Editing Pollokshaws (section)

==History==
[[File:John Maclean's casket being removed from his Pollokshaws home.jpg|thumb|left|[[John Maclean MA|John Maclean's]] casket being removed from his Pollokshaws home in November 1923]]
Pollokshaws was originally a village predominantly dedicated to weaving in the 17th century. A group of Flemish weavers were brought to the area in the 19th century by the landowners, the Maxwells of Pollok, on account of their exceptional weaving skills.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/lifestyle/13278230.eye-spy-glasgow-in-memory-of-the-queer-folk/|title=Eye Spy Glasgow: In memory of the "Queer Folk"|website=Evening Times}}</ref>

Pollokshaws was granted a charter to become a Burgh of Barony in 1812.<ref name=":0">[https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=32321&p=4 Pollokshaws Heritage Trail], Paul O'Cuinn, p4</ref> It became a police burgh in 1858<ref name=":0" /> and remained a [[burgh]] of [[Renfrewshire (historic)|Renfrewshire]] until 1912 when it was annexed to the City of Glasgow.<ref name=scotcities>[http://www.scotcities.com/cathcart/pollokshaws_auldhouse.htm Pollokshaws & Auldhouse illustrated guide], Scotcities</ref><ref>[https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA00986&t=2 Pollokshaws Panorama (Glasgow City Archives, Department of Architectural and Civic Design, 1958)], The Glasgow Story</ref><ref>[https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSH00030&t=2 Pollokshaws Townhouse (Pollok House, 1830)], The Glasgow Story</ref> Though it had been an industrial area, this changed in 1957 when it was proposed as the second Comprehensive Development Area in Glasgow (the first was [[Hutchesontown]]). The area was demolished and rebuilt anew.<ref>[https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA00904&t=2 Clock Tower, Pollokshaws (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Bulletin Photographs, 1982)], The Glasgow Story</ref><ref name=highrise>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theglasgowstory.com/story/?id=TGSFF13|title=Modern Times: 1950s to The Present Day: High Rise Developments|author=Ranald MacInnes|website=The Glasgow Story|access-date=11 November 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Tower Block UK photo glw2-31 (Shawbridge 1983-1).jpg|thumb|left|View over tower blocks in the Shawbridge area, 1983]]
[[File:Flats on Shawbridge Street (geograph 5453890).jpg|thumb|left|New apartments in the same area, 2017]] 
Several residential [[tower blocks]] were built as part of the CDA plan in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/pollokshaws-comprehensive-development-area-unit-1|title=Tower Block UK:Pollokshaws CDA Unit 1 |publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]]|access-date=23 January 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/pollokshaws-comprehensive-development-area-unit-2-phase-1|title=Tower Block UK: Pollokshaws CDA Unit 2 Phase 1|publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]]|access-date=23 January 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/pollokshaws-comprehensive-development-area-unit-2-phase-2|title=Tower Block UK: Pollokshaws CDA Unit 2 Phase 2|publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]]|access-date=23 January 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/pollokshaws-comprehensive-development-area-unit-2-phase-3|title=Tower Block UK: Pollokshaws CDA Unit 2 Phase 3|publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]]|access-date=23 January 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/pollokshaws-comprehensive-development-area-unit-2-phase-4|title=Tower Block UK: Pollokshaws CDA Unit 2 Phase 4|publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]]|access-date=23 January 2019 }}</ref><ref name=emp-pshaws>{{cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/complex/101013/pollokshaws-glasgow-united-kingdom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228003938/https://www.emporis.com/complex/101013/pollokshaws-glasgow-united-kingdom|url-status=usurped|archive-date=28 February 2019|title=Buildings in Glasgow: Pollokshaws|publisher=[[Emporis]]|access-date=27 February 2019 }}</ref> Most of these were later demolished between 2008 and 2016 in the Shawbridge Corridor regeneration.<ref name=scotcities/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7516267.stm|title=Tower blocks demolished in blast |work=BBC News|date=20 July 2008 |access-date=17 February 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.urbanrealm.com/news/1721/GHA_demolish_Shawbridge_pair_.html|title=GHA demolish Shawbridge pair |website=Urban Realm|date=31 August 2009|access-date=17 February 2019 }}</ref><ref name=tallorder>{{cite web |url=https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/13288271.a-tall-order-as-tower-blocks-to-be-demolished/|title=A tall order as tower blocks to be demolished|work=Evening Times|date=11 August 2014 |access-date=17 February 2019 }}</ref> The blowdowns of the first two towers in July 2008 was filmed in detail by an American company and can be seen as part of the documentary series "The Detonators".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discoveryuk.com/series/the-detonators/|title=The Detonators|publisher=Discovery UK|access-date=15 April 2021}}</ref> Low-rise, mainly private housing has replaced the blocks. A group of four towers at Shawhill remain standing going into the 2020s,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/pollokshaws-comprehensive-development-area-unit-1|title=Tower Block UK:Pollokshaws CDA Unit 1|publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]]|access-date=23 January 2019 }}</ref><ref name=emp-pshaws/> along with a single block at Cartcraigs on the southern periphery of the district.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/pollokshaws-comprehensive-development-area-unit-2-blocks-28-30|title=Tower Block UK: Pollokshaws CDA Unit 2 Blocks 28–30|publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]]|access-date=23 January 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/147615 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116230344/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/147615 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=16 November 2021 |title=33 Cartcraigs Road |work=[[Emporis]]}}</ref>