Editing Cardonald (section)

==History==
In the 15th century the lands of Cardonald in [[Renfrew]] were the property of Johannes Norwald or Normanville, Dominus of Cardownalde. His granddaughter and heiress, Marion Stewart (daughter of Isabella Norwald of Cardonald and Sir William Stewart of Castlemilk), married Allan Stewart, establishing the line of Stewarts of Cardonald.<ref>Innes, John. (1993). ''Old Cardonald Had A Farm''. Glasgow City Libraries & Archives. p.6.</ref> The Cardonald Stewarts were a junior branch of the [[House of Stewart]]. Allan Stewart of Cardonald, the first Stewart of Cardonald, was the younger son of [[John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox]]. The Cardonald Stewarts had their seat at the ''Place of Cardonald'' (also known as Cardonald Castle or Cardonald House), built in 1565. It was demolished and replaced by a farmhouse – [[Cardonald Place Farm]] – in 1848. A corn mill existed in Cardonald from around 1789 until it was demolished in 1958. The site of Cardonald Mill is now occupied by the houses on Lade Terrace.

The line of the Stewarts of Cardonald ended with Allan's great-grandson, [[James Stewart of Cardonald]] (1512–1584). He had served as a captain in the Scottish Guards of the [[King of France|Kings of France]], and is buried in [[Paisley Abbey]].<ref>Innes, John. (1993). ''Old Cardonald Had A Farm''. Glasgow City Libraries & Archives. p.7.</ref> As he had no issue, the lands of Cardonald passed to his sister's son, [[Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre]]. His family resided at the Place of Cardonald for generations, and retained lands in Cardonald until the 20th century.<ref>Innes, John. (1993). ''Old Cardonald Had A Farm''. Glasgow City Libraries & Archives. p.9.</ref> With the death of the 12th Lord Blantyre in 1900, his estates passed to his grandson, William Arthur Baird.

[[File:Highrise flats in Cardonald in 2009.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Highrise flats in Cardonald (2009)]]
The transformation of Cardonald from a rural to an urban community was largely brought about by the coming of the [[railway]] and the [[tram]] in the 19th century. The first railway to reach Cardonald was the [[Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway]], with a station (then known as Moss Road station) opening on Berryknowes Road in 1843.<ref>Innes, John. (1993). ''Old Cardonald Had A Farm''. Glasgow City Libraries & Archives. p.11.</ref> However, due to poor traffic returns, this station was closed in 1845. In 1879, the present day [[Cardonald railway station]] opened on the same site.<ref>Butt, R.V.J. (1995). ''The Directory of Railway Stations''. Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford. p.164.</ref><ref>Innes, John. (1993). ''Old Cardonald Had A Farm''. Glasgow City Libraries & Archives. p.35.</ref> The siting of this station influenced the building of the terrace of houses at Hillington Park Circus and the large country houses of Dalveon and Turnberry on Berryknowes Road, along with the terraced houses in Kingsland and Queensland Drive.<ref>Innes, John. (1993). ''Old Cardonald Had A Farm''. Glasgow City Libraries & Archives. p.11.</ref> There was also the lodge house on Berryknowes road next to Dalveon house which was part of the estate (now Craigton cemetery) that contained Cruickston Hall (now the site of the new Lourdes Primary School) and Craigton House.

[[File:Muirdrum Avenue (geograph 4651344).jpg|thumb|Muirdrum Avenue, South Cardonald (2015)]]
With the arrival of the electric tram in 1903, the growth of Cardonald began in earnest along the stretch of Paisley Road West between the villages of Cardonald and Halfway, with the building of Cardonald Police station (1905) and Nazareth House (1906). In 1926, [[Glasgow Corporation#City Council|Glasgow Corporation]] bought the Cardonald estates from William Arthur Baird. The final upsurge in house building in the area took place from 1931, when most of the existing farm land disappeared, with the building of the North Cardonald and South Cardonald houses by the ''Western Heritable Investment Company'' after 1935. North Cardonald was mostly made up of owner-occupied houses and council homes owned by Glasgow Corporation (the predecessor to Glasgow City Council), while South Cardonald was mostly composed of owner-occupied and privately rented cottage flats. The 1930s also saw the building of two cinemas in the area, The Westway (1934–1960) and the Aldwych/Vogue (1938–1964). The Westway later became the Flamingo ballroom, and was then a bingo hall until its demolition in 2003. The Vogue was demolished in 1964. Both have supermarkets in their place today.

In the 1950s, the Corporation erected the UK's first high-rise flats in the area. Although only 10 storeys high, the Moss Heights flats were the first of many high-rise blocks to be built in Glasgow.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/historyresearch/researchprojects/housingandwellbeing/mossheights/|title=Housing, Everyday Life & Wellbeing over the long term: Moss Heights|publisher=[[University of Glasgow]]|access-date=10 November 2018}}</ref> They were revolutionary in the fact that their heating system was supplied from a central coal-fired boiler house. They have been renovated and survive well into the 21st century, unlike other developments constructed in later decades.