Drumchapel

Drumchapel is an area of cheaply built housing constructed in the 1950s/60s. It was built on a green field site as a short term method of reducing crowding in inner city slums. As originally built it lacked shops. Many of the locals used to work in the Clydebank Shipyards and the Goodyear factory which closed prematurely. The site is now an industrial estate and retail park. Currently Drumchapel suffers from high unemployment. Recently much renovation and demolition has taken place. The Forth and Clyde Canal (closed) runs alongside and to the south of the Helensburgh railway line through Drumchapel. In the 1850s to 1870s there were a number of Ironstone pits in the area, some of which had tramway connections (notably one crossing Peel Glen Road).

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