was a man of more than ordinary resource, and when he reached the fire-station he decided that it would be folly to waste a valuable half-hour waiting until all the firemen were informed that their presence was urgently required.
		This became Pollokshaws Fire Station in the Glasgow Fire Service in 1948 and remained in service until the present Pollok Fire Station was opened in 1962.
	www.btinternet.com /~graeme.kirkwood/Oldfire/Pollokshaws.htm (838 words)

	John Maclean's Pollokshaws
		When Maclean was born, Pollokshaws was a village, though an expanding one, still outwith Glasgow's city boundaries; in fact it was in the Eastwood district of Renfrewshire.
		These meetings were covered in the Pollokshaws News, which reported in 1901 that Maclean had said socialism would reduced drunkeness, 'and the diminution of drunkenness would result in the diminution of crime.' A lively correspondence ensued from these coverages, to which Maclean himself contributed.
		Pollokshaws Co-op lay just south of the present Library in Shawbridge Road, and more or less over the dyke of the Sir John Maxwell school-again emphasising the "village" character of the Shaws at this time.
	www.glasgowwestend.co.uk /people/johnmaclean.php (2905 words)

	John Maclean : Radical Glasgow : Glasgow Caledonian University
		Born 26th August 1879 in the district of Pollokshaws near Glasgow.
		It was her self sacrifice that allowed John to be educated, and he vowed to use his education in the service of the working class.
		In 1900 he joined the Pollokshaws Progressive Union, this was mainly an educational and debating society but also campaigned for progressive social reforms and proved to be a useful platform for John's intellectual and political ideas.
	www.gcal.ac.uk /radicalglasgow/chapters/johnmclean.html (1892 words)

	Crossmyloof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original village of Crossmyloof was situated in the north-western corner of Cathcart parish and was formed around the junction of what are now Pollokshaws Road and Langside Avenue (the road to Cathcart).
		Pollokshaws Road and Minard Road provided the shopping area for Shawlands - mainly in small shop units until the construction of the area's first supermarket by the Co-operative during the 1960s.
		As well as the Langside Halls, the ice rink, the churches and the pubs on Pollokshaws Road, the area's main social amenity was the Waverley Cinema until the early 1970s when the decline in film-going led to its conversion into a bingo hall which has now been converted into TUSK nightclub and the Waverley Tearooms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crossmyloof (1335 words)

	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Park, or Burns, Elizabeth (1791-1873)
		Thomson took up the trade of handloom weaving, and he and his wife both remained in Pollokshaws until their deaths - Thomson's in 1869, and Betty Burns's in 1873 at Crossmyloof.
		They are both buried in the Old Burgher churchyard in Pollokshaws once called the Vennel, and which survives in the middle of one of Glasgow Corporation's Comprehensive Redevelopment Areas.
		She was buried in the family burying ground, which also was the burial place of Gilbert Burns Begg, the poet's nephew.
	robertburns.org /encyclopedia/ParkorBurnsElizabeth1791-1873.701.shtml (595 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of Gabriel Wingate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		) was born 02 Dec 1823 in Eastwood, Renfreshire, and died 05 Oct 1891 in Pollokshaws, Renfrewshire.
		In 1871 Census the family lived at 46 Pollok Street, Pollokshaws, Eastwood and Walter's occupation is recorded as Book-keeper at Lawyer's Office.
		She was born 1821 in Perthshire, and died 23 Dec 1859 in Quarter, Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
	familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/w/i/n/Guy-Wingate/GENE1-0006.html (322 words)

	Architecture in Pollokshields Pollokshaws and Langside
		The house is open to the public and has a postal address of 2060 Pollokshaws Road, even though it is nearly a mile away from the main road.
		Sir John Maxwell School was erected in 1907, shortly before Pollokshaws became part of the city of Glasgow in 1912.
		Pollokshaws East is the nearest station on the Cathcart Circle to the school.
	www.scotcities.com /cathcart/inner.htm (1165 words)

