History
Pollokshields was one of the first Garden Suburbs in Britain, with construction starting in 1851 on land owned by the Stirling Maxwell family of Pollok House.
The Maxwells made great efforts to ensure a first class residential district with strict planning controls of the position, quality and use of buildings.The area is divided into two distinctive parts, namely East Pollokshields laid out on a grid pattern of sandstone tenements, whilst West Pollokshields consists of Victorian and Edwardian villas, with green spaces and wide oft tree-lined streets on one side of the railway and large, elegant tenements on the other.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century the character of Pollokshields, as we know it today, was well established with villas, tenements and public buildings built of sandstone, gardens and parks, all a reflection of the city’s late Victorian and Edwardian prosperity. In 1973 Pollokshields was designated as a Conservation and Outstanding Area to halt the decline that had been threatening to destroy the character of the area