The biggest problem encountered in pulling this together was that when Baillieston came into Glasgow in 1975 the Lanarkshire County Council  planning  meeting records that were stored in their head office in Hamilton were either destroyed or lost in the regionalisation transfer of records. I remember going into the Glasgow District Planning Office in George Street Glasgow around 2000/2001 and asking where I could access the old LCC planning documents? The response I got was that they didn't know where they were, but they will have been dumped in the corner of a storage room somewhere. They were not interested. 

Most of what was found was online and digitalised and really made this exercise possible. I personally spent quite a sum of money downloading hundreds of these digitised certificates as they are not free; however the time and traveling saved was well worth the cost. Time has also been helpful as more and more old records have been digitised in the 20+ years or so since I first attempted it .  If anyone who reads this article and wishes to see a particular document I will be pleased to send them a copy.

In my research I wandered around every street and field in  Baillieston, visited old relatives born just after WWI. It even went beyond Baillieston, into Bargeddie, Mount Vernon , Barlanark, Barrachnie, Swinton following leads.  I had put scores of jpegs of the district in the original edition of this on to  the old BB&B website back around 2000, and I still have them all, but since we now have Google Maps I will only put in historical jpegs that are relevant and give us a 'what was' view.

I have tried to make this different sort of historical view of Baillieston based on the street names and hope I makes our local area as interesting as possible.

The first page deals with the origin of the name Baillieston and its most influential family, the Maxwell family. It has been suggested in books that the Baillieston Estate had always been owned by the Maxwell family, however there is no definitive proof of that.