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4 unusual facts about Thornliebank


Humphrey Crum-Ewing

Crum-Ewing was born Humphrey Crum, the son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank, Renfrewshire and his wife Jane Maclae, daughter of Walter Ewing Maclae of Cathkin.

Thornliebank

Woodfarm High School is a secondary school situated in Woodfarm, Thornliebank and has around 800 pupils.

57 runs in an anti-clockwise circle: Auchinairn, Springburn, City Centre, Shawlands, Thornliebank Arden and Darnley Housing Schemes, then onto Silverburn, Ibrox, Glasgow City Centre, Springburn & Auchinairn.

Walter's son Alexander Crum who took over the printing works was a major philanthropist supporting housing, education, and leisure facilities in the village.


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Alexander Crum

Crum was the eldest son of Walter Crum FRS of Thornliebank and his wife Jesse Graham, daughter of William Graham of Burntshiel, Renfrewshire.

Jenny Lind, Glasgow

56a/57a Auchinairn, Woodhill - City Centre - Ibrox - Silverburn - Pollok - Darnley - Deaconsbank - Jenny Lind - Thornliebank - Shawlands - City Centre - Charing Cross (57a Clockwise, 56a Anticlockwise)

Rouken Glen

Amongst the park's owners were Walter Crum of Thornliebank and Archibald Cameron Corbett, M.P. for Tradeston, Glasgow (later Lord Rowallan) who gifted the estate and mansion house to the citizens of Glasgow.

Woodfarm

Woodfarm is served by the nearby Robslee, Thornliebank, and Our Lady of the Missions primary schools, as well as Woodfarm High School and St Ninian's High School.


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