499 Glasgow Road, Wishaw - where was it?

[Lodger]

Spot on with the map Sancti, where the word "Sunnyside" is written will now be the hospital grounds and Berryhill Rows are now King George V park. I reckon the little building on its own, to the left of the word "chapel" will be Sunnyside cottage.

[sancti]

The same area c1910

https://maps.nls.uk/view/82893072

[Justjimmy]

499 Glasgow Road was where the orange hall sits now. I will try and post a photo of the orange hall to the left of it behind the bushes was small cottages and to the right of it the tenements.

[Justjimmy]

That map shows you where 499 Glasgow Road was. Roughly the centre of that photo.

[Justjimmy]

499 Glasgow Rd was the first wee single story building between the Cottage and the Tenaments. I've marked where it is in this photo. The server would appear to be down so I only have this rather poor quality photo of the old buildings.

[Ian999]

Mostly Off Topic, but this takes me back a long time.
Between the ages of 4 and 5 I lived at 246 Glasgow Rd (I think that is the number) in Wishaw and the house was nestled in the triangle between Glasgow Road and the railroad embankment.
On the other side of the embankment, where the hospital is now, I went to the primary school that was between the embankment and the soccer fields.
The kids all had slates and a nub of chalk to write with. We were all poor, some kids came to school barefoot even in the Winter. Life is better now.

[Justjimmy]

If you were across the road from the Sunnyside row of tenements your house would have had an odd number. The wee house your talking about was 275 Glasgow Road. 246 would have been up at the Heathery bar up at the roundabout. The school was Berryhill Primary. The wee shop next to it was Alex Weir’s (the penny tray lol) Just behind that house at the bottom of the railway embankment was a wee burn with newts in it. Behind the school was the bing, behind the bing were three ponds. I think we called them the Canyon, the Fraser and the Captain. Was my playground back then. I know that area very well.

[Ian999]

Justjimmy, I suspect that you are correct. I know that I saw the 246 number in a document connected to my maternal grandfather William Fairbairn, but in a quick look through my files I cannot find it just now. However I did find a map with a “275??” on it so I presume you are right.

In 2008 I spent 4 weeks doing a photo-shoot around Scotland for my one and only return visit. I specifically went to Wishaw to find the old house, but it was gone! A petrol station had been built over it and then partially torn down, such is progress. And now via Google Earth I see that culture has come to Wishaw; a KFC is operating on Glasgow Road. There used to be 3 houses between the KFC and the railway bridge with my grandfather’s house being the one next to the bridge. In 2008 I wrote to a Fairbairn living in Wishaw but never got any response.

My other lasting memory of the place was a very large pot outside the front door. Each morning the contents of the chamber pots were poured into this large pot. My job was every week to scoop up some of the contents and pour it over the vegetable patch in the back garden! Memories that linger!! Still, John Higgins compensates for most of it.