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Hyndland Architecture

By Lily (1F)

 

As part of the centenary year, the S1 pupils from Hyndland Secondary took a tour of Hyndland with Anne Laird, and discovered and researched about the history of Hyndland. The Hyndland area has been around for roughly one hundred years. It was originally built using the local, blonde sand stone- but before long it ran short, as the Hyndland community was quickly growing.

The Old Station was built and opened so that red sandstone from other areas in the country could be brought into Hyndland for building purposes. Consequently today, most of Hyndland is built of red sand stone.

Though the tenements are similar, the quality and appearance of the flats increase in grandness as you go further up the hill; the tenements at the bottom of the hill aren’t as large or fine because all the waste from the street gathers there. So not surprisingly, the tenements at the top were more sought after.

Dudley Drive, though not the grandest part of Hyndland, has some history behind it. The windows on this street are different; some have one big pane of glass, while others have six little panes of glass. This is the result of World War 2.  Parts of the street were bombed and destroyed, and when I came to refurbishing, new windows were put in.

William Leiper came up with a lot of the architecture in Hyndland. Amongst his works, he designed Hyndland Parish Church and the Cottiers Theatre. The style was French gothic.

The wealthier homes in Hyndland are decorated with edicules, framing the windows with curved, detailed stone. The large cantered bay windows allow a good view of the surrounding neighbourhood. Chinese hats and Scots baronials atop the corners of the tenements to give the illusion of towers; chimneys reach upwards as the stand, well above roof level. Rustication at the bottom of the flats makes the buildings seem as if they are coming up out of the ground.

The architect who designed the tenements made the flats look taller by keeping the ground floor, first floor and second floor the same height and designed the third floor smaller. This created the illusion of tall tenements.

A lot of the homes in Hyndland had metal fences running along a low wall, but because of the Second World War they were taken down for ammunition purposes.

Before part of Queensborough Gardens was built, the residents asked the developers if the could have a bowling green. It was confirmed and built, much to the delight of the residents as they were given the bowling green and didn’t have to pay. Today you can still see the original building.

Though we see Hyndland every day, and the architecture seems normal, the history behind it is bursting with information that so many people are unaware about.

 

 

Hyndland Architecture

By Sean (1B)

 

This essay is about the architecture of Hyndland; the historical buildings and their architects. We’ll start off our talk with a talk, from David Mullane (an expert in architecture).

On the 18th of September 2012 David Mullane came to our school to talk about the architecture of Hyndland and a lot of the information was very helpful in this essay. He talked a lot about Lauderdale Gardens and Queensborough Gardens.

The most famous architect who built Hyndland was John McKellar who was the architect for most of Hyndland. The other architects were people like A. Adam, J. Nisbet and A. Mickel who were all good architects in Hyndland as well, but were just not as famous as McKellar. Another architect who designed some buildings in Hyndland was William Leiper, who didn’t design houses in Glasgow, but more unique buildings. His preferred style was “French Gothic” and it shows on the design of Hyndland parish church and Dowanhill church (now Cottiers). The French Gothic style is all about the roof and the very important windows. The windows have to be big and fancy, just like the roof. The Architects only started on Hyndland in 1901 and finished in 1910.

A lot of the architecture looks the same, its all red sandstone tenements (except for a blonde sandstone tenement in Queensborourgh Gardens), but when you look at the buildings more closely you will notice a few differences. On McKellar’s design there are beams of decoration running down the outside of the building called string crosses. Also on his design there were ledges out of each window. J. Nisbet had columns put at the doors to make them look more important. The roofs of all the buildings are different; some have spires, some have Chinese hats and some have battle turrets. The chimneys are very strange, they are tall and some are facing north to south and the others are facing east to west.

Queensborourgh Gardens is in the heart of Hyndland and going through the middle of it are trees. A line of trees go all the way from Hyndland road to Hyndland station. In the very heart of Hyndland is Hyndland Bowling Green. The reason it is there is that the people who were going to live in Hyndland, said to the builders that rather than building more houses there, to build a bowling green because bowling was very popular. Now on to the blonde sandstone building at the top of Queensbourgh Gardens; the blonde sandstone building is the only blonde tenement in Hyndland and the reason for this is the blonde sandstone is local to Glasgow and when that ran out we imported red sandstone from Ayrshire that’s why all the buildings are red sandstone.

I got my information from a very good book by Ann Laird. Ann Laird is an expert on Hyndland’s architecture and she told us a lot about it when we went on a walk with her around Hyndland. The book that she wrote is called “Hyndland, Edwardian Glasgow Tenement Suburb”, it was very helpful.

Hyndland is a great 20th century tenement suburb, it has lots of interesting things to see and the next time you look at a building in Hyndland look closely and try and see all the different pieces of architecture and the different architects’ styles.  

