Timeline - GiffnockGiffnock
1833 Nellie’s Toll or Eastwood Toll was established.
1835 Sandstone first quarried in Giffnock
1850s Mansion House, now Eastwood House, built
1854 Glasgow coal mining firm, Baird & Stevenson, took over quarrying operations at Giffnock
1858 Thornliebank House, first Birkenshaw House, later Rouken Glen Mansion House, reconstructed by Walter Crum.
1890’s Residential Giffnock began to develop around the station and Eastwood Toll
1892 Gas first introduced to Giffnock
1892 Rhuallan House built for William Brown, a coal merchant.
1895 Redhurst House built of local Giffnock brick by Mr & Mrs Yuille
1896 Orchardhill Church opened, "B" listed building.
1904 William Graham Crum sold Rouken Glen Estate to Cameron Corbett M.P. for Glasgow, later Lord Rowallan
1905 First tram to Giffnock
1906 1st May, Lord Rowallan donated the grounds of Rouken Glen to the Corporation of Glasgow for the people of Glasgow - officially opened 26th May.
1911 Last horse bus between Newton Mearns and Eastwood Toll Newton Mearns
1914 Lord Weir bought Eastwood Estate including Mansion House.
1934 Giffnock Synagogue in May Terrace is built
1934-35 Williamwood scheme built
1936 Tudor Cinema built by Alex Frutin, on Fenwick Rd where Safeways now stands
1936-38 Orchard Park scheme built
1957 Rhuallan House gifted by the British Legion to the District Council in 1957
1960 Last gas lamp disconnected, now at 272 Fenwick Road
1962 Eastwood Toll reconstructed
1963 Thornliebank House, later Rouken Glen Mansion House, demolished
1968 County Council bought 60 acres of Eastwood Park and Mansion House -Eastwood House
1987 The Thumb retirement flats built at Eastwood Toll
