Records of the Burgh of Kinning Park

The collection includes: Minutes, 1871 - 1905 (H-KPK1); register of committee members, 1897 - 1905 (H-KPK1/12/3); register of bonds, 1894 - 1905 (H-KPK2/8); memorials and opinions, 1876 - 1886 (H-KPK2/2); registers of roads and streets, 1880 - 1894 (H-KPK2/6); registers of licences, 1873 - 1905 (H-KPK2/4-5); Town Clerk’s letter books, 1871 - 1905 (H-KPK3); financial records, 1871 - 1905 (H-KPK4); Police pay books 1892 - 1905 (H-KPK4/7); and administrative papers relating to utilities, building applications, elections, etc 1871 - 1905 (H-KPK5).

Many of the volumes have labels with numbers on which presumably indicated the original order in which they were stored. These numbers are in the notes field of the relevant entries.

In 1871, Kinning Park was granted the status of an independent police burgh with its own elected council. By 1870 Kinning Park had a population of around 6,000 and by 1905 it was 14,000, working mainly in the community's many engineering and boilermaking workshops or in Gray Dunn & Co's biscuit factory.

In 1905 Kinning Park lost its independent status and was absorbed into Glasgow.

[Source: The Glasgow Story http://www.theglasgowstory.com/story/?id=TGSDG08]

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Glasgow City Archives, D-HE2/7, Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary Inspector of the Burgh of Kinning Park