Rutherglen

Etymology

The name of Rutherglen, as well as its Scots name Ruglen, is perhaps ;

History

Rutherglen received the status of Royal Burgh in 1126 by Royal Charter from King David I of Scotland, who reigned from 1124 to 1153. It gradually diminished in importance as neighbouring Glasgow grew in power and size. The masons who built Glasgow Cathedral are thought to have lodged in Rutherglen.

In the 14th century Walter Stewart, father of King Robert II, was granted Farme Castle. This was located close to Farme Cross in the north of Rutherglen, and stood until the 1960s.

Rutherglen Castle, located to the north of the town's Main Street today, was occupied by an English garrison during the struggle between John Balliol and Robert Bruce for the Scottish crown. It was besieged by Robert the Bruce in 1309 and eventually came into Scottish possession in 1313. It was destroyed by Regent Murray after the Battle of Langside with the stones used for other buildings, and no trace remaining.

Rutherglen was a centre of heavy industry, having a long coal mining tradition which died out by 1950. In the 18th century, barges carried coal from Rutherglen to Greenock almost every day. A small shipyard, T.B. Seath & Co., was in operation on the Clyde at the northern edge of the town for several decades. The Clydebridge Steelworks, situated between Rutherglen and Cambuslang, began operating in the 1880s and employed thousands by the mid-20th century, but the workforce dwindled to a few dozen by the 20th century and now only refines steel produced elsewhere. J & J White Chemicals (later ACC Chrome & Chemicals) in Shawfield, which was in existence from 1820 to 1967, produced more than 70 per cent of the UK's chromate products including chromic acid, chromic oxide pigment, sodium and potassium chromate and dichromate. Today there is a significant legacy of soluble chromium (VI) waste in the area.

The town seal's 19th-century Latin motto rendered by Professor George Gilbert Ramsay is "Ex fumo fama" ('fame from smoke'). A local saying derived from it is "Let Ruglen's lums reek briskly". There is also the deliberately difficult to pronounce alternative "Ru’glen’s wee roond red lums reek briskly". (These are an adaptation of a Scotticism that correlates a smoking chimney with a prosperous, healthy and long life). All refer to the importance of industry and industriousness to the area.

The traditional version of the seal itself contained depictions of the Virgin and Child supported by twin angels (earlier by priests with thistles) and a fishing boat and men in the background. Along with the addition of the motto, in the 1889 official version the boat had a water design added, became more prominent and was placed in a shield at front centre, flanked by the angels with a helmet and mantling above, and the Virgin Mary above that. Over a century later, a simplified version was produced in 1999 featuring only the boat, the motto and a crown to represent the historic Royal Burgh status (which by then no longer had any legal significance); in the early 21st century, this seal often appears on the local Christmas lights. The ship and crown appear on the similar South Lanarkshire coat of arms, with cinquefoil flowers representing Hamilton and a double-headed eagle for Lanark.

Horse and cattle markets, including the regular Beltane Fair in May and St Luke's Fair in November (accompanied by the baking of sour cakes by locals) were also common and popular until the 20th century, and are the reason for the Main Street being unusually wide.

Rutherglen is nowadays primarily a dormitory suburb of Glasgow.

Governance

Westminster

A separate constituency in the Parliament of Scotland from the late 16th century, Rutherglen was a parliamentary burgh represented in the UK Parliament as a component of Glasgow Burghs constituency from 1708 to 1832, and as a component of Kilmarnock Burghs from 1832 to 1918. In 1918, the Rutherglen constituency was created, which became Glasgow Rutherglen in 1983. In 2005, Scottish constituencies for the UK parliament were reviewed with many new seats introduced, and the town fell within the new Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency. Following another review in 2023, the Rutherglen constituency was revived.

As of October 2023, Michael Shanks of the Scottish Labour Party is the local MP; He won a by-election after the previous incumbent Margaret Ferrier, latterly an independent, was removed in a recall petition. Ferrier won the 2015 and 2019 elections representing the Scottish National Party, with Labour's Ged Killen serving a brief term from 2017 to 2019. She was the town's first female MP as well as the first for the SNP (the seat had been held by Labour since 1964, with only two men – Gregor Mackenzie and Tommy McAvoy – representing the area between then and 2010, after which Tom Greatrex served one full term). Michael Shanks retained the seat comfortably when the revived Rutherglen constituency was first contested in 2024.

