Queenslie
Encyclopedia
Queenslie is a district
in the Scottish
city of Glasgow
. It is situated just to the east of Cranhill
and west of Wellhouse and Easterhouse
.
Modern Queenslie started as an industrial estate in the 1950's with housing added a short time later. The area was once farmland, built mainly on te Queenslie Farm. In the William Roy map (1747-1755) the farm and general area was spelled as Quinsley which latterly evolved into Queenslie. There are four main streets running through Queenslie, Horndean Crescent, Penston Road, Lonmay Road and Blairtummock Road.
Queenslie is separated from Garthamlock by the M8 motorway, Blairtummock Road which runs through the industrial estate before reaching Cranhill (to the west) and Wellhouse (to the east) at the other end.
At its peak in the 1960s and 1970s Queenslie was a vibrant scheme with a very close knit community. From the early 1980s onwards the area, like many working class estates across Glasgow, went into a downward spiral and unfortunately never recovered. The housing was demolished and the industrial estate expanded.
District
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in the Scottish
Scotland
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city of Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
. It is situated just to the east of Cranhill
Cranhill
Cranhill is a housing estate in the east end of Glasgow.-History:Like many similar publicly-funded 'schemes', it was built in the early 1950s on the outskirts of the city to alleviate the post-war housing shortage...
and west of Wellhouse and Easterhouse
Easterhouse
Easterhouse is a suburb about east of Glasgow city centre, Scotland. It was partially built on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of a boundary expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War. Building began in the mid-1950s by the then local authority, Glasgow Corporation...
.
Modern Queenslie started as an industrial estate in the 1950's with housing added a short time later. The area was once farmland, built mainly on te Queenslie Farm. In the William Roy map (1747-1755) the farm and general area was spelled as Quinsley which latterly evolved into Queenslie. There are four main streets running through Queenslie, Horndean Crescent, Penston Road, Lonmay Road and Blairtummock Road.
Queenslie is separated from Garthamlock by the M8 motorway, Blairtummock Road which runs through the industrial estate before reaching Cranhill (to the west) and Wellhouse (to the east) at the other end.
At its peak in the 1960s and 1970s Queenslie was a vibrant scheme with a very close knit community. From the early 1980s onwards the area, like many working class estates across Glasgow, went into a downward spiral and unfortunately never recovered. The housing was demolished and the industrial estate expanded.