Local history information sources
Updated 13 September 2026
♦ Find out about North Kelvin Heritage Group. See also our page About North Kelvin.
Physical/print
The Mitchell Library
Mitchell Library
North St
Glasgow G3 7DN
Family and Local History Centre, Level 5
Special Collections
Library collections, newspapers, maps, rare books and manuscripts
Open Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat 9–5; Tue, Thur 9–8
[email protected]
0141 287 2988
Facebook: The Mitchell Library
Glasgow City Archives
Public records, private archive collections
Open by appointment Tue 10–7; Wed, Thur, and first Saturday of the month 10–4
[email protected]
0141 287 2910
Facebook: Glasgow City Archives
Glasgow Museums
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums
Online
Glasgow Libraries
e-Resources (free, members only, some limits)
Virtual Mitchell: search on Queen Margaret Drive
Glasgow Story
Search on North Kelvin
National Library of Scotland
e-Resources (free, members only, some limits)
Plan of the lands and estate of Kelvinside and Gartnavel 1850
Compare maps side by side: if you hover your cursor over an area on the left-hand map a corresponding cursor on the right-hand map will show the place as it is today. You can change the maps viewed from the “2. Select a map series” on either side of the page, zoom in or out using the plus/minus at the left of each map, and drag the map to a different area.
1828–1912 Post Office Directories
Map taken from New plan of Glasgow with suburbs : from Ordnance and actual surveys, constructed for the post office directory / by John Bartholomew. Edinburgh, 1876. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland
Maryhill Burgh Halls
William B Black, The estates that made Maryhill, 28 Nov 2024
Glasgow West End Addresses (1836–1915)
http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/
Glasgow City Heritage Trust
https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/
Scottish Local History Forum
Historical Association
Glasgow and West of Scotland branch
Old Glasgow Club
Glasgow local history since 1900: http://www.oldglasgowclub.org.uk/
Glasgow Story Collective
Volunteer-run oral history group
Facebook page
A Street Near You
Website showing map of home locations of soldiers who died in the First World War, with family details where available.
Historic places/places of interest
Many of these websites include excellent summaries or timelines on the origins of North Kelvinside.
Architecture
The Sixty Steps. The website has an interesting local timeline.
River Kelvin and around
The Children’s Wood and North Kelvin Meadow
Water mills, eg North Woodside Flint Mill
Churches
Former Kelvin Stevenson Memorial Church (JJ Stevenson 1898)
St Charles Parish Church (Gillespie, Kidd and Coia 1959/60)
Mackintosh Church, Queens Cross (Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1899)
Some notable people
Arts and culture
Art
JD Fergusson
Plaque: 4 Clouston Street
Alice Strang, Beyond the Scottish Colourists: John Duncan Fergusson at 150
Alice Strang, Fergusson, Morris and the Arnotts
Alexander Goudie
Studio on Clouston Street. Wikipedia article
Florence Jamieson
Iona M.J. MacDonald, Ullapool artist’s posthumous recognition of talents as former ‘Glasgow Girls’ member
Anne Knox Arthur
Wikipedia article
Elspeth Lamb
Dryburgh Gardens. Wikipedia article
Ann Macbeth
Botanic Crescent. Wikipedia article
Robert MacNee RGI
Brave Fine Art article
Alexander Reid
Striven Gardens. Wikipedia article
Dance
Margaret Morris (also artist)
Plaque: 4 Clouston Street
Britannica article
Margaret Morris Movement
Literature
Professor Philip Hobsbaum
Hosted a writers’ group at Wilton Street. Obituary by Alasdair Gray. Wikipedia article
Acting
Stanley Baxter
Alastair MacKay, Stanley Baxter: Maw made me do it (2008 article)
BBC, Tributes to comedian Stanley Baxter after death aged 99
Politics
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, ‘Kelvinside House’
University of Glasgow article
Westminster Abbey article
Medicine
Louisa Jordan
Maryhill Burgh Halls blog, 15 Apr 2020
Military
Lieutenant John ‘Jock’ McCulloch Young
Plaque: 7 Jedburgh Gardens
British Military History biography (pdf download)