Holyrood

In 1999, the Scottish Parliamentary constituency of Glasgow Rutherglen was created, with the same boundaries as the then UK parliamentary constituency. Labour's Janis Hughes was the first elected MSP. In 2011, The constituency was redrawn and renamed simply Rutherglen (although it also encompasses Cambuslang and Blantyre). Following the 2016 elections, Clare Haughey (SNP) is the MSP for Rutherglen. The defeated incumbent James Kelly (Labour) was elected as a list MSP for the Glasgow region which includes Rutherglen due to the town's proximity to the city. Haughey held the seat in the 2021 election with a slightly increased majority.

South Lanarkshire Council

Administratively, the historic town centre is within the Rutherglen Central and North ward of South Lanarkshire Council, which has a population of around 15,000. Taking another ward encompassing the southern parts of the town into consideration, its overall population was approximately 30,000 in 2016. With neighbouring Cambuslang's figures being very similar, the many services and amenities shared between the towns should provide for 60,000 residents, many assessed as living in economic hardship.

• South Lanarkshire Council election results detailing local wards: 1995, 1999; 2003; 2007; 2012; 2017; 2022

Transport

Rutherglen Burgh is served by Rutherglen railway station (opened in 1849), with and stations closer to southern parts of the town. There are also numerous bus links into Glasgow city centre or other destinations such as Hamilton, East Kilbride, Govanhill and Dennistoun, all services either running directly along the Main Street (which has dedicated public transport lanes for peak times) or close to it via Mill Street / Glasgow Road (A730) to the west, Cambuslang Road (A724) to the north or Stonelaw Road / Farmeloan Road (A749) to the east. Glasgow Corporation Tramways operated routes in the area from the early 1900s until the late 1950s.

Completion of the M74 Extension in 2011 meant that there is a six-lane motorway bisecting the northern part of the town, allowing easier access to places such as Glasgow Airport and the English border. Some years after the project was completed, studies show that pollution levels on Rutherglen's densely populated Main Street were still measured consistently at dangerously high levels, despite forecasts that traffic levels on urban streets in areas served by the motorway would reduce.

Media

The local newspaper is the Rutherglen Reformer (owned by Reach plc, with online content presented under the Daily Record banner). The local community radio station is CamGlen Radio.

Geography

Since being granted Royal Burgh status by King David I in the 12th century, Rutherglen has grown considerably from its origins as little more than a single street, and although growth has been hampered to some extent by the proximity of the river Clyde to the north, the encroaching Glasgow urban sprawl to the west and the boundary with neighbouring Cambuslang to the east, it now covers a much larger area than its ancient parish boundaries. Historic areas near the Main Street such as Bankhead, Burnhill and Gallowflat have changed greatly over the decades, with the Farme Cross and Shawfield areas mostly occupied by industry of various types; the expansion of the village of Burnside (which falls under the Rutherglen boundary but has its own Community Council) to share a single suburban settlement with its larger neighbour, and the construction after World War II of peripheral housing schemes on land surrounding Burnside which had been either farms or rural estates (Blairbeth, Cathkin, Eastfield, Fernhill, Spittal and Springhall) have given the town a frequently changing character.

The 1922 book Rutherglen Lore indicated a deliberate intention for the historic Burgh area to be encircled to the south by residential suburbs, while all land to its north would be dedicated to industry, and that largely remains the case a century later. This focus, and the aforementioned territorial limitations, have meant housebuilding has generally been southwards on the higher ground leading to the Cathkin Braes (with almost all suitable land occupied by the early 21st century) and nowadays the town's historic core, with the majority of facilities and the highest population density, is concentrated much further north than the geographic centre. Cambuslang has a similar issue: its main street is in the far west of its territory near to the Rutherglen boundary and the river, and eastwards has been the easiest direction of its suburban expansion.