	Glasgow : Walking Tours : Walking Tour 4 \| Frommers.com
		By walking parallel to Pollokshaws Road, past the upper pond with resident swans on its island, and up a slight rise, you will come to Camphill House.
		Built towards the beginning of the 19th century with fluted Ionic columns at the front portico, it was once a Museum of Costume.
		One of the main thoroughfares leading to and from the city, Pollokshaws Road points directly at Glasgow Cathedral as it nears the city center.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/glasgow/0155020036.html (904 words)

	Lodge Thorntree No:512 :: Main Street, Thornliebank
		Alongside the Pollokshaws to Stewarton Road and the Auldhouse Burn, just to the north of Spiers Bridge there was a tract of steeply sloping ground locally known as the 'Thorneybank' - from the abundance of thorn trees which grew in the area - this later became known as Thornliebank.
		The village grew with the works and hardly a household was not dependent on them for its existence.
		During the 1970's Lodges Thorntree, Pollokshaws Royal Arch, Union and Crown, Thistle and Crown, St. Christopher and Nitshill joined together to form a charity committee, known as the North East Corner.
	www.freewebs.com /lodgethorntree512/history.htm (2138 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of Gabriel Wingate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		She was born 30 Sep 1789 in Camlachie, Glasgow, and died 22 Oct 1859 in Pollokshaws, Glasgow.
		1790 in Pollokshaws, near Glasgow, and died 1832 in Cowglen, near Glasgow.
		After her husband Walter's death, Agnes lived with her daughters in Pollokshaws and then with her son David in Dalziel before returning to Pollokshaws.
	familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/w/i/n/Guy-Wingate/GENE1-0003.html (629 words)

	» Pollokshaws
		In only its second year, Pollokshaws Carnival is becoming a key feature of Refugee Week in Glasgow.
		Organised by Pollokshaws Settlement and Integration Network, it was held earlier this summer at the Bengal Street pitch.
		Directors of Pollokshaws Burgh Hall Trust have honoured John Maclean – a founding father of the Scottish Labour Party who lived in Pollokshaws – by naming a refurbished room in the building after him.
	glasgow-southsiders.co.uk /category/pollokshaws (376 words)

	Hendry Family Ancestry - pafg40 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Margaret Beith was born in 1880 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire.
		John Beith was born about 1883 in Pollokshaws, Renfrewshire.
		Robert Beith was born about 1886 in Pollokshaws, Renfrewshire.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /hendry-genealogy/hendry/pafg40.htm (509 words)

	Aspect 2003: Gordon Jackson, Scottish Labour Party candidate, Glasgow Govan, 2003
		Pollokshaws and Shawlands senior citizens deserve a fair deal.
		Working with police and local residents, we have targeted drug dealers in Pollokshaws and Shawlands and seized their profits.
		Better schools for Pollokshaws and Shawlands children Having delivered smaller classes for the first three primary years, we will cut class sizes for Maths and English in the early years at secondary.
	gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /aspect/aspect2003/lab/a03labggo.htm (1315 words)

	GENUKI: Pollokshaws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For an excellent history of the town of Pollokshaws, I can highly recommend "Villages of Glasgow", Volume 2 by Aileen Smart, pp.
		The book was published in 1996 by John Donald Publishers Ltd., 138 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh EH3 5AA (ISBN 0 85976 391 9).
		Included with the history is a map of Pollokshaws.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/sct/RFW/Eastwood/pollokshaws.html (84 words)

	Strathclyde Police - Attempted Murder — Pollokshaws, Glasgow
		Police are appealing for witnesses after a 45 year-old man was seriously assaulted in Pollokshaws, Glasgow on Wednesday 16 August 2006.
		The 45-year-old man sustained a stab wound during an altercation in Shawbridge Street in Pollokshaws around 8.30pm.
		He was taken by ambulance to the Glasgow Victoria Infirmary, where his condition is described as serious, but stable.
	www.strathclyde.police.uk /index.asp?locID=968&docID=3297 (190 words)

