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Originally Posted by littlemo
been loads of time, all the best places mind! Castlemilk...ever wonder where that name came from! Barrhead, easterhouse, Gorbles, Pollok......
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Littlemo just how do you know all these erm... lovely places - I lived in easterhouse for 20 years so if you have been before you'll know what its like - these areas dont have a good reputation about them at all - nothing wrong with the folk that live there - the places just dont have a good name !!
the gorbals is now a yuppie village with £100k flats -very posh now , compared to what it used to be like with those huge high rise flats .
So please tell me how you knowof these areas !
And just for you Littlemo - How Castlemilk got its name !
The lands known as
Cassilton of Carmunnock were bought by the Stuarts in 1460 and it is here they started construction of Cassilton Tower. The Stuarts brought the name
Castlemilk with them. The family owned estates in Dumfriesshire, south of Lockerbie, named after their
castle beside the River
Mylk. (Their Castlemilk Estate also gave its name to Britain’s rarest breed of sheep, the Castlemilk Moorit!) When the family sold their lands in the south and moved their main residence to the area known as Cassilton in 1579, they changed its name to Castlemilk. Cassilton Tower’s main claim to fame was that
Mary, Queen of Scots lodged here the night before the battle of Langside, in 1568.
Now you can sleep easier at night now !