Burgh (Main Street) and Clincarthill

The Burgh area includes the old heart of the around the ancient and unusually wide, It features several religious establishments, various pubs, shops and restaurants, historic and modern civic buildings and community facilities, all within a dense network of housing, mainly tenements. the webcam is no longer in operation, although later proposals were made by local civic figures to have another installed.

The dominant architectural feature of the Main Street, on its north side, is the imposing Town Hall built in 1862 to a design by Charles Wilson. Having fallen into disrepair and disuse and today is a venue for weddings, theatrical performances and exhibitions, while still providing some local services.

Most of the other most important Rutherglen landmarks are in the immediate vicinity of the Town Hall. To its west is Rutherglen Old Parish Church, constructed in 1902 to a J. J. Burnet design. Between the church and the town hall sits the ancient graveyard (13th century), the (16th century) and its Kirk Port stone entrance (17th century).

On the corner of Main Street and Queen Street outside the church is a statue of Dr. James Gorman (1832–1899), a well-known local surgeon – this was erected in 1901 by public subscription due to his great standing in the area for his actions, including treating the injured after mining disasters. To the rear of the church is a Masonic Hall dating from 1897 and built to replace older premises on Cathcart Road – the group can trace their origins locally back to the 1760s.

To the immediate east of the Town Hall is the burgh's public library constructed in 1907 to an Edwardian design by Sinclair & Ballantine (technically 'Post Office and Library', but the dedicated post office closed in 2005, A Carnegie library, its main hall to the rear features a stained-glass dome in the roof and oak paneling in the interior. Its first librarian, who also lived in the upper floor, was William Ross Shearer, author of the 1922 book Rutherglen Lore which would come to be considered one of the most important references for the town's long history. The building was refurbished in the early 1990s and re-opened once again in 2010 following a further extensive refurbishment which included an expansion into the Post Office section. On the wide pavement outside the library is a replica of the town's mercat cross (the original stood nearby from the 12th to the 18th century),

Behind the library on King Street is the premises of the local branch of The Salvation Army whose brass band play regularly at the Old Parish Church and who have had a presence in the town since the 1880s; their hall stands roughly on the site of the mediaeval Rutherglen Castle, and replaced a wooden building initially used by the Rechabite Society. The local fire brigade (established 1892) was also based nearby, but since 1970 the local station has been at Cambuslang with other stations fairly close at Polmadie and Castlemilk.

Directly across from the Town Hall is , the current main building of which dates from 1940 (designed by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia), Behind the church are its older halls, which was rebuilt internally after a major fire in 2004. To the west of the church, hemmed in by tenements is the 1930s Vogue Cinema, which is the only surviving building of its type in the town, although it was converted to a bingo hall in the 1970s.

Other buildings of note include the 128 ft spire of Rutherglen East Parish Church at Rutherglen Cross – the junction of Main Street, Farmeloan Road and Stonelaw Road – which was originally built in 1872 for a Reformed Presbyterian congregation, Its church halls became a facility used by local community organisations. After a new eastern section of Main Street was set out with the removal of old cottages beside the church (this would later be extended through the Gallowflat area), in 1914 a cinema, 'The Pavilion' was constructed there to a design by John Fairweather; later being refurbished in 1930 as 'Green’s Picturedrome', it closed in 1959 although was not demolished until the 1980s.

Behind the East Church on King Street, once the location of one of the local Stonelaw coal mines in the 19th century, before the building was largely destroyed by a fire in 2022.

Further west between King Street and High Street, the ornate Rutherglen Evangelistic Institute was completed in 1887 with input from local businessmen John White (Lord Overtoun) and Daniel Rodger (brother of the local MP Adam Keir Rodger) and played a significant role in supporting local members in military service during World War I, but had fallen out of use and been demolished by the 1940s, with only the later housekeeper's residence still remaining and modern apartments occupying the rest of the site; however, the adjacent three-storey Burgh Primary School building (1901) has been retained and was converted to a business centre. Across the street to the north is Glenburgh Nursery Centre, a modern dedicated council childcare facility for the town centre.

