Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society
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Here to connect with other family historians, genealogists, and people with a passion for Glasgow's past. Drop in to our Glasgow West End research centre or visit us online! Registered Scottish charity. gwsfhs.org.uk
![This picture shows the (rather faded) Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom as used in Scotland. The image can be seen above the River Nile corner shop at 27 Paisley Road West, premises owned in 1913/14 by the Trustees of the Savings Bank of Glasgow. Although the dark wooden panelling of the original bank has long disappeared, one of our members can remember being taken there by her mother, with the counter too high for the wee girl to see over. The building is Category B Listed, and the heraldic device is described as “Ornate heraldic corner piece above bank front at 1st floor, comprising lion and unicorn flanking shield, painted gilded.”
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![Glasgow, in this respect, occupies a bad pre-eminence. Eighteen per cent, of the mothers there are in bad and 36 per cent, in poor health. Dundee shows more in bad health but also more in good health. Those in Classes II. and III. in Dundee were miserable women, hopeless and depressed, as well as physically unfit. The mill-work, child-bearing and year after year of low earnings and bad housing make the lot of the women hard and the drunkenness and riotous ways of the town increase these ills. In Edinburgh, the standard of health was higher than elsewhere, probably because with incomes about equal to those in Glasgow there is less struggle to keep up a good appearance and so more money spent on food and less anxiety on the mother's part to keep the ohildren " looking respectable."
Report to the royal commission on the poor laws and relief of distress on the condition of the children who are in receipt of the various forms of poor law relief in certain parishes in Scotland, appendix, vol. xxxiii, pt. 1, p. 17 [Cd. 5075], H.C. 1910, lii, 45.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nobtfwgdyc2l4wmddfuums6i/bafkreiemg5dvpjqyxpcadlombee7rokuc3nhs2zwxqghmciscubnh4ugu4)
![In the early medieval period, the ancient province of Flanders in northern Belgium was the economic powerhouse of Europe and the principal outlet for Scotland's major export of wool for the Flemish weaving industry. Bruges, the provincial capital of West Flanders, was the first Scottish Staple port, with a valuable monopoly on importing, storing and trading Scottish goods, and the city still has a historic wharf – the Schottendyk – formerly used by the Scottish merchants.
The importance of Bruges diminished as the harbour silted up, to be replaced ultimately by Rotterdam, but we continue to be reminded of our connections with the city by the crow step or 'corbie' gables seen in buildings across Scotland and by surnames such as Fleming, Lindsay and Douglas, all familiex believed to have Flemish ancestors in their bloodlines.
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![A place of worship has stood at Shiskine in Arran for centuries. A church, dedicated to St Michael, was erected in 1708 on or near the site of an older building, incorporating features which had probably been taken from a medieval chapel, including a window carved out of a single block of stone, and a 'Leper's Hole' where those afflicted with that terrible disease could still take the sacraments.
By 1886, the old 'preaching house' was leaking. A new building was erected down the valley and the church was left to deteriorate, to the point of becoming a roofless shell. It was bought by the Shiskine Valley Trust in 2004 but despite restoration fund-raising by local people, the building was deemed in a dangerous condition and the Trustees proposed demolition. A group of determined folk, led by a local farmer, decided otherwise and restoration work commenced in 2010. Today, the work completed, the walls have been rebuilt and capped and the wooden lintels replaced – even the leper's window can be seen again.
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![A place of worship has stood at Shiskine in Arran for centuries. A church, dedicated to St Michael, was erected in 1708 on or near the site of an older building, incorporating features which had probably been taken from a medieval chapel, including a window carved out of a single block of stone, and a 'Leper's Hole' where those afflicted with that terrible disease could still take the sacraments.
By 1886, the old 'preaching house' was leaking. A new building was erected down the valley and the church was left to deteriorate, to the point of becoming a roofless shell. It was bought by the Shiskine Valley Trust in 2004 but despite restoration fund-raising by local people, the building was deemed in a dangerous condition and the Trustees proposed demolition. A group of determined folk, led by a local farmer, decided otherwise and restoration work commenced in 2010. Today, the work completed, the walls have been rebuilt and capped and the wooden lintels replaced – even the leper's window can be seen again.
[Images: Paul Burns]
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![Glasgow, in this respect, occupies a bad pre-eminence. Eighteen per cent, of the mothers there are in bad and 36 per cent, in poor health. Dundee shows more in bad health but also more in good health. Those in Classes II. and III. in Dundee were miserable women, hopeless and depressed, as well as physically unfit. The mill-work, child-bearing and year after year of low earnings and bad housing make the lot of the women hard and the drunkenness and riotous ways of the town increase these ills. In Edinburgh, the standard of health was higher than elsewhere, probably because with incomes about equal to those in Glasgow there is less struggle to keep up a good appearance and so more money spent on food and less anxiety on the mother's part to keep the ohildren " looking respectable."
Report to the royal commission on the poor laws and relief of distress on the condition of the children who are in receipt of the various forms of poor law relief in certain parishes in Scotland, appendix, vol. xxxiii, pt. 1, p. 17 [Cd. 5075], H.C. 1910, lii, 45.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nobtfwgdyc2l4wmddfuums6i/bafkreiaubbpmzaxcablbv7fabcrqhbwmce66fhty6qynwmx3wuvup6owky)
