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11 unusual facts about Shettleston


2002 Glasgow floods

The East End of Glasgow was the worst affected district of the city, 200 people were evacuated from their homes in Greenfield and Shettleston on the Tuesday night.

Budhill

It is situated between Springboig and Shettleston, and is famously associated with Scottish rock band The Fratellis, where the band used to play in a studio above a Chinese restaurant.

Eastbank Academy

Eastbank Academy is a Scottish secondary school in the suburb of Shettleston in Glasgow.

George Bogle of Daldowie

After George Senior, the family divided into three branches - the Shettleston branch, the Daldowie branch and the Carmyle , or Bogleshole branch.

George Wyllie

Wyllie was born in Shettleston, in the east end of Glasgow, and grew up in Craigton, in the south west of the city.

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Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway

The Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway was a railway company in Scotland that was formed to run trains between Shettleston and Hamilton.

John Quinton Pringle

He died in East Kilbride on the 21st of April 1925 and is buried in Sandymount, Shettleston, in the east end of Glasgow .

Scottish Gypsy and Traveller groups

Housing an estimated 80% of all showfamilies Glasgow is believed to have the largest concentration of Showmen funfair quarters in Europe, centred mostly in Shettleston, Whiteinch and Carntyne.

Springboig

Springboig lies to the north of Shettleston, Budhill and east of Greenfield, Carntyne and Lightburn Hospital and Greenfield Park, and is just south of Edinburgh Road (A8) and Cranhill.

Stephen Fullarton

Fullarton, a native of Elvan Street, Shettleston left school at 14 and worked to earn money for the upkeep of his family, a task made all the more onerous by the death of his father two years later.


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