Cambuslang
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Cambuslang (Scottish Gaelic: Camas Long) is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is best known for being the largest village in Scotland, with a population of around 20,500. The village is located just south of the River Clyde - about 6 miles southeast of the city of Glasgow.
Cambuslang Main Street includes a large range of shopping and fast food outlets. The train station is also on the main street and is only a 15 minute train ride into the centre of Glasgow.
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Cambuslang Railways
Cambuslang Station was established in 1849 by the Caledonian Railway Company, on its line between Glasgow and Carlisle. Image:Cambuslang 001.JPG It is now a busy, well-equipped station with connections to bus services. The trains run about every ten minutes. Services are divided into, roughly, westbound and eastbound services.
Westbound services include:
- Dalmuir
- Partick
- Milngavie
- Balloch
Eastbound services include:
- Larkhall
- Motherwell via Hamilton or Bellshill
- Lanark via Bellshill & Sheildmuir, with some services via Holytown and Hamilton.
- Carstairs via Bellshill and Carstairs
- Virgin Trains Service to Penzance Town (England) via Carlisle, with a 1-per-2 days frequency.
Cambuslang station is used by around nine hundred to three thousand commuters per day, reduced on Sundays. Engineering work takes place during the night so as to prevent passenger service disruption.
Schooling
Primary Schooling in Cambuslang includes- West Coats Primary School, James Aiton Primary School and St Brides Primary School.
Secondary Schooling in Cambuslang includes- Cathkin High School and Trinity High School. There is also Uddingston Grammar School only one train stop down on the Motherwell via Bellshill line.
History
Name
The name of Cambuslang is very old. With very few exceptions, we can only guess at the origins of old place-names, though it helps if the guess is supported by some more or less well-founded speculation. The Reverend Dr John Robertson, Minister of Cambuslang, suggests in the Second Statistical Account of Scotland (1845), a reasonable derivation for the name of his parish. "Cam, in the British and Celtic, transformed by the Scoto-Saxons (sic) into cambus, signifies bending or bowed- usg or uisg means water- and glan, which in composition becomes LAN – denotes a bank or bank of water. Thus Cambuslang appears to signify the water with the bending bank. But whether the camb or cambus is to be sought for in the bending banks of the rivulet which passes the church or in the magnificent sweep of the Clyde, as it winds round the northern end of the parish, it is impossible to say." He gently contradicts his predecessor, and father-in-law, the Reverend Doctor James Meek, who had written the account in the First Statistical Account of Scotland in 1791-99. Dr Meek had said "Cameos, now changed into Camus or Cambus in the Gaelic language, signifies a crooked torrent or rivulet; and LAN or Launse, now changed into Lang, was the name of a saint famous as the founder of many monasteries".
Origins
The Parish of Cambuslang in the Barony of Drumsargard – whose castle ruins can be discerned to the south-east of Hallside - can be traced back to the time of King Alexander II of Scotland (1214-49) when it belonged to Walter Olifard, justiciar of Lothian. The Barony of Drumsargard passed to Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas in 1370, as part of the settlement in his marriage to Johanna, daughter of Thomas Moray of Bothwell. In 1452 the Douglases were displaced in favour of James Lord Hamilton, who became tenant-in-chief in 1455. This feudal superiority remained with the Dukes of Hamilton – who were also the largest landowners – up until 1922, though the abolition of feudalism in Scotland did not come until the end of the 20th Century.
Geography
Cambuslang parliamentary constituency is very widespread, taking in areas not part of the original Parish such as parts of many smaller towns, or parts of towns, around about it. Areas abutting into Cambuslang include: Croftfoot, Rutherglen, Burnside, Fernhill, Cathkin, North Cambuslang, Industrial Cambuslang (South Cambuslang) , a small part of Dalmarnock, Newton, and until three years ago a small part of Udddinston. Additionally, King's Park also came under Cambuslang (along with Drumsargard, Uddingston and Mt.Vernon) until the county shuffling by S.Lanarkshire Council. Cambuslang contributes vastly to the by-election counting as so many small towns are registered under Cambuslang.
