Plantation, Glasgow

Plantation
Plantation
Plantation shown within Glasgow
OS grid reference NS570647
Council area
Lieutenancy area
  • Glasgow
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town GLASGOW
Postcode district G51
Dialling code 0141
Police Scottish
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
UK Parliament
Scottish Parliament

Plantation is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde and is part of the former Burgh of Govan.[1]

The 80-acre Craigiehall estate, previously three smaller properties, was bought in 1783 by John Robertson[2], a cashier in the Glasgow Arms Bank, who with his brothers owned cotton and sugar plantations in the West Indies. He renamed it Plantation.[3] It then, in 1793, passed to John Mair (d. 1867), a merchant who developed the building and gardens. Plantation passed to the Maclean family, The Macleans of Plantation, in 1829, in the person of William Maclean (1783-1867), a Glasgow Baillie[4].

In the years that followed, the estate was bisected by the railway to the south, with the shipbuilding yards of The Clyde Trust cutting off the estate from the river. Tenement housing was built and the house demolished in about 1900[5].

Plantation Quay formed part of the site for the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 and subsequent Glasgow Science Centre.[3]

Before demolition of the 19th century tenements in the 1970s, Plantation's streets included Lorne Street, MacLean Street, Blackburn Street, Plantation Street, Eaglesham Street, Mair Street, Craigiehall Street and Rutland Crescent; parts of Paisley Road West and Govan Road are also part of the district. The main primary school is Lorne Street Primary School. Other points of interest are the local Church of Scotland and Harper Memorial Baptist Church, named for John Harper the first pastor, who died in the Titanic disaster.


References

  1. ↑ "2nd Edition Ordnance Survey". 1893–94. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
  2. ↑ "John Robertson of Plantation". Legacies of British Slave-ownership. Retrieved 2 Jul 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Plantation (Craigiehall)". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  4. ↑ MacLean, William Donald (June 2017). "The Macleans of Plantation". Clan Maclean 2017 Gathering Souvenir Magazine: 28–29.
  5. ↑ MacLean, William Donald (June 2017). "The Macleans of Plantation". Clan Maclean 2017 Gathering Souvenir Magazine: 28–29.


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