In 2010, Burgh Primary moved from their 1901 building to new premises a few blocks east, still in the heart of town on Victoria Street, – this site was previously the location of the Macdonald School: built 1865, used in its later years as an annex for Rutherglen Academy, then as a nursery and community centre, demolished in the 2000s. The new school's mini sports pitch was once the site of the Rutherglen United Presbyterian Church from 1836 until the 1910s while on the opposite side of King Street sits the current Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster premises, next to a wynd leading to Main Street which has existed for several centuries.

The Mitchell Arcade indoor shopping precinct on the south side of Main Street, built in the early 1970s it has a rooftop car park and used to feature a daily market. A branch of Boots Chemist occupied a corner site both in the older buildings at Rutherglen Cross and when these were replaced, having a presence at the same location in the town for over a century. The land to the east on Stonelaw Road stood unused for several years until the local council housing office (later a business centre) was constructed there in the 1990s, while as of 2020 the land across the road once occupied by the 'Electric Palace Cinema' (later a billiards hall) has never been built upon.

A short distance to the west of the Arcade, the contemporary Greenhill Court housing complex (consisting of three main blocks and two smaller connecting blocks, designed in a 'scissor section' setup) similarly replaced a street of tenements at Regent Street, home to Paterson's bakers (biscuits and oatcakes) from 1895 until 1971 when the factory became outdated and production moved to Livingston.

At what is now the western end of Main Street (since it was shortened by the construction of the dual carriageway bypass first phase in the early 1970s), there are two public houses on its northern side; the 'Vogue Bar' has been present for some decades and is known as a base for local Celtic F.C. supporters; the 'Picture House' is a 2009 expansion of the equally venerable Linn O Dee establishment, taking inspiration for its name from another disappeared cinema, the 'Rio', which was demolished in 1971 to make way for the bypass. when a textiles shop (previously the local co-operative society's headquarters) on the south side of Main Street opposite the Vogue and Picture House was to be converted into a new Wetherspoons pub ('An Ruadh-Ghleann', taking its name from the Gaelic version of Rutherglen).

There is a high concentration of licensed premises in the vicinity, several with a continuous presence on the same spot since the mid-19th century including the three aforementioned hostelries on Main Street plus 'The Sportsman' on Glasgow Road, 'The Millcroft' and 'Wallace Bar' on the old section of Mill Street and the 'Cathkin Inn' two blocks further south, 'Harleys Sky Bar', 'Gormans' and 'The Burgh Bar' around Queen Street, 'Chapmans' at Rutherglen Cross and the 'Victoria Bar' a short distance further north, plus three dedicated off-sales and additional licensed grocers, and several other premises which were converted from bars to other uses in the early-21st century. As well as the clustering of pubs being explained by historic licensing arrangements, the proximity of Hampden Park and Celtic Park football stadiums also brings some occasional additional custom to the area, which to some extent also accounts for a high number of bookmakers around the Main Street.

While redevelopment saw many of central Rutherglen's older tenements swept away, This later became the Rutherglen and Cambuslang Housing Association, based at the Aspire Centre and managing hundreds of properties in the area, although some like Greenhill Court are still managed directly by the local authority. Despite new projects being undertaken regularly by the organisation in the limited space available in the area, the shortage of homes available for rent became a major issue locally going into the 21st century.

The town's current railway station opened in 1979 is the fourth such provision in the immediate area, with the first (1842–1879 and second (1879–1897) - on what are now the West Coast Main Line tracks which no longer offer a stop in Rutherglen - accessed from either side of Farmeloan Road. The third version (1892–1979) was further west and accessed off Queen Street; it was soon extended in 1896 to include the Glasgow Central Railway line (which is now the Argyle Line served by the current station) which increased the total number of platforms on various lines to twelve, but this gradually reduced until 1964 when the Beeching cuts resulted in the Glasgow Central extension closing, with only two at Queen Street remaining. On the opening of the Argyle Line and new station in 1979 the old station was abandoned, although its crumbling platforms are still visible and its entrance stairway and walkway is linked to its replacement.