Topography
The Reverend Dr John Robertson, Minister of Cambuslang Kirk, described it, in the Second Statistical Account of Scotland 1845. “It is bounded by the Clyde on the north, which separates it from the Parish of Old Monkland; by the Calder on the east, which separates it from Blantyre; by part of Blantyre and Kilbryde, on the south; and by Carmunnock and Rutherglen on the west.” The highest points in this low-lying Parish are Dechmont Hill (602ft) and Turnlaw (or Turnlea) Hill (553)ft. There are remains of an iron age fort on Dechmont. The land slopes gently downwards to the North West to the River Clyde. The Clyde can overflow the lower parts. Dr Robertson is rather more optimistic, suggesting that ‘the town is traversed by a romantic brook running into the Clyde’. He describes the course of the brook as a ‘romantic gorge’, which is nowadays a park.
The church
The origin of the Parish Kirk of Cambuslang is lost in history, though it is traditionally supposed to have been founded by St Cadoc in the 6th century. Certainly, St Cadoc (or Cadow) is recorded as wandering about the hills of Strathclyde and finally founding a monastery at a spot most likely to have been the current site of the Old Parish Church. However, we hear of its first ecclesiastic about 1180 in relation to the Barony. Later, John Cameron of Locheil was Rector of Cambuslang before he became Bishop of Glasgow. In 1429, as Bishop, he made Cambuslang a prebend of Glasgow Cathedral – meaning that the Rector (or Prebendary) could siphon off its teinds (that is tithes) to pay for one of his officials. The prebendary and his successor were to be perpetual Chancellors of the Cathedral. A later Archbishop of Glasgow James Beaton (or Bethune )was uncle to David Beaton, the Cardinal murdered at the Reformation. James made David Rector (and so prebendary) of Cambuslang in about 1520. The prebendaries had a very fine view of the Cathedral from Cambuslang, but the distance meant they had to reside at Glasgow. Instead, they appointed vicars to care for the souls of the Parish. The vicars were allocated a house and 6 acres (24,000 m²), in an area near the Kirk, which is still called Vicarland. This indicates that the area was (relatively) prosperous. A post-reformation church was erected in 1626 and a village (Kirkhill) grew up around it. A new kirk was built in the middle of the 18th century and this was replaced by the current building during the 19th century.
Our Lady of Cambuslang
Another source of prosperity might have been derived from pilgrims to Our Lady of Cambuslang. Pilgrims had long come to Cambuslang to venerate the "ashes of St Cadoc" so it was not surprising that a chapel was founded in 1379 by William Monypenny, Rector of Cambuslang, and this had been ratified by a Charter of King Robert II (dated the 8 August 1379). The chapel was on the edge of the ravine near Sauchiebog and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. No trace of the chapel remains. Even its location is in doubt, but local Catholics like to think their current church of Saint Bride’s is built on the spot. Nineteenth Century maps suggest it was situated where the Kirkburn gorge crossed the Caledonian Railway. Moreover, there are vestiges of an ancient hospital at Spittal (still called so to this day) some 2.5 miles SE of the Kirk. This again is suggestive of pilgrimages, in search of cures, which is confirmed by the fact that the Chapel was recorded as a valuable commodity at the time of the Reformation.
Prosperity
The soil in Cambuslang was a light loam, suitable for cultivation but its mineral reserves are what brought modern prosperity. There was a limestone so fine as to be called ‘Cambuslang marble’. This is capable of a very high polish. A good example can be seen in an 18th Century fireplace in the Duke of Hamilton’s old hunting lodge at Chatelherault Country Park near Hamilton. (The Hamiltons were Jacobites who got French titles during their exile). However, coal was mined from the 16th century and ironstone from the 18th, and it was these that brought industrial wealth. The extensive ironworks also attracted engineering and manufacturing during the 19th and 20th Centuries - the most prominent being Mitchell Engineering and Hoover (in the process of being shut down). There is also reference to a trade in violet quartz and turkey-red dyeing, associated with the textile industries of nearby Dalmarnock. The standard limestone of the area was used in building – most of the elegant 19th century villas which cover most of today’s Cambuslang were built of limestone, quarried on the spot, or from several quarries, including two at Wellshot and Eastfield.Nowadays, Cambuslang takes advantage of its proximity to the motorway system and has developed several industrial estates and distribution centres.
The Reverend Doctor James Meek wrote the entry for the First Statistical Account of Scotland (published 1791 to 1799). He writes clearly, elegantly, and enthusiastically. He was a true Enlightenment cleric. On the one hand he records personally-gathered and extensive data on weather, population, farming, industry, history, transport and local personalities. He gets quite carried away with enthusiasm in describing the great improvements brought to Cambuslang in the late 18th Century as a result of applying reason and science to practical problems. The opening of the turnpike road to Glasgow was a particular joy. This allowed locals access to a burgeoning market (and allowed them to bring in cartloads of city manure in return). But he lays out a parallel table showing the vast improvements between 1750 and 1790.
