Layout and Location - The Stones and the Stars: Building Scotland's Newest Megalith - page 142

shows the original contours of the south faces of Broomhill and
Summerhill and makes it clear that the canal has gone well inside
both of them. The Lands of Broomhill had now been split up into
a large number of 'parks,' and those south of the canal were soon
to lose the name altogether.
The former Summerhill now had a separate identity as the
'Hundred Acre Hill Farm,' as which, according to the 1906 article,
it became “The Most Famous Dairy Place in Scotland.” “Prior to
1866, as many as 18,000 cows have stood at one time in Harvey's
Byres on Hundred Acre Hill and grazed over a wide expanse of
country to the north and west. The site occupied by the majority
of the Byres is now covered by Hugh Baird & Son's malt houses,
but the asphalt floors of several byres are visible on the hill, imme-
diately to the west of the malt-houses. Harvey's dairy farm still
flourishes in a part of the old premises, and milk from various
country districts is handled. The lowing of hundreds of cows is
now an unknown sound in Hundred Acre Hill. When the cows left
they took the name with them, and the rather foney (sic) appella-
tion of Dundas Hill has taken its place [ 19B ] .”
There was one place, however, where the name lasted at
least 28 years longer. In “The Bevvy, the Story of Glasgow and
Drink,” Rudolph Kenna records, “In 1894, the Hundred Acre Inn,
Port Dundas Road - continuously licensed since 1799 - was still
going strong. One report stated: 'The old kitchen with its vener-
able fireplace, and the parlour, where the canal men used to make
merry, were still just as they were in the olden times.' Also in Port
Dundas was the Old Basin Tavern - a favorite resort of canal boat
passengers in the days of the 'hoolits' (owlets = night boats) play-
ing between Glasgow and Edinburgh. In the 1890's, the pub was
owned by the Great Canal Brewery. The Pear Grove Tavern, North
Woodside Road, was a similar establishment - and also survived
into the 1890s [ 22 ] .”
The 1906 author goes on to argue strongly for the preservation
of the hilltop, as a recreational area to accompany “a new experi-
ment in workmen's dwellings” for “the poorest class of workers”
- “four-storey tenements, containing houses of two rooms, and
the new artistic one-room house, a model of which was on exhibi-
tion at the People's Palace” - in other words, the infamous 'but 'n'
bens' and 'single-ends' that were to give the Gorbals the highest