Located on an island platform and now directly under the elevated M74 motorway, the current station is connected to the Burgh streets via a covered pedestrian overbridge, the main entrance to which on Victoria Street was decorated with murals themed on the history of the town in 2018. Beside this mural to the west is Reuther Hall, a community centre used by a retired ladies group among others, while to the east is the building previously used as the town Employment Exchange - it has been converted into business use, as has the Youth Employment Exchange on King Street, while the local JobCentre service is now based further south at Greenhill Road.

Clincarthill

Lying immediately to the south of the Burgh area between Greenhill Road and Johnstone Drive, Clincarthill rises high over the Main Street offering fine northern views. The area has a distinctive character of its own, with plenty of remaining old sandstone tenements, villas and terraced houses from the late 19th and early 20th century, while the town's JobCentre is built on the site of another (Greenhill Church). Adjacent to this is a vacant plot which was the location of Rutherglen Swimming Pool from 1967 until the 2005 but has lain empty since.

There is also a Catholic primary school (St Columbkille's) in Clincarthill, built on the site of Bellevue House, a children's home run by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul from 1912 to 1961 which was discredited in the 2018 Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.

Rutherglen Primary Care Centre, the town's public health facility, is located on flatter land south of Clincarthill backing on to Overtoun Park (where another hill forms to the west) and built around 1999 to replace the Rutherglen Health Centre, which it itself had replaced the old clinic on Main Street that was bulldozed to allow construction of the Mill Street bypass road. Rutherglen Maternity Hospital stood adjacent from 1978 to 1998, but despite a good record of patient care and only 20 years in operation, it was closed and demolished to alleviate financial burdens in the local health board and concentrate a wider range of services over fewer sites. With the hospital constructed on reclaimed park land that had been an excavated part of a mine before being filled in, there was also concern that chromium contamination was present in the ground. The immediate area also features a number of old buildings, including a square block of red sandstone tenements and some grand villas.

Farme Cross

Farme Cross is one of the boundary areas of Rutherglen and is surrounded to the north by the River Clyde with Glasgow's Dalmarnock district on the opposite bank, the two sides being linked by iron road and rail bridges dating from the 1890s, while it is separated from the old Burgh area uphill to the south by 19th century railway tracks and a 21st century motorway. It originated as the Farme estate crown property which was passed through noble families for centuries. Centred around the Farme Castle, it became known for coal mining from the early 19th century under the control of estate owner James Farie, with other industries soon following. The roads through the territory (A724 and A749) meet to join two busy routes between eastern Glasgow to the north, Rutherglen to the south and Cambuslang (via Eastfield) to the east. It was served by Glasgow's tram network providing transport for the workforces, a role still performed by buses.

There are several historic buildings and pieces of street art here, including a set of four carved standing stones ('Boundary Stones' by Richard Brown, 2001) installed in an area of open ground to commemorate the history of the Royal Burgh and its original boundary stones, some of which (dating back to the 18th and 19th century) are themselves still in situ, mostly at Farme Cross and in the southern parts of the town. Another monument ('Slipsteam' by Joseph Ingleby, 2001) alongside the river near Dalmarnock Bridge involves metallic cogged mouldings (featuring designs by local schoolchildren) placed on brick walls and emerging in loops from the ground, and recalls local industry on the Clyde and the contours of the river itself.

Businesses at Farme Cross were once many and varied, where the nearby Dalmarnock, Bridgeton and Parkhead districts also developed a similar strong industrial profile The industries included:

• the Farme Castle Colliery with two pits, associated row cottages and branch railway – its Newcomen atmospheric engine is on display at Summerlee Industrial Heritage Museum (Coatbridge)
• the Caledonian Pottery which was latterly operated by Hartley's Jams and was later the site of a small steel works; lying in the path of the new motorway construction, it was first subject to an excavation which uncovered the foundations of the original buildings for examination
• Scotia Bolt Works
• three dyeing works (Clyde Bank Works; David Millar & Co / Clydesdale Dye Works; Eastfield Dye Works which later became the Eastfield Chair Works)
• three tube/pipe works (Unicode; James Menzies and Co / Phoenix Tubeworks; and the adjacent James Eadie and Sons / Clydesdale Tube Works, both acquired by Stewarts & Lloyds)
• three wire rope works (John Todd & Son / Rutherglen Ropes; John Wilson & Son / Eastfield Ropery; and Clyde Patent Rope Works / Allan, Whyte and Co, acquired by British Ropes) the latter of which had a distinctive sandstone office with turret situated on the cross, demolished in the 1990s after falling into disrepair
• two paper mills (Eastfield Paper Mill near the river and the 'Old Farme' steading which has survived to the 21st century, and the larger Clyde Paper Mill off Cambuslang Road),
• Adam's Brickworks
• the Monogram bedding factory (previously used by the EKCO radio equipment company)

