'If you have any ideas for reviving this once proud symbol of faded civic pride at the heart of Whiteinch, then please do get in touch' ✍ PaulJSweeney
EARLIER this week I found myself standing on Victoria Park Drive in Whiteinch, looking up at the crumbling, moss-covered baronial red sandstone edifice of its once proud Burgh Hall.
It is a civic pride that many of today’s Glaswegians still feel just as strongly, yet we can’t help but sense a searing despondency when we see these grand public buildings permitted to spiral into such a severe decline. In 1852, Partick became the first such area around Glasgow to set itself up as a police burgh with Maryhill following in 1856 and Govan in 1864. But such parochial rear-guard actions could only delay the inevitable, and in 1891 Maryhill and Springburn were both annexed by Glasgow.
The next massive wave of expansion for Glasgow came in 1912, when Govan and Partick burghs were finally persuaded to join the city. Financial incentives were once again a large driver of the decision and it became a significant milestone for the city, as the population of Glasgow finally rose to more than a million, cementing its status as Britain’s Second City.
This huge displacement of Glaswegians meant that the infrastructure built to serve a much bigger population became chronically underutilised and, as the tax base of the city also declined, many of these once handsome public buildings slowly fell out of use and have steadily decayed ever since, with Springburn Public Halls falling out of use in 1985, and Whiteinch Burgh Halls following in 2002.
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