MAXWELLTON VILLAGE, see description please | Saved from demolition, and now a Conservation Area [4K]

THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET !
Location : Maxwellton Village, Calderwood, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND

1:05 - 2:42 Conservation Area, Maxwellton Village, Weaver’s Cottages saved from planned demolition in the 1960s.
0:38 - 0:50 3:39 - 4:06 5:53 - 6:37 Retained stretches of woodland in the district.
2:52 - 3:39 Villas on Maxwell Drive, predate the New Town development.
4:52 - 5:14 Sheltered housing (new), Maxwellton Place.
5:20 - 5:48 New Town, development houses and apartments built in the 1960s
4:06 - 4:36 Show Park, East Kilbride


Part of a 3 mile walk in ‘The Calderwood’ - a residential district of East Kilbride, Scotland. Going down Maxwellton Avenue and Maxwell Drive, then back again. Passing through the ‘Conservation Area’ - Maxwellton Village. An area of 23 renovated weavers cottages. Using the underpass to reach the other side of the dual carriageway, a main through road, The Kingsway. Passing the Detached Villas of Maxwell Drive. Exploring some of the retained areas of woodland in this area of Calderwood.

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** Content courtesy of the Author - CHRIS LADDS, East Kilbride & District Historical Archive. Via Wikipedia LICENCE CC BY - SA **

“The 18th–19th. century, weaving village of MAXWELLTON survives as a ‘Conservation Area’, inside the new town of East Kilbride.
Once an isolated rural community, Maxwellton Village was the main area of settlement in the Barony lands of the ancient Calderwood Estate, where from 1400 until about 1900, the Maxwells of Calderwood were the main landed family.

DEMOLITION PLAN !

Maxwellton became prominent locally and nationally in the 1960s, when a dispute broke out between residents and the East Kilbride ( New Town) Development Corporation, which sought to condemn the settlement as a slum and demolish it to make way for part of the East Kilbride new town development.
The Burgh Council of East Kilbride sided with the villagers, and with backing from the National Trust For Scotland, the campaign over subsequent years saved most of the village on historic, architectural and aesthetic grounds. Maxwellton village then joined the early statutory conservation areas in Scotland, after nearby Eaglesham in 1968.

The campaign to save the village reached cabinet level in the House of Commons and gained national publicity, mostly due through Judith Hart MP and Fred S. Mitchell. Mitchell was a memoirist, a topographical historian for Calderwood and a Maxwellton resident, on the reference staff of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow.
After the rescue, the village began to receive backing from the Development Corporation originally intent on its destruction. The result was the national press sponsoring the restoration of one derelict cottage – thereafter referred to locally as the Express Cottage, as the Scottish Daily Express issued regular national coverage of its attempts to restore the house to fashionable conservation standards. The interest in the village then led over a thousand buyers to bid for the 23 run-down Maxwellton cottages.
The efforts to restore the village and the Development Corporation's publicity led to an unveiling of the show cottage by the Marchioness of Bute, which received national press coverage.”
My thanks to : CHRIS LADDS East Kilbride & District Historical Archive. Via Wikipedia *