Historical Timeline
All about GOW and the surrounding area.
- 1820 Westbank House built by David Smith
- C1875 Westbank house demolished
- 1876 –1885 GOW tenements built by William Young designed by architects John Burnet & Sons
- 1891 GOW becomes part of Glasgow when burgh of Hillhead joined the city
- C1920 Private road (Westbank Quadrant) became the property of City roads department
- C1900 Smith Street renamed Otago Street
- 194? Bomb fell in the backcourt
- 197? Westbank Court Association formed to try to improve backcourts
- 1972 First recorded residents Clean Up reported in Glasgow Herald
- 1980 Backcourt restyled with City Council funds to become open plan
- 1992 Tenements on north side of Otago Street demolished
- 2002 GOW formed after meeting in local shop
- 2003 First Tenement Fair with “Shakespeare in the Back Yard”
- 2005 Backcourt refurbished with Scottish Office funds to promote recycling
- June 2005 First “Gibson Street Gala” when street closed a part of West End Festival
When did the tenement building on the other side of Gibson St fall into the river?
Also, I was in the People’s Palace museum this weekend and they have a display showing when each of the individual burghs merged in the City of Glasgow. Hillhead was listed as 1891, which is the same date given in a Wikipedia article on Hillhead.