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Old Glasgow Road, GLASGOW, G71 7QS

View towards the Main Street.

Dates from 1924: Compare Image

Shown as Trinity Parish Church on older map

Lodge St Bryde, Uddingston No.579, Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Tunnocks factory in background

According to http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/333024/details/uddingston+163+main+street+drill+hall/ there was a drill hall above the shops which, in 1914, was the base for "C" Company, 6th battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).

The view is superficially similar to another contributor's picture of the Main Street (Image), but the present photograph was taken from a point about 500 metres further to the north. The people near the middle of the picture are standing beside the junction with Gardenside Street. The view is from the junction with Lower Millgate. My thanks to John M, who pointed out that parts of the building near the centre of the picture, on the far side of Gardenside Street, where the people are standing, was used as a drill hall in the First World War. John also supplied the following useful Canmore link with further details: https://canmore.org.uk/site/333024/uddingston-163-main-street-drill-hall

Looking along Main Street at its junction with Bellshill Road. Until the early 1970's when the M74 bypassed Uddingston, this was the A74 to Glasgow.

This sandstone milestone is in the grounds of Uddingston Parish Church, tended by a church member. The legend reads - 6/Miles from/GLASGOW/3½ Miles from/HAMILTON. It is in Bothwell Parish. It has an ellipse oval cross-section and is about 100cm tall. Near the ground can be seen the unworked section of stone that would have been under ground level originally. There is vertical broaching on the sides and top. It was erected by the Airdrie & Shotts Turnpike Trust sometime after 1764 but this is not its original site.

Looking south-east along Old Glasgow Road towards the B7071. The church was built on the site of Bothwell Castle Farm pond in 1872-74. About 1852 the route to Glasgow was changed to go northwards along what is now the B7071. This milestone was originally nearly ½ mile northwest but was set up in the church grounds in the 1960s. There are only two milestones left on this route. The other Glasgow 8 is built into the wall just north of Bothwell Bridge over the R Clyde. NS70945794. Link-6097748. Both are unusual in that the distances are 'From', most milestones say 'To'.