The conversion of the Speirs Wharf flats gave residents a peaceful canal-side place to live near the heart of the city as this image taken on a spring day in 1991 depicts

Glasgow Times:

CROSSHILL Farm in south east Glasgow had been in the Mitchell family since 1888, and when it was visited by the Evening Times in 1956, Mr Mitchell was the second generation to work it.
With its cows grazing on pasture behind the house and a  cluster of lively hens pecking around the paths, it successfully ignored the presence of the city nearby.
“We had a lively social life among the surrounding farmers when I was a youngster,” Mr Mitchell said then, before rattling off the names of the one-time thriving farms in the neighbourhood.
“The Carmunnock Farmers’ Ball was the big event and we all drove to it in open traps in all kinds of weather. The fun was good, believe me,” he grinned.
Not long before, there had been 29 farms in south-of-the-Clyde Glasgow – sitting within a two-mile radius of Hampden Park – but by 1956 there were fewer than five.
But times had changed, and Mr Mitchell supplied milk to around 600 families who then lived in rows of houses spread out from the front of his house.
The new houses on green fields may may not have been
welcomed by some.
But at least it made the milk delivery runs shorter.