greater easterhouse pathfinder

Please go to the new East Glasgow Pathfinder website for latest information about the area. This website will only be kept as a legacy webebsite until further notice, but all updates will be made on the live East Glasgow Pathfinder from the 3/7/2008.

Lochend Family Learning

Topics A - Z

CS=Case Study

Villages and Farms of the Easterhouse Area

Eastrehouse villa

Webpage link	Description	Task
www.old-maps.co.uk/	Historic map from 1864.	Type in Easterhouse in the box on the left hand side and click search. You will get a map of the area from 1864. Can you find the different coal mines?
www.ltscotland.org.uk/ scottishhistory/nls/ maps/glasgow.asp	Map of Glasgow 1895.	Find your area of Glasgow by moving the red rectangle around. Click underneath the map for videos of the curator and teacher discussing the map of Glasgow.
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ minstr/minstrcontents.html	The origin and history of Glasgow Street names from Glasgow Digital Library	Discover the history of a Glasgow street name you know.
www.glasgowhistory.co.uk/ StatisticalAccount.htm	Taken from "The Statistical Account of Scotland." Sir John Sinclair in 1794.	Read the description of Glasgow life. How many people lived in the villages in the east end of Glasgow?
www.victoriantimes.org/ixbin/ hixclient.exe?_IXSESSION_= waBdFoS1a43&_IXSR_= &_IXSP_=42&_MREF_= 29155&_IXACTION_= display&_IXSPFX_=s ch_bq_&_IXFPFX_=sch_bq_	Historic photographs of farming people, their work and where they lived.	Compare the photographs Pre War and Post War. How did things change?
www.bbc.co.uk/education/ dynamo/history/stepback.htm For younger children. Interactive.	Houses	Step back in time to 1900 and see what the houses were like inside.
www.monklands.co.uk/ monklands/timeline.htm	A timeline of transport links and industry in the Old Monklands area.	When did work start on the Monklands Canal?

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