I have taken every opportunity to acknowledge source and copyright where appropriate. If anyone considers that that there is a copyright, or personal privacy violation, please tell me

I thank all those who have donated photo's and I have indicated that against each such photo.

You may like to know that there are 'official' photo's that were taken at the time Cambuslang was being redeveloped in the early sixties. These are recognisable by having a street plan attached. I remember these as coloured photos which were displayed briefly at that time on large notice boards at strategic points throughout the area. The boards showed 'before and after' illustrations. examples are on the area redevelopment page. At that time Cambuslang was politically the 8th District Council of Lanarkshire. Since then it has merged with, then eventually left Glasgow administration. It would be interesting to know the current whereabouts of the these photo's. I suspect a storage area somewhere in the Hamilton area. If anyone knows...!

Others were copied from a selection of books that I bought over the years and the details are below.

  1. 'Old Cambuslang' published 1977 by Ian L Cormack ISBN 0 9505862 0 X . Original published price 50p.
  2. 'More Old Cambuslang' published 1982 by Ian L Cormack ISBN 0 9505862 6 9. Original published price £1.
  3. 'Cambuslang In Old Picture Postcards' published 1984 by Ian L Cormack ISBN 90 288 2884 2 (hardback)
  4. 'Around Old Cambuslang' published 1993 by Ian L Cormack ISBN0 9595862 8 5
  5. 'Old Cambuslang at the turn of the century' by Doreen Shepherd. ISBN 09526372 0 0. Original published price £4.65
  6. 'Old Cambuslang' by Rhona Wilson ISBN 1872074790.Original published price £6.95. This is published (and still available) by Richard Stenlake Publishing, Ochiltree Sawmill, The Lade, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, KA18 2NX, Tel 01290 423114.

I am also grateful to the staff of Halfway and Cambuslang Libraries for their kind and enthusiastic help. I also thank the many others who donated individual photo's from their own collection. There is much more information held in each library including old maps, histories (even going back to pre dinosaur days) and reminiscences recorded by individuals describing local life and work in the early part of the the twentieth century. 

However, I have found that, over time, such valuable historic articles 'disappear' never to be found again. So this site will help to retain some of those memories.