Albert Drive, Pollokshields (geograph 4671036)

Pollokshields East was a

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in Scotland that had a brief independent existence in the 19th century. The burgh was created within the

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parish in the county of

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in 1880. Bartholomew's ''Gazetteer of the British Isles'' (1887) states that Pollokshields East had a population of 4,360. Along with the neighbouring burgh of

Pollokshields Pollokshields ( gd, Buthan Phollaig, Scots: ''Powkshiels'') is an area in the Southside of Glasgow, Scotland. Its modern boundaries are largely man-made, being formed by the M77 motorway to the west and northwest with the open land of Pollok C ...

, it was officially absorbed into the city of

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in 1891, the two burghs being induced to agree by the promise of taxation concessions. Unlike its neighbour, where development was restricted by feu to residential villas, Pollokshields East was a more working class area with commercial and industrial developments. Land use in modern Pollokshields still reflects the different histories of the two former burghs.

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