Lambhill Stables
Lambhill the beginning
Lambhill was a small village outwith the boundaries of Glasgow until 1926 when it became part of the big city. Most of the men worked in the nearby coalmines, quarries and foundries and lived in small stone cottages. Lambhill House was built in 1788 by William Graham and his descendants lived there until the early part of the 20th century when the Glasgow Corporation took possession. In 1947 Scottish Special Housing laid out the Cadder Scheme on the lands of Lambhill House. The tenement houses in the village built before 1900 were torn down and replaced by modern flats
A Clippie remembers
Strachur Street, previously known as Drummond Street, was the Lambhill terminus for Glasgow Corporation trams. The first service was route 4b to Linthouse and the last route was 31 to Merrylee on 5th December 1959. On the corner there was ‘The Terminus Café’ were the clippies would exchange their many coins for 10 shilling notes and pound notes to lighten the load from their heavy money bag. One clippie Annie Millson recalls “I popped into the cafe to change coins for notes, unfortunately for me the driver did not realise I had not returned to the tram when he took off on the outward journey. It was not until he got to Saracen Cross that it occurred to him I was missing (I did like a wee gab with him during the journey, so he must have been missing me). He waited until I arrived on the next tram and we went on our merry way - my takings were a bit lower that day!”
Cadder Pit Disaster
Twenty-two men lost their lives in the mine shafts of Cadder No 15 and No 17 Colliery in 1913 in the pits situated near to the Cadder Woods. On the afternoon of Sunday 3rd August 1913, at around 4.30pm, a fire broke out in a cabin near to one of the shafts. Within a few hours most of the back shift of No 15 colliery, consisting of a maintenance squad of 26 men, had been overcome by fire and smoke. Fireman Charles Riley died attempting to warn the miners. Three men escaped by another passage and one, Michael McDonald, was found alive after 21 hours in the burning pit.