The Cambuslang Wark
On the other hand, he is rather distrustful of any suggestion of ‘enthusiasm’ in religion. He realises he is on contentious territory so he affects to tell the whole story of the ‘Cambuslang Wark’ (Cambuslang Work) of 1742 with due dispassion. At the top of the gorge, near the kirk, is a ‘natural amphitheatre on the green side of the ravine’ where the Methodist preacher George Whitefield came to preach in the open. This was part of the Great Awakening or Revival, affecting the whole of the U.K. and stretching to the colonies in North America. As Dr Meeks successor (and son-in-law) Dr Robertson describes it in the Second Statistical Account it occurred from the 15th of February the 15th of August 1742 under the ministry of the Rev Mr Mcculloch ‘when in an encampment of tents on the hillside, Whitefield, at the head of a band of clergy, held, day after day a festival, which might be called awful, but scarcely solemn, among a multitude calculated by contemporary writers, to amount to 30,000 people.’ Dr Robertson had inherited his father-in-law’s suspicion of ‘enthusiasm’.A centenary event was held on the 14th of August 1842 attracting from 10,000 to 20,000 participants.
Population
Dr Robertson also carries on Dr Meek’s own enthusiasms – for collecting detail of the progress of science and industry in Cambuslang, as indicated by a growing populations which he tabulates thus:
| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 934 |
| 1775 | 1096 |
| 1785 | 1088 |
| 1791 | 1288 |
| 1796 | 1558 |
| 1801 | 1616 |
| 1807 | 1870 |
| 1811 | 2035 |
| 1815 | 2045 |
| 1821 | 2301 |
| 1831 | 2697 |
| 1835 | 2705 |
Census data (given in the Gazetteer of Scotland in 1901) shows that the population had grown in 1881 to 5538. By 1891 it was 8323. Dr Robertson says that most of the population lived in ‘villages’ (really very small hamlets) while the rest lived in ‘rural areas’. None of the villages bore the name of Cambuslang (this was the parish). Their names are retained in district names to this day but Dr Robertson recorded the thirteen villages as Dalton, Lightburn, Deans, Howieshill, Vicarland, Kirkhill, Sauchiebog, Chapelton, Bushy hill, Culluchburn, Silverbank, East Coats, and West Coats.
Heritors
He also gave details of the ‘heritors’ (the landowners who appointed the minister and schoolteacher and set the rates to pay for them and the poor rate). The most important heritor was still (in 1845) the Duke of Hamilton but all the estates, big and small, were listed, with their area.
| Estate | Area | |
|---|---|---|
| (acre) | (m²) | |
| Cambuslang | 3507 | 14 190 000 |
| Westburn | 800 | 3 240 000 |
| Newton | 361 | 1 460 000 |
| Spittal | 203 | 822 000 |
| Moriston | 50 | 202 000 |
| Rosebank | 50 | 202 000 |
| Daviesholm | 50 | 202 000 |
| Hallside | 50 | 202 000 |
| Crookedshields | 50 | 202 000 |
| Caldergrove | 20 | 81 000 |
| Chapel | 5 | 20 000 |
| Letterick | 4 | 16 000 |
| Do. | 3 | 12 000 |
Not all these heritors lived in the Parish (for example the Parish Records indicate that the Duke was always represented by a minion), but Dr Robertson opines. "The number of families of independent fortune residing occasionally or permanently in the parish is about 5. There are about 7 fatuous persons and 2 blind." (not among the heritors, one presumes).
A railway suburb
By the end of the 19th century, many of the population were ‘well-off Glasgow businessmen’ (according to the Gazateer of Scotland) who could now reach their country seat by train. Many of the heritors had sold off their estates for building. In the late 1860s, Thomas Gray Buchanan sold of the ‘lands of Wellshot’ on which elegant limestone and slate roofed mansions were built. His own mansion house still exists – a very modest, and not very pretty, early 19th century country house, situated in Milton Avenue off ‘Buchanan Drive’ – though it is divided into flats. The original wall to its orchard and garden can be seen on Brownside Road – the limestone blocks are roughly hewn as opposed to more ‘modern’ villas whose machine cut stones are very regular.
