As you leave Queens Park, you go past the Langside estate on Langside Avenue, shown in this photo:
This estate was built on the site of a row of villas, one of which - Holmwood (82 Langside Avenue) - was the home of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's father in the 1890s, and Charles himself lived there 1892-5.
you then go onto Deanston Drive, here's an aerial view (Tantallon to left, Deanston to right):
On the right as you enter Deanston Drive is St Helens Catholic Church. (1897, John Bennie Wilson).
Cathcart Cemetery: buried here are ?
1991 aerial view:
Halfpenny Bridge (Linn Park) c 1835. Oldest complete iron bridge in Glasgow, built as driveway to Linn House.
Linn House was built c 1828, enlarged 1852 by Charles Wilson:
From the trig point you descend through the woods around the back of Linn Crematorium, (1962, T S Cordiner) "A Beaux Arts-influenced modernist complex"
Up to Cathkin Braes: (this 2014 photo shows the site of the Commonwealth Games mountain biking event)
Castlemilk estate was the biggest property in the parish of Carmunnock. The estate, which was in the Stuart family from the 13th century, was sold to the City in 1938 for one of the huge peripheral housing estates built after 1954. Castlemilk House, which dated back to the late medieval period but had been greatly altered and extended from the 18th century, was later demolished. This 1969 photo is taken from the fishpond :
The Stables for the house (built c.1800) were Converted 2006,into offices for Housing Association. The Gothic single-arch bridge (visble in the photo) was remodelled 1833, probably David Hamilton. The Burn, known downstream in 19th-century Burnside as the Citiford, fed the reservoir of the Burnside Weaving Factory, then became the West Burn before merging with Malls Myre Burn to discharge into the Clyde as the Polmadie Burn.
Kings Park House:
Known as Aikenhead House, this was built in 1806, for John Gordon, a Glasgow merchant in the West India trade.
The mansion sits in a hollow among several small drumlins perched on the steep slope rising from Polmadie through King's Park, a fine Corinthian porch on west front. Deep one-and-a-half-storey wings, protected by giant pilasters, added 1823, David Hamilton. Converted to flats 1985. To the south are the : Early 19th-century brick-built walled gardens. Massive 1885 mannerist two-tier ashlar sundial, on elaborate base with a tall obelisk finial. (a reproduction of the 1635 Newbattle sundial. Plus a Stable block,
In this aerial view, the Checkpoint is just out of shot up the hill to the left of the House:
Court Knowe (CHECKPOINT)
Cathcart Castle (CHECKPOINT). 15th Century, demolished 1980.
Here it is in 1941 from the other direction:
And here's a 1889 photo of Cathcart House (which stood in Linn Park, you can still see the flat grassy site) and the Castle:
Just off the route is the Snuff Mill, bridge and Lindsay House, seen in this aerial view:
Lindsay Tenement built 1863, his initials are carved above the door.
The B listed Holm Foundry buildings in Newlands Road, Cathcart, built in 1912 to designs purchased from Albert Kahn's Trussed Concrete Steel Co in the USA. Kahn's design was previously used for the Packhard Automoblile Co number 10 factory, Detroit.
The firm of G. & J. Weir built the Holm Foundry on the site of an old steading, primarily to produce a range of marine auxiliary machinery, including the world-famous Weir boiler feed pump. During the First World War the company expanded the complex, and made more aircraft than any other Scottish firm.
Nearby is the former Wallace-Scott Tailoring Institute 1912. (later Electricity Board, now flats):
(depending on your route choice!)
you may go past Millbrae Crescent. 1876-7, built by Robert Turnbull, the partner of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson. Long crescent of houses, essentially 'Greek' Thomson in style, with Greek and Egyptian details. Then as you go up Millbrae Road, you pass the old Miller's Cottage on your left (there were once 2 mills here, a paper mill and a meal mill.
The checkpoint (ie Mansionhouse Gardens) is on the site of Langside House (Robert Adam, 1777, demolished in the 1950s)
Rawcliffe (1862) at 29 Mansionhouse Road is the area's grandest house. Built as a private house, it was later a Carmelite Convent from 1919 to 2007 and is now flats. Next door at No 27 is another villa that was the Boswell Hotel. Next door again, at No 25, is the Greek Thomson designed double villa, two houses built back to back (1856-7)
Then past the Langside Battlefield Monument, Battle Place, 1887, Alexander Skirving. This commemorates the Battle of Langside (13 May 1568) which was the final defeat for Mary Queen of Scots at the hands of the Regent, Earl of Moray (regent to the infant James VI).
And the Langside Hill (Free) Church (now the Church on the Hill pub) 1896, Alexander Skirving
Greek Ionic temple above entrance porch, in a 'Greek' Thomson-like composition. Skirving had been Alexander Thomson's chief draughtsman. Converted to restaurant and bar, 1990s.
Just below the monument is the old Victoria Infirmary, now being converted to flats:
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