page_title: Sandyhills
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sandyhills / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Sandyhills Golf Club
context_page_description: Sandyhills is an area of the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde and has fallen within the Shettleston ward of Glasgow City Council since 2007.
  The area is bordered by Shettleston to the west, Barrachnie to the east, Mount Vernon to the south-east and Tollcross to the south-west; it is separated from Springboig to the north-west and Barlanark to the north-east by the North Clyde Line railway. A golf course bearing the Sandyhills name forms much of the southern boundary.
context_section_description: The pattern of urban growth in the area has led to an irregular tract of land being referred as Sandyhills today. It was originally a small settlement beside the Tollcross Burn, on the road (now the A89) east from the village of Shettleston in Lanarkshire, and took its name from the extensive country estate of the same name located to the south; both features are clearly marked as Sandyhills on William Roy's Military Map of Scotland (1755).
  The wider area became known for mining in the 19th century, with two pits in the immediate area (part of the Mount Vernon Colliery) sited where Blackford Road and Crownhall Place are today. The coal was exhausted by the turn of the 20th century, but Sandyhills survived on the periphery of Shettleston, where several other industries became established leading to its growth in size and importance. Among the oldest buildings in the area are a set of row cottages and the adjacent tenement block containing the 'Gables' public house, and a terrace of sandstone houses on the opposite side of the road.
  Railways provided links in and out of the area for workers and industry, with Mount Vernon North the closest station between the 1880s and the 1950s. Sandyhills Church is located in this area, with the original premises dating from 1900 replaced in the mid 1980s. Shettleston was one of several outlying areas which became part of Glasgow in 1912; however the older part of Sandyhills remained in Lanarkshire (along with Mount Vernon, Baillieston, Springboig, Carmyle, Fullarton and Foxley) and would remain in the Bothwell constituency until all were absorbed by Glasgow in a reorganisation under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
  The southern part of the Sandyhills House estate (which was part of the 1912 transfer to Glasgow) had been converted to a golf course in 1905, and in the early 1930s a housing scheme was constructed on the north-west part of the estate, essentially being a continuation of the contemporary and near-identical 'garden suburb' development south of Shettleston Road which extended to Ardgay Street at the Tollcross Burn. Centred around Amulree Street, this suburban area has changed little since it was built and is where Sandyhills Bowling Club (1930) and Sandyhills Post Office are located. These streets are separated from the Tollcross district to the south by a recreation and parkland area, previously a quarry and the Glasgow Corporation's factory producing foamslag - a housebuilding material derived from steelworks slag (demolished 1981). This park's grass football pitch, used by several local teams, was subjected to vandalism on several occasions in the 2010s.
  The city's need for new accommodation in less space accelerated after World War II, with the remainder of the Sandyhills House estate, including the mansion itself (dating from 1853), converted to housing using two vastly different approaches: 205 temporary and quickly-built prefab dwellings, and four 23-storey tower blocks containing 528 apartments, which upon their completion in 1968 became a landmark for the area. Since the demolition of the Derby Street flats at Hilltown, Dundee in 2013 and the Bluevale and Whitevale Towers and Red Road Flats in Glasgow two years later, the 66 metres (217 ft)-high Sandyhills blocks in Balbeggie Street and Strowan Street have held a distinction as the tallest inhabitable buildings in Scotland eastwards of those in Springburn (Martello Court in Edinburgh is 2 metres shorter).
  Nowadays managed by Glasgow Housing Association which oversaw a refurbishment and recladding in light blue in the late 2000s, soon followed by another reclad in white due to dampness problems which resulted, the towers far outlasted the prefabs which were replaced by a landscaped park at the base of the towers and some permanent houses closer to the older part of the neighbourhood on the main road. The Lizzy Lodge was a pub situated between the tower blocks and the golf course in an isolated late 19th century sandstone villa; the business was earmarked for closure in the late 2000s due to the economic downtu
caption: View from south over Sandyhills Golf Club and tower blocks mid-reclad (2012)
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