Buildings
The following is largely taken from Williamson et al (see Bibliogrpahy)
Churches
Cambuslang Baptist Church (1895, by William Ferguson). New Testament Greek ‘classical style’ typical of Baptist churches, with an ‘ingeniously planned’ Memorial Hall at the rear (1932, by Millar and Black).
Cambuslang Flemington Hallside Church (1885, with halls of 1929) in simple lancet style.
Cambuslang Old Parish Church (1839-41, by David Cousin; chancel rebuilt in 1919-22 to plans drawn up before the First World War in 1913 by MacGregor Chalmers; War Memorial 1921 by MacGregor Chalmers; Halls 1895-7 by A Lindsay Miller, extended 1968). This is the successor to the original and subsequent parish churches, with some memory of it medieval predecessors in its Transitional style, if a bit ‘English’ in perspective. A stone inscribed ‘AMT 1626’ inside the spire may be a relic of the first post-reformation kirk. The arms the Heritors are displayed on the walls of the kirk, with those of the Duke of Hamilton, as chief Heritor, appearing a dozen times. The current decorative scheme dates from 1957-58 includes stained glass windows (by Sadie McLellan) showing the Life and Works of St Cadoc, Christ as Head of the Church, symbols of the Passion and Angels. Tapestries , also by McLellan, include an Angus Dei, Burning Bush. The organ of 1896 is by Abbot & Smith of Leeds and was rebuilt in 1968 by Peter Conacher of Huddersfield. The bell is inscribed MIH 1612 (for John Houston, a heritor) and CH (Charles Hogg, an Edinburgh bell-founder).
St Andrews Church of Scotland (1961-6, by Beveridge & Dallachy). This was part of the new town centre ‘with many popular mannerisms’. In one courtyard is a relief of 'Christ and St Andrew' (by Thomas Wallen, who also designed the font and chancel pavement). The furnishings and stained glass windows are 19th century relics from the demolished Rosebank and West Parish churches. The organ is by Compton.
St Bride’s Catholic Church is a small church of 1902, possibly on the site of a medieval chapel dedicated to Our Lady.
St Cuthbert’s Episcopal Church is the hall of a church planned in 1909 by HD Walton but never built. Land was gifted by Anne, Duchess of Hamilton.
St Paul’ United Free Church (1904-5, by Alexander Petrie).
Trinity Parish Church (1897-99, by William Ferguson). Originally a United Presbyterian Church, it is of red Corncockle sandstone in a freely interpreted Perp style, advertising the wealth of the surrounding suburb. The stained glass show, in the gallery, the ‘Resurrection’ by Stephen Adam (after 1914) and, in the east aisle, ‘Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem’ by Gordon Webster (1947)
N.B. Trinity Parish Church and St Paul’s United Free Church are now amalgamated under the name Trinity St Paul's. Rev Eileen M Ross BD (Hons), MTh is the minister at Trinity St Paul's.
Image:Cambuslang 003.JPG Cambuslang Main Street.
Other buildings
Drumsargard Castle near Hallside. A circular mound is all that remains, though the stones were used c1775 to build Hallside Farm.
Gilbertfield Castle – a 17th century fortified house now gently decaying.
Wellshot House – original early 19th century mansion house of Thomas Gray Buchanan, on whose lands the late 19th century villa suburb was built. The walls to his orchard can be seen on Brownside Road, as well as (so it is claimed) the gatehouse.
Westburn House Do’cote(18th century) – now in the grounds of Cambuslang Golf Club. Westburn House was built in 1685 and demolished at the end of the 19th century. The dovecote is all that remains. It is octagonal, single chambered, with an ogee slate roof, two circular windows and a low door. Around the top, four dove holes and them a continuous stringcourse-cum-pen. Harled in 1978. Inside there are 488 nest-holes with slate perches.
Cambuslang Public Library – a county council erection by John Stewart in 1936-38 – ‘one long range with stripped classical detail’.
West Coats Primary Cambuslangs First school after Cambuslang public school.,During the war it was transformed into a hospital'.
Vogue Bingo was built in 1929 as a theatre (Savoy Theatre, by John Fairweather) which became a cinema (Vogue Cinema) in the 1930s. It has a typical 19th century classical façade and unspoiled interiors and engraved glass shop fronts.
Cambuslang Bowling Club, founded in 1874, when this suburb was laid out, has a classical gateway and pavilion with a miniature Baronial tower (all of which may be later).
