HILLHEAD Burgh Hall was designed in the neo-classical style by Lanarkshire-born George Bell of the prolific local partnership, Clarke and Bell.
The architectural firm, founded in 1841 and which closed in 1903, was responsible for structures as diverse as Clyde Spinning Mill in Glasgow, Jamestown Parish Church in Dunbartonshire and Slaughterhouses in Market Street, Glasgow.
But on May 13 1871, the focus was on Hillhead, where the foundation stone of its Burgh Hall was laid as part of a masonic ceremony following a large parade from Botanic Gardens by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Glasgow.
The halls and associated chambers came into use in 1873, with the building including the Burgh Court Hall, the fiscal’s office and the police office – which had ample cell accommodation.
Hillhead Burgh Hall was demolished in 1970 before the conservation of Victorian Glasgow’s built heritage was considered desirable.
In 1972 Glasgow Corporation used the site for Hillhead Library, which was designed in the Brutalist style of concrete expanses, of that era.
1960s: The Up N Down club in Westmoreland Street, Govanhill, formerly the Infamous Claddagh Club, was being demolished when this 1925 poster for the Hampden Picture House was discovered in the rubble.
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