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of Possilpark are references to industrial brilliance, scientific discovery, slavery and even outer space….Probably the earliest mention of the area is in the 13th century, when King Alexander II granted some land around Glasgow to the bishops that ruled it. This land included “Possele”.
Indeed, one member of the family – the magnificently named Mungo Nutter Campbell – served as the city’s Lord Provost between 1824 and 1825. He was a major enslaver who later claimed £61,393 for enslaved people in British Guiana – equivalent to £53 million today.As a result, the Campbell family were able to make improvements to the estate and its mansion house, Possil House, that had stood on the lands since around 1700.
All this was to change soon after. The land was bought by Walter Macfarlane & Co, the iron founders, who identified the site as a good location for its new ironworks, partly due to its proximity to the newly built railway. The population of Possilpark soared from around 150 in 1868 to more than 7000 just 20 years later, and Macfarlane laid out large parts of the estate as streets and housing to cater for the new arrivals.
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