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Easterhouse is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, 6 miles (10 km) east of the city centre on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of an expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War. The area is on high ground north of the River Clyde and south of the River Kelvin and Campsie Fells.
Jun 4, 2024 · The original village of Easterhouse was built in the late 19th century around where the Easterhouse Railway Station now stands, the edges of the small village bounded in the North and South by the Monkland Canal.
Nov 14, 2016 · Built in the 1950s as part of the ambitious post-war slum clearances that so radically transformed the social and physical character of the city, it has experienced many of the problems that...
Apr 28, 2024 · Easterhouse is a suburb to the east of Glasgow city centre which was built on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire after the Second World War as part of the expansion of Glasgow.
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Bishop Loch is visible in the top right corner, with Gartloch Hospital to the left of it. Below the loch lies Easterhouse, originally a village but developed as a major housing estate by Glasgow Corporation during the 1950s. Open fields separate Easterhouse from Provanhall to the west.
Mar 20, 2016 · It was the place that was said to have inspired Iain Duncan Smith's compassionate conservative epiphany, but after six years of the Tories at the helm, and after a historic referendum and an SNP...
Easterhouse was one of the 'big four' housing estates built within Glasgow's city limits. Like Drumchapel, Pollok and Castlemilk, it was a tenemental housing scheme to accomodate people displaced by the slum clearances of the inner city.