	Photograph of John Maclean's casket being removed from his Pollokshaws home, Nov 1923 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Photograph of John Maclean's casket being removed from his home in Pollokshaws on the day of his funeral.
		John Maclean died on 30 November 1923 at his home in Pollokshaws aged 44, his health ruined by a mixture of his constant political activity, five terms of imprisonment and his period on hunger strike.
		John Maclean's funeral march, led by the Clyde Workers' Band, was followed by 10,000 people on its way through the south side of the city to Maclean's burial in Eastwood cemetery.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /redclyde/redclyde/rc030.htm (162 words)

	Shawlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Like many similar areas in the city, it grew up as a direct response to improved tram links to the city centre, and the need for working/middle class housing prompted by Glasgow's growth in population and economy.
		An 18th Century painting shows Shawlands as completely undeveloped, save for a solitary cottage at the Cross (the meeting place of Pollokshaws Road and Kilmarnock Road, and not as is sometimes assumed, the junction of Langside Avenue/Minard Road and Pollokshaws Road).
		Battlefield, Glasgow, Crossmyloof, Govanhill, Hillpark, Langside, Mansewood, Merrylee, Mount Florida, Newlands, Pollokshaws, Pollokshields, Queens Park, Glasgow, Strathbungo, and Thornliebank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shawlands (414 words)

	Meetic > Dating in Pollokshaws, UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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		Meetic is an easy to use online dating service where you’ll be able to get online in minutes, and start searching for the perfect UK or Pollokshaws date.
	singles.meetic.com /glasgow/pollokshaws-dating.htm (187 words)

	: Please support this asylum seeker family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The family are just one of many families from the Congo who seem to have been targetted to be moved to the YMCA.
		There are several other families who've asked for us to come along to support them over the next week or so with two more expected on the 6th next week.
		Please pass this message on and come along to support the family in Pollokshaws.
	scotland.indymedia.org /newswire/display/2905/index.php (583 words)

	Pollok Country Park
		The park is located in the South west of the city just 3 miles from the city centre.
		The main access to the park is via the Pollokshaws Road entrance.
		It is believed that this fine example of a country house is the fourth residence of the Maxwell family to be built here since its establishment in the 13th century
	www.glasgow.gov.uk /en/Residents/Parks_Outdoors/Parks_gardens/pollokcountrypark.htm (728 words)

	Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees : digests of relevant publications : experience of integration: a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The team therefore selected field sites with different characteristics of refugee settlement and ethnic diversity, and interviewed a range of refugees and more established residents in the local area.
		Islington in London, a location with a large pre-existing ethnic minority population and a significant history of refugee self-settlement, and Pollokshaws in Glasgow, an area without a history of refugee settlement prior to dispersal and a low level of settlement by ethnic minorities, were chosen.
		More information about the evaluation of integration projects funded by the Challenge Fund and the European Refugee Fund can be found at http://www.mba4consultancy.co.uk/mba_refugeeI.asp.
	www.icar.org.uk /?lid=4262 (1698 words)

	Run Glasgow : Annual Running Events In Glasgow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		During this time there will be some amount of traffic disruption locally, particularly for residents who reside in the area affected by the Traffic Gates listed below.
		Everything possible is being done by the race organisers to minimise the race’s impact on local residents.
		Pollokshaws Road – between Kingarth Street and Coplaw Street
	www.runglasgow.org /senior/closures.html (269 words)

	Overview of Pollokshaws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Situated on the White Cart Water to the south of the River Clyde and within the boundary of the City of Glasgow, Pollokshaws was originally a textile village which became a burgh of barony in 1813.
		It became noted for its working class militancy and was the birthplace of the socialist MP James Maxton (1885-1946).
		Redeveloped in the 1960's, Pollokshaws is a mixture of old tenement flats with new low and high rise flats.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/towns/townfirst495.html (137 words)

	John Maclean - agitator, organiser, educator
		John MacLean was born in Pollokshaws near Glasgow on 24 August 1879.
		He organised demonstrations of the unemployed, so that by 1908 the town council in Pollokshaws were forced to give work to over a quarter of the town's unemployed.
		As provided by the Bill, he got twenty of the young members of Pollokshaws SDF to request the local school board for a continuation class in economics.
	www.marxist.com /History/jmaclean.html (2527 words)

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