'The housing scheme always had the most fantastic Christmas lights displays.'
As a child, I remember when December rolled around, we would be bundled into the car to see them - colourful and bright festive displays in the front gardens of the houses. It was my first introduction to one of the city’s largest housing schemes, which was the biggest in its day.
Glasgow Corporation bought the land for its new scheme from the Summerlee Iron Company in 1921. The Corporation’s aim was to build a garden suburb, a smaller version of the garden city movement popular at the time. Although smaller in scope than Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth in Hertfordshire, the design of Knightswood shared many similarities with them. Each house in Knightswood was to have its own garden and the housing scheme would also incorporate other green spaces.
Before its purchase by Glasgow Corporation, Knightswood was a rural area. It lay within the county of Dumbarton in the parish of New Kilpatrick. Its countryside location was the perfect setting for one of the few public buildings to exist before the area was developed: Knightwood Hospital.This was a shared venture between the burghs of Hillhead, Maryhill and Partick.
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