Layout and Location - The Stones and the Stars: Building Scotland's Newest Megalith - page 144

F IG . 5.13 Plan of the Hundred Acre Hill Farm, undated
(Fig. 5.13 ) . The Bleachfield has been expelled from Serjeant's Fauld,
which is now 'Mr. Stewart's property' (on both sides of the canal),
but it has extended southward and become a permanent feature that
was about to claim a lot of territory for the little-known St. Rollox,
a.k.a. St. Roche.
In those days bleaching involved prolonged exposure to the
Sun, and the first official bleachfield had been set up at Gray's
Green in 1729, “probably catering for the embryonic linen indus-
try in the city,” says Hume. By the late eighteenth century there
were quite a number of bleachfields around the perimeter of the
city: Hume has found examples at Wellmeadowfield in Pollock-
shaws, Bellgreen, Bellshaugh, Kirklee in Kelvinside, Springfield in
Dalmarnock, Kelvinhaugh and Hogganfield in Millerston and we
can add Broomhill to that list. This phase of the early textile indus-
try is immortalized in one of the most beautiful Glaswegian love
songs, of which Pete Shepheard collected an abridged but unusu-
ally detailed version in Perthshire in 1965: