Records of the Burgh of Hillhead

The collection includes: Minutes, 1869-1891 (H-HIL1); Letter books, 1867-1892 (H-HIL2); Financial records, 1870-1891 (H-HIL3); Dean of Guild Court records including registers of applications, 1869-1890, lining petitions and plans, 1869-1891 (H-HIL4 - not fully catalogued here); Police Court diet books and rules and regulations of the court, 1870-1871 (H-HIL5); Official lists and memoranda, 1872-1890 (H-HIL7); papers of the Clerk to the Commissioners, 1868-1891 (H-HIL8); annual reports of the Joint Hospital, 1888-1891 (H-HIL8/10); and Reports of committees and chief officers, 1886-1891 (H-HIL9).

There are papers relating to the transfer of papers to Glasgow following annexation at H-SHE4/31 including correspondence, a list of the burgh's workmen, details of officials and their salaries, receipt for minute books and a list of plans.

When Hillhead was first laid out for feuing in the 1820s, it was too remote from Glasgow to become a fashionable suburb. Only after the Great Western Road turnpike was opened in 1840 did Hillhead begin to attract a respectable number of developers and new residents.

By the 1860s, Hillhead's population had grown to over 3,000, but the protracted and haphazard nature of development had precluded the construction of any substantial infrastructure. Residents petitioned to have Hillhead incorporated as a Police Burgh with statutory responsibility for streets, drainage, lighting, cleansing, policing, fire protection and building control. Hillhead was granted burgh status in 1869 which it vigorously defended until finally annexed by Glasgow in 1891.

[Source: The Glasgow Story http://www.theglasgowstory.com/story/?id=TGSDG09]

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