Editing Pollokshaws (section)

==Landmarks==
[[File:Pollokshaws Burgh Hall (geograph 2658809).jpg|thumb|[[Pollokshaws Burgh Hall]] ]] 
[[Pollokshaws Burgh Hall]] on Pollokshaws Road, built in 1895–98 by architect [[Robert Rowand Anderson]] in the [[Renaissance architecture|Scots renaissance style]], was originally the municipal headquarters of the independent burgh before passing into the ownership of [[Glasgow Corporation]] following annexation. Now a Category A [[listed building]], it was closed by the council in the 1990s but subsequently reopened for community use by a charitable trust.<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB33953|desc=2025 POLLOKSHAWS ROAD AND BENGAL STREET, POLLOKSHAWS BURGH HALL|cat=A|access-date=6 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=About |url=https://pollokshawsburghhall.co.uk/about/ |access-date=6 August 2020 |work=Pollokshaws Burgh Hall |publisher=Pollokshaws Burgh Hall Trust}}</ref>

[[File:Sir John Maxwell School, Pollokshaws, Glasgow. Scotland.jpg|thumb|Sir John Maxwell School (2019]]
Sir John Stirling Maxwell Primary School, located on Bengal Street / Christian Street, was a standalone red sandstone building by architect John H Hamilton, completed in 1907. The site of the school was previously donated by local philanthropic landowner Sir John Stirling Maxwell, after whom it was named.<ref>[https://canmore.org.uk/site/160821/glasgow-30-bengal-street-sir-john-maxwell-primary-school Glasgow, 30 Bengal Street, Sir John Maxwell Primary School], Canmore</ref> The school was closed in June 2011 and despite local pressure and campaigns the building was allowed to rot and stood derelict for some years.<ref>[https://www.sirjohnmaxwellschool.com/ Save Sir John Maxwell School]. Retrieved 16 November 2021</ref><ref>[https://sghet.com/project/sir-john-maxwell-school/ Project. Sir John Maxwell School]. South Glasgow Heritage Environment Trust. Retrieved 16 November 2021 </ref> It was demolished in 2023 after being deemed structurally unsafe beyond repair, with the council promising to save and re-use some of its features in a future project.<ref>[https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/historic-glasgow-school-demolished-after-27534405.amp Historic Glasgow school demolished after it was declared 'structurally unsafe'], Kieran Fleming, Glasgow Live, 17 August 2023</ref>

Pollokshaws Clock Tower, located on Pleasance Street, is the surviving part of the old Town House, built in 1803. There was a ground-floor school with a court-room and a police cell above it. From 1818, the Town House building also housed a library. 
The Pollokshaws Burgh Charter empowered the council to hold courts for the trial both of civil actions and criminal offences. A jail to incarcerate local wrongdoers was built in 1845. After the 1912 annexation of Pollokshaws Burgh to the City of Glasgow, most of the Town House was demolished and only a public campaign managed to save the remaining Clock Tower.<ref>[https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/lifestyle/13508679.memories-pollokshaws-clock-tower-in-1973/ Memories: Pollokshaws clock tower in 1973], Glasgow Evening Times. Retrieved 16 November 2021</ref>

[[File:Toll house, Pollokshaws - geograph.org.uk - 3413436.jpg|thumb|Round Toll on roundabout]]
The Round Toll is a circular building now located on the central island of the roundabout of the same name (junction of B762 Barrhead Road / Nether Auldhouse Road and B769 Pollokshaws Road / Thornliebank Road). Built around 1820 as a tollbooth, it is the only surviving example of this type of building in the area, others having been lost to road development, and a rare example of an older building in Pollokshaws following 20th century [[Slum clearance in the United Kingdom|slum clearance]] and redevelopment. It is now Category B listed. Following the abolition of road tolls in the 1880s it served as a carriage hire premises, a pub, and latterly as a private house up until the 1950s. It was subsequently used for council storage but is now vacant and isolated on the roundabout.<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB33915|desc=1 BARRHEAD ROAD, JUNCTION WITH POLLOKSHAWS ROAD AND NETHER AULDHOUSE ROAD, TOLL HOUSE FORMERLY 1 CROSS STREET|cat=B|access-date=6 August 2020}}</ref>