Adams Shop – was a former mid 20th Century shop located on the north side of Glasgow Road at Harts Land. During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s the shop consisted of two shops, either side of a common close. One side was a drapers’ shop, the other sold furniture. The address of the […]
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Harts Land, Glasgow Road
Harts Land started off as a vacant field, indeed there is no evidence that anything at all existed at its location prior to the 1870’s. In 1875, William and Thomas Hart (brothers) bought this land, which was adjacent to Glasgow Road. It was fenced off in a large square, marking their boundaries and they […]
The Central Bar – Glasgow Road
The Central Bar was not always a pub. When it was originally built in the early 1870’s on Glasgow Road, the two storey tenemental stone property was part of a series of buildings called Hart’s Laun or Land (although may have adopted the local dialect, Herts Laun). Harts’ Laun was not only the tenements on […]