page_title: Rutherglen
section_title: Springhall
hierarchical_section_title: Rutherglen / Geography / Springhall and Cathkin / Springhall
caption_attribution_description: English: East Kilbride Road Facing the Glasgow direction.
context_page_description: Rutherglen is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located immediately south-east of Glasgow – 3 miles from its city centre – and directly south of the River Clyde. Having existed as a Lanarkshire burgh in its own right for more than 800 years, in 1975 Rutherglen lost its own local council and administratively became a component of the City of Glasgow District Council within the Strathclyde region. In 1996 the towns were reallocated to the South Lanarkshire council area.
context_section_description: Springhall is a self-contained 1960s local authority housing estate, mostly consisting of a compact network of maisonettes, and featuring a community centre and library dating back to the time of the scheme's construction but upgraded in 2019. Below the original library is a small set of local shops. There is also a catholic church and two local schools (St Anthony's RC Primary and Loch Primary) that were rebuilt in the 2000s in a mirror image of one another and share a playground, the playing fields for which are built on the site of a former loch (Boultrie Loch) which was popular for curling and skating in winter. A stone sign welcomes visitors into the estate from the entrance off East Kilbride Road (the A749 road) where there is also a pub, 'The Braes' (previously the Cathkin Hotel), on the opposite side. A short way further south on the Springhall side of the A749 is the unusual white castellated villa 'Elpalet', designed by the housebuilder John McDonald (whose companies constructed thousands of new homes in Glasgow in the 1930s, including hundreds in Burnside), to be his own residence. The property is now divided into apartments.
  A 13-storey tower block (the only building of such height in the burgh, although there are 10 towers of the same design in Cambuslang) looms over the centre of the neighbourhood; it was built on the site of the Springhall mansion house that once occupied the land, which came to public attention in the 1910s, first when suffragette Frances Gordon was imprisoned for attempting to set the house on fire, then soon afterwards when a contingent of Belgian refugees of World War I were invited to stay there; it was demolished in the 1940s. Adjacent to the tower is a sports pitch in a wire mesh pen.
  Cathkin High School, the secondary school affiliated to Loch Primary, is located nearby at the western side of the neighbouring estate of Whitlawburn – administratively this is part of Cambuslang, although shares some amenities with Springhall, with the schemes connected under the main road by a pedestrian underpass).
caption: The A749 East Kilbride Road looking north, with Springhall buildings on left
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