 

 

 

Hyndland Architecture

By Ciara (1B)

 

David Mullane came to talk to us about the architecture around Hyndland. He has travelled a lot around the world to look at the architecture in the world. He has been to New York, Paris, Milan and many more places. David is very enthusiastic about architecture, he could talk to you all day about it.

There are many different types of architecture. The British Empire had the Edwardian style (1901-1910). There is also the French early gothic style IS 700 years old. The gothic architecture is dark and very detailed.

The Parish church got restored in 1983. Most buildings have stained glass windows, even if it is just a rose or even if it is a massive painting like they have in a church of a baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Some buildings use terrazzo on the floors to make the floors look nice. The land was very precious because of the City Centre. There was a farm land during the 19th Century.

There was an area called Hind Land on Hyndland Road. There were a lot of Blonde buildings before red sandstone buildings came into Hyndland. The red sandstone was originally from Ayr where they brought it up to use for most of the buildings now.

Downhill Parish church was the first red building ever in Hyndland. Downhill Parish Church was built in 1884. Cottiers is a theatre, restaurant and church. Cottier is named after someone called Daniel Cottier. Cottiers is on Hyndland Road.

There was another architecture called William Leiper. His architecture designs were around from 1839-1916. He designed Templeton Carpet Factory which he based on a building in Rome. The factory is based in Glasgow Green.

John Campbell McKellar has built 640 buildings around the world altogether. He built all 640 building’s from 1890-1910. The red windows came in at 1941. He also operated his own building company, John C McKellar Ltd.

Hyndland Secondary got designed in 1910 and then got built in 1912. You get 3 lists, the A, B and C. many schools have been listed, Hyndland A. In spring – autumn they have a clean up day for the whole of Hyndland to join in. They do this twice a year to keep Hyndland a clean environment.

The architectures need to do a lot for designing the school, building or whatever they are doing. They need to think of the size and shape and also the roof, materials – bricks, tiles etc… They also need to get the wood and wallpaper to put around the building once it is finished.

There are a lot of people to help out to build a building. You need to architects to design the building, choose where they want it to be based and they need to choose if it is going to be red sandstone or blonde sandstone. You would need to quantity surveyor to estimate how many bricks and different materials will be needed. Stone masons who make decorative finishing’s to the brick work.

On the building roofs they had loads of different designs and decorations. Some have what you call Chinese hats, and some have spirals. There is also on some of them at the very top there was slits for people to use bows and arrows. The slits were made small so no one could see them and so the arrow can fit. Some even have the church roof design; the giant pointy corner on the roof.

The architecture of Hyndland all seems to be really nice. If you look at the side of Hyndland Secondary there it says ‘HYNDLAND PUBLIC 1910’.  In 1910 Hyndland was designed and throughout the space of 2 years they finally came to a decision to make the Airlie Building. But they never had the link corridor or the Lauderdale Building.

This year 2012 is Hyndland’s centenary year (100 years) and I hope that this information about the architecture in Hyndland was interesting.

 

 

 

 

Architecture in Hyndland

By Katie (1F)

 

Over the past couple of months we have been studying the old shops, architecture and the memories of Hyndland in honour of the school’s centenary. Today I’m going to be writing about the architecture as this subject intrigued me the most.

Let’s start at the bottom of the hill which Hyndland is situated on. Dudley Drive is right at the bottom of this hill and this is where the less grand properties sit. The tenements here are smaller – you can tell this depending on how close or far apart the doors are. This street also has an interesting history to it. During the Second World War, unfortunately some bombs landed on the tenements on the left side of the street causing them to collapse completely. If you would like to see for yourself where the bombing affected the street you can see it from the difference in windows. Instead of having the same bay windows as the original tenements, to keep the memory of this unfortunate event, they replaced the bay windows with metal rectangular ones instead.

As we progress up the hill we come to Airlie Street. This streets’ tenements are unique to all the others as they have Heraldic shields along them; these look like coats of arms. While we are here I will point out some of the traditional features of a Hyndland tenement. To start off, the windows. These are traditionally canter – bay windows which are rounded windows. A trick that most architects used was to make the first three floors’ windows the same size but to make to top floor windows slightly smaller to create an illusion of great height. Another feature of a traditional Hyndland tenement is the aedicule’s. These are designed arch decorations which the architect would use on the first floor as this is the most desired floor in which property buyers are interested. Finally, a very well known tradition is the red sandstone. The architects chose to use this although they had to import it from Ayrshire as Glasgow’s sandstone was blonde. 