Cambuslang Public School (1882-83, by A Lindsay Miller; later an annex of Cambuslang College of the Building Trades; presently a nursing home). Has a decorative façade of Tudor-Gothic style, and plainer extensions of pre-1910 nearby.
James Aiton Primary School (a county council erection of 1974, by Edward Allan) This was part of the post-tenement developments. It is one story, circular, open planned and pre-fabricated.
St Bride’s Primary School (1936, by John Stewart of the county council). Built as an RC Advanced Division school, in his ‘ particularly severe stripped classical manner’.
Cambuslang Institute (1892-8, by A Lindsay Miller; extended in 1906 and 1910. Interior modernised in 1978-83.
Health Institute (1926, by John Stewart, Lanarkshire County Council architect). It is similar in style to his other buildings if a little more domestic.
Police Barracks (1911, converted into sheltered housing in 1982) has an attractive 17th century doorcase enclosing the arms of Lanarkshire Constabulary.
Rosebank Dyeworks (1881 until 1945) banded with Greek key pattern in white brick on red and visually very striking, with a double pitched roof and bell turret.
Hoover factory (1946 and later) is large and modern and now being emptied.
New town centre (completed in 1965) had a fine public square in modernist style, surrounded by two stories of shops and high blocks of flats, all forming a pleasing whole. More brutalist blocks are further to the west.
Social housing is pleasant and varied – cottage-flats ‘fit for heroes’ (1920s); Art Deco brick trim on whitened render (1930s); ‘modernist’ (1950’s and 60s) and brutalist (1960s and 1970s). Image:Cambuslang 005.JPG Suburban villas in various styles, but mostly standard Scottish Victorian (with a hint of the Italianate.
New housing is being erected in all areas.
Politics
Westminster
Cambuslang is in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West United Kingdom parliamentary constituency for Westminster elections. There was an electorate of 73,950 at the General Election of the 1st of May 2003, of which 43,261 voted (ie turnout was 58.5%) Tommy McAvoy retained the seat for the Labour Party with a majority of 16,112 (37.2%). Others were Ian Robertson (Liberal Democrat) - 7942 votes (18.4%); Margaret Park (Scottish National Party) - 6023 votes (13.9%); Peter Crerar (Conservative Party) - 3621 votes (8.4%); Bill Bonar (Scottish Socialist Party) - 1164 votes (1.1%); Janice Murdoch (United Kingdom Independence Party) - 457 votes (1.1%)
Holyrood
Cambuslang is in the Glasgow:Rutherglen Scottish parliamentary constituency for the parliament at Holyrood. In June 2003, 49,512 electors were eligible to vote. The turnout was 23,560 (47.6%). Janice Hughes retained the seat for Labour with 10794 votes, a majority of 6303 (26.8%). Other candidates were Robert Brown (Liberal Democrat) - 4491 votes (19.1%); Anne McLaughlin (Scottish National Party) - 3517 votes (14.9%); Gavin Brown (Conservative Party) - 2499 votes (10.6%);Bill Bonar (Scottish Socialist Party) - 2259 votes (9.6%).
South Lanarkshire Council
The councilors elected for Cambuslang in the 2003 local elections were
Ward 63 Cambuslang Central Bob Rooney (Labour)
Ward 64 Cathkin/Springhall Russell Clearie (Labour)
Ward 65 Fernhill Patricia Osbourne (Labour)
Ward 66 Kirkhill/Whitlawburn David Baillie (Liberal Democrat)
Ward 67 Eastfield JohnMcGuinness(Labour)
Famous residents or connections
Saint Cadoc or Cadow (died c 570) reputedly founded a monastery on the site of the present Old Parish Church in the second half of the sixth century. Cadoc was prestigious enough in his lifetime for local chiefs to have recourse to him to settle disputes. This reputation lasted well into the Middle Ages, where solemn bonds and oaths were sworn over his (or his followers') remains. Just before the Reformation, a local notable left a desire to be interred "with the ashes of St Cadoc". He is remembered today in the name of a local primary school.
Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 - 1587 , is reputed to have crossed the Clyde at the "fliers ford" as she fled to England from the Battle of Langside , (1567). The ford is situated where the Kirkburn enters the river, below the bridge near the supermarket.
Cardinal David Beaton was Rector and prependary of Cambuslang from 1520. (see above).
