Newton Mearns Through Time
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A01=Anne Robertson
A01=Graeme Smith
Art Architecture & Photography
Author_Anne Robertson
Author_Graeme Smith
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Cultural History
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History
Local & Urban History
Photography
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- ISBN 9781445636276
- Weight: 309g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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With one foot in the countryside and the other connected to the metropolis, Newton Mearns is the southernmost suburb of Glasgow. The parish of Mearns bounds southwards over undulating landscape and moors to Ayrshire, with the slopes of Clarkston and Busby within its northern edge, marked by the River Earn. From Rouken Glen to Fenwick Moor, from castles and mansions to farmlands, fermtouns, and cotton mills, its 800-year history records a fertile area and an ever-increasing population.
In the twelfth century, King David I granted lands to Walter Fitzalan, and subsequent landowners built Mearns Castle and Pollock Castle. In the 1700s, they were joined by elegant mansions and estates from Greenbank to Balgray, owned by wealthy Glasgow merchants. Railway travel in the nineteenth century brought more villas, and cars and buses from the 1920s enabled new housing and commercial developments. Today, schools and golf courses abound, the countryside is attractive and the climate is fresh.
With experience in building new towns and the renewal of cities and economies, Graeme Smith writes and illustrates city life, growth and changes involving businesses, international trading, education and entertainment. His family has included sea captains, engineers and a marine superintendent.
Anne, a past secretary of the History Group, is a retired general practitioner. Both her and her co-author Graeme Smith have written a selection of previous titles on the local area, including 'Old Newton Mearn's,' Mearns Matters', 'The Theatre Royal: Entertaining a Nation' and 'Alhambra Glasgow'. The royalties from the book will be donated to the Isobel Mair School for Children with Special Needs.