Moving up the hill more we come to Queensborough gardens. In the centre of this area of Hyndland is the Hyndland Bowling Club. This has a very community orientated story about how the bowling club came about. Queensborough Gardens was not complete yet and the residents living there thought they should do something different with the land available instead of building yet more tenements. So eventually they decided to ask the architect if it was possible for him to change the plans and build a community bowling club. He happily agreed and instead of charging the area he kindly donated the bowling club to the community.

Now on to the final part of the climb, Falkland Street. This is where the grandest properties sit although with the same traditional features of a Hyndland tenement. Just up from here is a tenement that stands out from all the rest in Hyndland.  It has blonde sandstone and no canter-bay windows! This tenement breaks al the rules; but to be fair it was built before they had decided the rules.

Now for a few last Hyndland architectural features. One is the Chinese hats that sit on top of the tenements to give them a more imaginative look. Finally it is the rustication; this is rough sandstone at the bottom of the tenement to make it look as if it is in the ground.

Overall, Hyndland is a magical place full of wonderful people, fascinating history and a red sandstone jungle! I really enjoyed finding out about this topic and it has really fascinated me to find out more about a place that I have lived for so long.

 

 

Hyndland

By Torrin (1F)

 

          Hyndland is a very interesting place, if you take the time to look around it. It was built over 100 years ago, and many of the houses and tenements are still in perfect shape.

         When the houses were built, they were all built by different designers. For example, on some houses, you see small shield designs on the front.

         There are many different designs, such as the shields, Chinese hats, aedicules, string lining (I forgot if that’s what they’re called), tall chimneys, angled windows, rustication and blonde and red sandstone tenements.

         First of all, tenements are a block of flats. Hyndland is set on a hill, and the tenements at the bottom of the hill were poorer, and they got more high-quality as you go up the hill. At the bottom, most of the flats didn’t have doors, which let in cold draughts, making them cheaper. Towards the top of the hill, there are aedicules and Chinese hats, and taller chimneys.

         String lining is a thing on most tenements that run right along between each floor. It sticks out about 20cm, and it is about 20cm tall.windowsstringlining

         

Chinese hats are circular steeples that sit on the top corner of a tenement. They stick up like hats and they make the buildings look very attractive. Only the tenements on the corners of some streets have Chinese hats.

         Aedicules are fancy looking designs that go around some tenements’ windows and/or doors. They are 2 pillars holding up a sort of arc. They are only on some flats.

         Tenements are built with sandstone. There are a few different types of sandstone, blonde and red. At first, the tenements were built with blonde sandstone. But then, the builders saw how beautiful the red sandstone looked, and so they used that. These days, most of the tenements in Hyndland are red sandstone, but there are still a few groups of blonde tenements around, including a group at the top of the hill.

         At the bottom of tenements, you’ll notice how rough the bricks are, compared to the rest of the building. This is called rustication. It is there to make the tenements seem as though they’re rising out of the ground.

         The windows are sort of angled. This is to give the residents a view of up and down the street, as well as across. There are a couple of tenements with rounded windows, but most of them have angled windows.

         During World War 2, some houses at the bottom of the hill were knocked over by an explosion, because they are quite near the ship building area at the River Clyde. That proves that it is better to live at the top of the hill.

         While Hyndland was being built, the residents asked the builders if they could have something that wasn’t tenements in the middle of the community. So a bowling green was built.

         The tenements around that bowling green have patterns. If you look closely, you’ll see that on the 4 corners, there are Chinese hats. The streets running up and down have gardens in the middle of them, while at the sides there are 2 aedicules on each side. They are symmetrical.

         Hyndland is a very interesting community with a lot of history. It is worth visiting.

 

 

Hyndland Architecture

By Orla D (1B)

 

Hyndland is a busy and exciting area, and has very detailed and historic architecture. The architecture has an amazing background as it includes well known architects and it all fits in with the Arts and Crafts movement (which dates back to King Edward’s ruling), some may say the Hyndland area is equally as good as the architecture in some of the great cities around the world. Its detail and significant styles and materials make a lovely looking area. Everything down to the interior is marked in architecture’s history.

 

Dowanhill Parish Church

 

Dowanhill Parish Church is a perfect example of ‘gothic architecture’. Gothic Architecture has been around for 700 years now. Dark, detail and arches are all main features of Gothic style. You can see the exterior in this building is quite dark and arched. William Leiper (architect of Templeton Carpet Factory) was the architect of this building. The interior designer of Dowanhill Parish Church was by David Cottier (1837-1891) which is why the restaurant in Dowanhill Parish Church is now called ‘Cottiers’. It was built in 1865. The spire is Glasgow’s tallest.

 

Tenements

 

Red sand-stone is used for most buildings in Hyndland as it is gothic architecture. This creates the element of darkness and detail. But there was one blond tenement which was very unusual and significant as the gothic style was the main influence on Hyndland’s architecture. The blond tenement has a ‘Chinese hat corner roof’ as the top of the tenement looks like a Chinese hat. John Campbell McKellar (tenement architect) named this type of roof. Tenements were also purpose built flats. They were built with concept of accommodation for the larger families. A lot of tenements were farm land until the late 19th century.

