255 Parliamentary Road, Townhead, Glasgow stood for a number of centuries until it was demolished in the 1960s to make way for ‘improvement works’. It was one of Glasgow’s original Toll Houses and ‘witnessed’ urban ‘creep’.
1807 map: The Toll house is where the red line crosses Dobbies road:
1826 map: The Tollhouse is at the junction with yellow and pink lines [Note the ‘Proposed’ new raod]
At this time, the tollkeeper was:
1844 map: Parliament[ary] Road is now in existence:
1855 Postal Index [the tollkeeper is now James Hamilton]:
27 January 1855, Glasgow Gazette: James Hamilton is assaulted:
1859 Postal Index:
1860 Ordnance Survey map [The toll house is on the sharp corner with the rounded wall facing the junction]:
1861 census: The Tollhouse is now occupied by John Reid, Police Lieutenant and his young family:
1865 Ordnance Survey map:
May 1867: Birth of Samuel Haining Reid:
July 1867:
November 1867: Death of of Samuel Haining Reid:
1873 Postal Index:
10 April 1899, Glasgow Evening Citizen:
1891 Postal Index:
23 July 1919, Press and Journal:
