Daldowie
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The lands of Daldowie in Glasgow, Scotland lie astride the River Clyde on the south and the North Calder Water to the east (marking the boundary with South Lanarkshire), and stretch to the present area of Broomhouse in the north (on the opposite side of the M74 motorway, with both areas served by Junction 3A).
Daldowie Crematorium and House
Daldowie Crematorium[https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/crematoriums/daldowie-crematorium Daldowie Crematorium] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827051526/https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/crematoriums/daldowie-crematorium |date=27 August 2019 }}, Funeral Guide was constructed in 1952 by Lanarkshire County Council and opened in 1955,[https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=36193&p=0 Daldowie Crematorium]{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Glasgow City Council on the grounds of the historic Daldowie House – home of the Stewarts of Minto and George Bogle of Daldowie. His son, George Bogle the younger made an expedition to Tibet as the first British envoy to China. An elegant house was built in the 1730s and extended in the 1830s by a local ironmaster, John Dixon; of which only the dovecote survived.[https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSB00261 Daldowie House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814182200/https://theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSB00261 |date=14 August 2020 }}, The Glasgow Story It was one of a string of estates strung out along the River Clyde from Dalmarnock–, through Westthorn and Dalbeth to Easterhill, which went from being country seats in the 18th century, through an exploitation of their iron and coal deposits in the 19th century,[https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSG00031&t=2 Daldowie Miners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303050415/https://theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSG00031&t=2 |date=3 March 2021 }}, The Glasgow Story[http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/231.html Old Monkland - Housing Conditions of Miners (1910)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905145623/http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/231.html |date=5 September 2019 }}, Scottish Mining Website to the commercial and residential uses which predominate today; aside from the crematorium and its garden grounds, the area is now dominated by a waste water treatment works,[https://canmore.org.uk/collection/1438041 Daldowie Sewage Works, County Drainage Engineering, 23 Clydesdale Terrace, Hamilton Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing West (1952)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827051524/https://canmore.org.uk/collection/1438041 |date=27 August 2019 }}, Canmore including a waste-to-fuel facility which produces biomass briquettes from the sewage solids.[https://www.scottishpower.com/userfiles/file/Daldowie%20Site-Information-2014.pdf Daldowie Fuel Plant: Site Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616130357/https://www.scottishpower.com/userfiles/file/Daldowie%20Site-Information-2014.pdf |date=16 June 2022 }}, Scottish Power[http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2016/06/07/bidding-starts-for-110m-glasgow-sewage-works/ Bidding starts for £110m Glasgow sewage works] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827051530/http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2016/06/07/bidding-starts-for-110m-glasgow-sewage-works/ |date=27 August 2019 }}, Construction Enquirier, 7 June 2016[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/newton-residents-work-firm-fight-21434534 Newton residents work with firm to fight smell] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307072037/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/newton-residents-work-firm-fight-21434534 |date=7 March 2021 }}, Daily Record, 5 February 2020
See also
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External links
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- [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/smihou033.htm Photograph of Daldowie House in the 19th Century]
- [http://sites.bookofremembrance.eu/index2.php?site=daldowie Online remembrance at Daldowie Crematorium]
- [https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst11608.html Daldowie Crematorium] at Gazetteer for Scotland
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