Dalmarnock

Dalmarnock (Scottish Gaelic: Dail Mheàrnaig) is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde. It is bounded by the Clyde to the south and east, Parkhead to the north, and Bridgeton at Dunn Street to the north west. The area covers part of a loop in the River Clyde called the Cuningar Loop (known locally as 'The Vallies').

There is a bridge over the River Clyde on Dalmarnock Road called Dalmarnock Bridge. The first bridge in the area was a wooden one erected in 1821 to connect Rutherglen and Dalmarnock. It was replaced by a new timber bridge in 1841 and in 1891 by the current Dalmarnock Bridge, designed by the engineers Crouch & Hogg.

The area was once heavily industrialised. Sir William Arrol & Co. had its extensive engineering works at Dunn Street and Baltic Street from 1873. From its beginnings in boiler making, the firm later became renowned for its achievements in the field of Structural engineering. Amongst the many bridges constructed throughout Britain were the Forth Railway Bridge and Forth Road Bridge, the Humber Bridge and London's Tower Bridge. The company was eventually bought over by Clarke Chapman in 1969 and the Dalmarnock Works closed in 1986. There was also a large coal fired power station located near Dalmarnock Bridge. It was built by Glasgow Corporation in two stages, with phase one opening in 1920 and phase two in 1926. It was closed in 1977 by the South of Scotland Electricity Board.

Victorian sandstone tenements in Ardenlea Street, Dalmarnock that were originally renovated as part of the GEAR (Glasgow East Area Renewal) scheme in the late 1970s, have seen their residents systematically rehoused in recent years, thus being allowed to fall into a dilapidated state once more. They are now planned to be totally demolished as part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games athletes village masterplan by RMJM.

The east side of Summerfield Street was bombed during the Second World War. Most of the Victorian red-sandstone tenements on Dalmarnock Road and Springfield Road were demolished in the '60s and early '70s, although many were also renovated. Springfield Road remains the centre of the community, with several retailers and small businesses. In the 1960s, a new housing scheme was also built, comprising of four twenty-two storey tower blocks and 'H-block' maisionettes. Two of the towers, 40 & 50 Millerfield Road, were demolished in 2002. One other tower was demolished on 1 July 2007, and the final one on 9 September 2007.

Dalmarnock railway station, on the Argyle Line, serves the local area.

The area used to have five schools: Springfield Road Primary, Springfield Primary, Riverside Secondary and Our Lady of Fatima RC Primary School on Springfield Road (corner of Millerfield Road) have now closed. Dalmarnock Primary School is the only one that remains and was opened by the School Board of Glasgow in Albany Street in 1893. It was a typical School Board of Glasgow red sandstone school, designed by Robert A Bryden. The original red-sandstone school building was replaced by a new-build structure constructed alongside in 2007.

Dalmarnock is the proposed location for the athletes' village when Glasgow hosts the 2014 Commonwealth Games^[1] and proposed skyscraper East One.

Notable people

• Professional footballer Kenny Dalglish who played for Celtic F.C. and Liverpool was born in Dalmarnock.
• George Chisholm, trombonist, was born in Dalmarnock.
• Glasvegas

References

Coordinates: 55°50′N 4°13′W / 55.833°N 4.217°W / 55.833; -4.217

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