Kilmun Street, night of 14-15 March 1941
I was studying this photo from 1939, looking north across Dawsholm gas works and chemical works. My clumsy attempt to match it using Google Earth is below: To try to orientate you, you can just see the most westerly of the pools at Maryhill Locks on the right and the new houses in the middle on the right are on the corner of Maryhill Road and Cowal Street. Maryhill Road runs from the right hand side just above the centre up to the left, crossing the railway at Maryhill Station, then heading diagonally up and left to the Garscube Campus. Then I realised the building on the extreme right of the 1939 photo was Celtic Street Tram Depot: The tram depot is on the near side of Maryhill Road, with the cantilevered roof. To the right there are tenements (still standing, at the traffic lights in modern terms) but I was interested in the tenements on the other side of the street This is a map of the area in 1910: Here is the same area in 1933: And again in 1938: My interest was t...