| In these rapidly changing times when children are growing up never knowing life without their own personal mobile phone and all the other electronic gadgets of modern life it is quite important that the past of the district those children presently live in should be recorded somewhere in line with their modern lifestyle, online. |
| After writing and loading researched work onto the web via free sites like MSN and (more recently) Freepages for about four years I decided the time was right to open a modest www site that is not subject to the whims of free providers (excellent as they are). What will eventually be created on these pages will accurately reflect and correct some parts of previously published versions of the area's history. However, the site only has a capacity of ten pages and so it will never be awash with images and as it cannot come close to hosting the full history page content may well change from time to time to try and convey part of what really is a quite a big overall story. | |
The first article loaded is the 'Origin of the name Baillieston' as I feel it is essential that this important piece of research although already published on baillieston.net should be recorded on a independent website like this separate from the MSN group and that it is a name thing - a name that just happened to be convenient to label the village when it emerged and should be dispensed with rather quickly. The actual history of the Lands of Baillieston is altogether another matter entirely.
Other subjects that may surface ................
The landowners, the big houses, who they were, including the knights of the Realm of Scotland.
Agriculture, methods, the tenant farmers and their cottars.
The coalfield from the earliest days, the investors, the history of the local colliers, their struggles and the pits they worked in.
The canal, James Watt, his contract men who built it and the boatmen who sailed it.
The story of the railways, who built them and how they did it.
Social conditions: The folk who literally got their water supply from puddles and other deplorable conditions and tragedies like the cholera.
Place names, including lost names - meanings and origins.
Street names - meanings and origins.
The palm trees which somehow flourished in the non tropical climate.
and much, much more.
contact : smur@baillieston-history.co.uk