Pollokshaws
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Pollokshaws is a suburb on the southside of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The housing stock mostly consists of sandstone tenement housing, and tower blocks.
Its residents are a mixture of working class and middle class social groups, and the area also has a large South Asian community.
In recent years the area has seen an influx of asylum seekers being housed in the area's high rise tower blocks and whilst they have mostly been welcomed, some local residents have resented them due to the popular but untrue notion that asylum seekers have "everything provided for them" by the local authority (Glasgow City Council).
The area is currently in the early phase of a regeneration plan which will see one half of the high rise tower blocks being demolished in favour of affordable, social housing which is to built on the reclaimed land in a similar fashion to the Darnley Regeneration Plan several years previously.
Pollok F.C.'s Newlandsfield Park is in the area, adjacent to Pollokshaws East railway station.
An important role in the community has been played by the Pollokshaws Bowling Club which has been going strong since 1854. The club moved in 1954 into Pollok Country Park and has remained there ever since, offering a relaxing and scenic surroundings. The land was donated by Sir John Stirling-Maxwell. The club celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2004, and were honoured with a civic reception in the Glasgow City Chambers.
Pollokshaws is also known as the birthplace of the early 20th century socialist and Scottish Nationalist John MacLean.