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What do you know about Shawlands?
Shawlands is an inner suburb of Glasgow, which like many similar areas in the city, grew up as a direct response to improved tram links to the city centre, and the need for working/middle class housing prompted by the city's growth in population and economy.
An 18th Century painting shows Shawlands as completely undeveloped, save for a solitary cottage at the Cross (the meeting place of Pollokshaws Road and Kilmarnock Road, and not as is sometimes assumed, the junction of Langside Avenue/Minard Road and Pollokshaws Road).
This would change dramatically within the next century.
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- Kenmure Street
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5 bedroom Flat
Pollokshields, £1,100
- Devol Crescent
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2 bedroom Flat
Pollok, £450
- Crofthill Road
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3 bedroom Flat
Croftfoot, £475
- Newlands Road
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Cathcart, £300
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Local properties from s1homes.com
- Hazel Avenue
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1 bedroom Flat
Muirend, £120,000
- Maybank Street
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2 bedroom Flat
Queens Park, £142,500
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2 bedroom Flat
Pollokshields, £130,000
- Bogton Avenue
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3 bedroom Terraced
Muirend, £219,000
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