 

Hyndland Parish Church

 

Hyndland Parish Church is a red sand-stone building which is also Gothic Architecture. The detail in the exterior of the building is remarkable. The wonderful thing about the interior of the building is the stain glass windows. This was a big part of the Arts and Crafts movement. Stained glass is beautiful designs and drawings that make the interior even more interesting and adds to the darkness and detail.

 

 

William Leiper

 

William Leiper (1839-1916) a well known architect for the Hyndland area built in the style of early French Gothic Architecture. The designs of his buildings were both notable inside and out. The interior was open, detailed and created a certain atmosphere. His buildings are found very impressive and the stain glass windows add to it. However there are debates over whether or not a few of his designs were completed. A lot of the interior in his buildings were hand-carved or hand-made. He was also the architect of the Templeton Carpet Factory which was based on the Dolche in Venice.

 

Hyndland Links

 

Old Station Park stands in the place of the old train station, which linked the Hyndland area to the rest of Glasgow, hence the name ‘Old Station Park’. The Ballochmyle Viaduct (highest in the UK) was where all the red stone and blond stone were shipped to.

 

John Campbell McKellar

 

John Campbell McKellar was one of the foremost architects for Hyndland. He designed 640 tenements from 1890-1910. He also operated his own building company John C McKellar Ltd. And this company was very successful. John Campbell McKellar designed about three-quarters of Hyndland (1898-1910) for three building companies: the Western Property Company, Duncanson and Henderson, and Robert McCowat.

 

Other Hyndland Architects

 

There were many other Hyndland architects aside from William Leiper and John Campbell McKellar. The other architects around from 1898-1910 are; John Short, Alex Adam and Andrew Mickel. 

 

           

 

Businesses In Hyndland

By Mirren (1B)

 

There are lots of different businesses in the Hyndland area, but what where the shops like back in the 1930s and what is now in their place after all these years? The shops of today are very different to the shops in the 1930s where a lot of people didn’t have much money. A lot of items that were sold in the 1930s were thought to be luxuries whereas they are very easy to go and buy nowadays.

 

The Tivoli

 

The Tivoli family cinema was opened in April, 1929, and families would go usually in the morning time to watch their programmes and movies because there were no televisions in the houses of people who could not afford them. The Tivoli seated 1,915 people. It was sold to the classic chain and renamed classic in 1967 it finally closed in February and became a county bingo hall. It was sadly demolished in the 1990s and is now houses. It was sadly demolished in the 1990s and is now houses. The cinema was designed by the Dumbarton-based architects Denny and Blain for the Thomas Ormiston chain. 

 

Kinnaird’s

 

Kinnaird’s was a shop to repair shoes in the 1930s and was opposite Hyndland Secondary. KInnairds advertised that they do “better shoe and boot repairs”. This could have been because in the 1930 people mended their own shoes or paid less to have shoes repaired by unskilled workers. Today there are still shops in Partick where you can have you shoes repaired but it is not as popular. This may change because lots of people do not have jobs and a lot of money at the moment.

 

D.M.HOEY

 

The picture shows the D.M HOEY tailor and outfitter shop in St. Georges Cross but there are other Hoey branches on Argyle Street, Maryhill Road, Dumbarton Road in Patrick, West Nile Street and Sutherland Avenue, Ibrox.

Being established in 1898 it still remained a shop in the 21st century, and supplies mostly men’s casual clothes.  DM Heoy prided themselves in quality clothing and personal service. There are still some shops in Glasgow where you can get a personal service but nowadays this is unusual.

 

Thornwood Cycle Depot

 

The Cycles shop wass known for bike, tennis rackets and wireless repairs it is in 595 Dumbarton Road, Partick. The shop sold the British made Hercules cycles. By the 1930’s the Hercules manufacturer was one of the largest cycle producers selling 40% of their stock abroad.

Thornwood Cycle Depot also sold Wirelesses the advert boasts they have the most component parts in the West End and that the shop made wirelesses to order. Expressway Cleaners are now in the Thornwood Cycle Depot’s place.

 

M. Skinner

 

M Skinner sold school supplies as well as magazines, cigarettes and newspapers. The shop no longer exists. Today shops that sell school supplies don’t sell cigarettes. But shops like WH Smith sell school supplies, magazine and newspapers. M Skinner uses a poem in the advertisement to attract people into the shop. Most of the shops that where in the 1930s are similar to the shops we have today but the products have been improved.

Here are some of the best reports written by our S1 pupils about their research into the tenements and history of the Hyndland area...