- of
successful companies,
Crofthead Mill was once the
biggest producer of spun
cotton in Renfrewshire.
Thread from
Crofthead, and thus Neilston, was traded...
-
Greenburn Pit (iron ore).
Crofthead Quarry and
mines (sandstone and iron ore),
below the area now
marked by
Quarry road.
Crofthead also
included a
brick works...
- £150,000. It was to run from a
terminal on the
south side of
Glasgow to
Crofthead, near Neilston. The
location was the
centre of
several local industries...
-
Crofthead railway station or
Fauldhouse and
Crofthead was a
station on the Wilsontown,
Morningside and
Coltness Railway (WM&CR) that
served the area of...
- the
Gothic Revival style. It is
located between Upper Bridge Street and
Crofthead Road to the
north of the city centre. It is a
category B
listed building...
- In 1792 a
cotton mill was
constructed by
James Orr at
Crofthead below Neilston and
Crofthead House was
built in the 1830s,
demolished and
replaced by...
- Annan,
where her
mother had sent her to run an errand. Upon
reaching Crofthead Wood,
Smith took Scott's money,
raped her and then
strangled her to death...
- area had
improved with the
discovery of
blackband ironstone,
known as
Crofthead. Two
Longridge railway stations briefly served the
village in the mid...
- Act 1853 16 & 17 Vict. c.
cxlviii 4
August 1853
Caledonian Railway (
Crofthead Extension and Amendment) Act 1853 16 & 17 Vict. c.
cxlix 4
August 1853...
- Sir
James Bain of
Crofthead (1817–1898) was a
Scottish iron-founder who
served as Lord
Provost of
Glasgow from 1874 to 1877. Bain
Street in
Glasgow is...