Lt William Hamilton, 1665 to 1751 who wrote a metrical abridgement, in 18th century Scots, of Blind Harry 's life of Sir William Wallace, lived in Westburn and Gilbertfield – whose 17th century castle remains, though in ruins. He corresponded with Alan Ramsay and his poetry was praised in an epistle by Robert Burns - where he referred to him as "Gilbertfield".
Claudius Buchanan was born in Cambuslang in 1766 to the schoolmaster.His maternal grandfather had been converted at the Cambuslang Wark. He died in Hertfordshire in 1815. His studies at Cambridge were supported by John Newton , the anti-slavery campaigner. His books and publications seeking to strengthen the Christian presence in India resulted in the setting up of an educational and ecclessiastical structure. Jane Austen , in one of her letters, professed to have loved these books. He was honoured for his missionary work by Glasgow and Oxford Universities and he seems to have made enough money in India to fund several prizes to promote missionary activity back home.
David Dale , 1739 - 1806 , Scottish industrialist and philanthropist. His efforts to establish a cotton-spinning factory at Flemington failed but was very successful as co-founder of the New Lanark Mills in 1786. Dale owned the estate of Rosebank in Cambuslang, which he used as a summer retreat from his townhouse (reputedly still standing) in Charlotte Street Glasgow and to where he retired and lived until his death. The estate was sold after his death to the Caledonian Railway Company, which divided it in two (to accommodate the new railway). The half to the north of the railway line (which included Rosebank House) eventually became Rosebank Industrial Estate (including the Rosebank Dyeworks. The southern half was sold to Thomas Gray Buchanan, a Glasgow merchant, related to the Buchanan who established Buchanan Street in Glasgow, who established a country retreat at Wellshott House (still standing) but his son Michael sold off the lands to build suburban villas in the 1860s'.
John Claudius Loudon 1783 - 1843 the famous gardener (or rather "horticultural writer, dendrologist and designer") was born in Cambuslang to a respectable farming family. He wrote the Encyclopaedia of Gardening 1822 , invented a flexibible iron-bar sash which made possible such monumental greenhouses as the Palm House at Kew Gardens and the Crystal Palace. He also laid down the prototypical semi-detached house (in Porchester Terrace, London), to satisfy the needs of the emergent (and aspirant) middle classes.
Sir Thomas Lipton of tea fame lived in the Johnstone Villa in Cambuslang and one of the (detached) villas in Wellshot – now the North Street Health Centre – was occupied by an aunt. He often drove in style in a carriage-and-four to Glasgow.
Air Vice-Marshal John B Wallace (born 1907) came from Cambuslang. He was Deputy Director-General of Medical Services, Royal Air Force from 1961 to 1966.
Mick McGahey, (1925 - 1999) Scottish Miners leader, worked in the mines of Cambuslang. There is a significant memorial (in the form of mine workings) to him at the east end of Main Street.
David Forbes Martyn, FRS physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and its President for 1969-70 was born in Cambuslang in 1906 and died 1970
Mike Watson – a Labour life peer, Lord Watson of Invergowrie – who was given a 16 month prison sentence in 2005 for wilful fire-raising – was born in Cambuslang in 1949, though moved early to Invergowrie near Dundee.
Midge Ure pop-singer in Slik and Ultravox and leading campaigner against world hunger - including Band Aid and Live 8. He was born James Ure in Cambuslang on 10 October 1953 and was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at Dundee Abertay University in October 2005.
Scott Harrison the World Boxing Organisation, (WBO), featherweight champion for 2002 was born on the 19th of August 1977 and brought up in Cambuslang.
Bibliography
- Groome, Francis H. (1903). Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, ISBN 185506572X.
- Williamson, Elizabeth; Riches, Anne; Higgs, Malcolm (1990). The Buildings of Scotland - Glasgow. Penguin Books. ISBN 0300096747.
- Magnusson, Magnus (1990). Chambers Biographical Dictionary W & R Chambers Ltd ISBN 055016040X
External links
- Views of Old Cambuslang
- Historical perspective for Cambuslang from the Gazetteer for Scotland
- The Statistical Accounts of Scotland
- [1] for an extract on Cambuslang from Rambles Round Glasgow by Hugh MacLelland
- [2] for an account of Claudius Buchanan
- [3] for pictures and histories of Wellshott House, Rosebank House and other country houses round Glasgow.
- [4] for Jane Austen's letter mentioning Buchanan