Records of the Burgh of Partick

The collection includes: Minutes of the Police Commissioners (later the Town Council) and its committees, also containing reports by the Burgh Surveyor, Sanitary Inspector and Medical Officer of Health, 1852-1912 (H-PAR1/1-18); Minutes of Joint Bridges Committee concerning bridges over the Kelvin jointly owned by Glasgow and Partick, 1887-1912 (H-PAR1/19); Minutes of the Hospital Committee, 1904-1908 (H-PAR1/20); Committee reports and papers, 1851-1912 (H-PAR1/21); papers relating to parliamentary legislation, 1876-1912 (H-PAR1/22); Letter books of the Town Clerk and other officials, 1868-1913 (H-PAR2/1-3); Town Clerk's correspondence 1875-1912 (H-PAR2/4); correspondence relating to the Joint Hospital, c1880-1912 (H-PAR2/6); financial records, 1870-1912 (H-PAR3); bye-laws and official lists, 1875-1912 (H-PAR4); licensing records, 1893-1912 (H-PAR4/4); Burgh Surveyor's records 1894-1905 (H-PAR5); Registers of electors, 1901-1911 (H-PAR6/1); papers relating to elections, 1852-1905 (H-PAR6/3); papers of the Joint Hospital including minutes and accounts, 1874-1906 (H-PAR7); specifications for the Dust Destructor 1900 (H-PAR8); Press-cuttings books, 1874-1912 (H-PAR9); and Dean of Guild Court records, including registers of plans and petitions, 1875-1913 (H-PAR10 - not fully catalogued here).

With the establishment in the 1840s of Tod & MacGregor's Meadowside Shipyard at the mouth of the River Kelvin, Partick was transformed from a weaving village of 1,000 to an industrial community of 5,000 by 1850. People poured in looking for work from all over Scotland and from Ireland. Houses, streets, lighting, medical services and many other amenities, especially a sewage system, were required. To raise the necessary finances the village was declared a burgh in 1852.

After years of wrangling, Glasgow annexed the burgh in 1912, at which time the population was over 50,000. But by then Partick Commissioners had thoroughly modernised the burgh with new streets, houses, fine churches and schools. These were all incorporated into the Glasgow system.

[Source: The Glasgow Story http://www.theglasgowstory.com/story/?id=TGSDG03]

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Glasgow City Archives, D-HE2/8, Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary Inspector of Burgh of Partick