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Gilmour Street, GLASGOW, G76 0AT

Eaglesham Cross looking along Gilmour Street. Kirkstyle, a single-storey cottage believed to be of seventeenth century origin is situated to the right of Cross Garage in the foreground. Links to other views of Gilmour Street http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1484257 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1484265 .

A block of two-storey houses at Eaglesham Cross. There was a post office, butcher and general store here at one time; the buildings being converted back to dwelling houses in the twentieth century. Alexander Johnston who owned Sunnyside Nursery had a grocery shop on the corner. Next door was the Post Office. A Bulloch & Co. had a grocery shop at 3 Cheapside Street.

Montgomery Square lies between Montgomery Street at the Cross Keys Inn http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1450299 and Gilmour Street. The churchyard of Eaglesham Parish Church is situated behind the wall on the left of the photograph.

Eaglesham Cross looking along Cheapside Street. There was a post office, butcher and general store here at one time; the buildings being converted back to dwelling houses in the twentieth century. Alexander Johnston who owned Sunnyside Nursery had a grocery shop on the corner. Next door was the Post Office. A Bulloch & Co. had a grocery shop at 3 Cheapside Street. Further down the street and set-back from the line of buildings, is a house which is a miniature of Polnoon Lodge http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1450255 and was once occupied by the Eaglesham Estate factor. A cast-iron finger post http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1530094 can be seen at the corner of Cheapside Street and Gilmour Street.

An example of a curvilinear wallhead chimney at a two-storey building in Cheapside Street.

An asymmetrical two-storey building with ground floor shop built in Cheapside Street. The building has a curvilinear wallhead chimney with 'Established 1835' in cast-iron letters.

A fingerpost at the crossroads is a familiar sight and has been directing travellers to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Strathaven and East Kilbride for many years. Old photographs show the fingerpost has been here for at least one hundred years although has been relocated from its original position at the other side of the crossroads. The post has a spherical boss finial; new fingers were cast and fitted to the post in recent years giving the sign a new lease of life. A similar fingerpost now long gone stood at the south-west corner of Newton Mearns cross. The Eaglesham fingerpost is probably the only remaining fingerpost in East Renfrewshire.

The weather vane atop the steeple of the Parish Church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1424798 is an eagle, a romantic emblem as used by the village and which appears on the Feuars' flag. The cardinal points are indicated by direction arrows rather than their initials.

Kirkstyle, originally known as Kirkstyll of Egilschamme, is one of the oldest buildings in Eaglesham. The cottage is said to be of seventeenth century origin and was occupied by Alexander Currie in 1623. The cottage was probably rebuilt in 1770 with later alterations. The 25-inch 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of Eaglesham (1863) indicates Kirkstyle to be a smithy. Polnoon Lodge http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1450255 was built in 1733 and also pre-dates the development of the planned village in 1769.