By the 1970s, the vast majority of these industries had either severely contracted or in most cases closed altogether, The low-lying area was severely impacted by a flood in 1994, as had occurred previously in 1903, resulting in improved prevention measures being introduced. One of the firms which endured into the 21st century, Sanmex Chemicals, eventually left town in the 2010s after a merger with an Ayrshire-based rival. Another, the bottling and distribution arm of The Speyside distillery, had closed a few years earlier. Both sites were soon advertised as new investment opportunities.

A Tesco superstore built in the early 21st century on some of the vacant former industrial land between the river and railway lines off Dalmarnock Road (specifically the Phoenix Tubeworks, which had been converted into a trading estate) was later extended to feature two fast-food restaurants. A small light industry development borders the superstore, and this mirrors the changes throughout Farme Cross, with the bustling but dirty factories of the past gradually being replaced by small workshops, business units and modern warehouses and depots, though in some cases with an intervening period of several years as derelict buildings, then cleared brownfield land awaiting development. Regeneration projects (controlled by the Clyde Gateway organisation) accelerated following the completion of the M74 Extension to the Glasgow Region Motorway network in 2011, with Junction 2 directly serving Farme Cross. This led to more ambitious plans being adopted for the area (as well as at Shawfield), including the Rutherglen Links environmentally friendly business park, the main building for which occupies a prominent location off Farmeloan Road, with further office pavilions further east towards the motorway junction.

Various further commercial proposals have been put forward for the eastern part of this area, with disused depots levelled and a driving range under construction between 2020 and 2022.

Despite its identity being dominated by heavy industry, there has always been a residential aspect to Farme Cross. a cluster of four small streets built for local workers by the Glasgow Working Men's Investment and Building Society in the 1880s, the only co-operative housing of this kind in the town and built at angles off the main road, designated as a conservation area in the 1980s. Traditional tenements which once stood right on the cross in front of the terraces and opposite on Farmeloan Road were demolished in the mid-20th century, The area facing this block, where British Ropes once had their turreted offices, was developed as the Lloyd Court apartment complex in the 2000s, the design of which resembles older styles. A small inter-war development of cottage flats around Montraive Street and grey concrete tenements at Barnflat Street and Baronald Street received new neighbours in the early 2000s with the building of around 100 houses at Farme Castle Court (this is actually slightly east of the actual location of Farme Castle).

Rutherglen's Kingdom Hall (established in 1958, rebuilt in 2012) is located in Farme Cross on Baronald Street. Across the street is a playground and a small local community hall. The Farme Bowling Club on Cambuslang Road, which was linked to the nearby Clyde Paper Mill, closed its doors in 2006.

The Cuningar Loop is an area of land south of the River Clyde near Farme Cross. An isolated meander of the river which was once a Glasgow sewage treatment facility, connecting across the Clyde to the City of Glasgow (Dalmarnock) and the Commonwealth Games village development via a new footbridge.

Shawfield

Main article: Shawfield

The Shawfield district, the mostly northerly in the town and once a country estate before being converted into a chemicals facility by the White family, is still industrial in nature, but much of it abandoned in the early 21st century due to the collapse of heavy industry generally, and contamination from the Whites Chemical Works in particular. The Clyde Gateway projects aim to reinvest in this area and create new business parks and make the River Clyde accessible in Rutherglen again – the town's old port, once home of Thomas Seath shipbuilders which specialised in Clutha ferries and paddle steamers, is located here. Currently Shawfield Stadium (the former home of Clyde F.C.) hosts greyhound racing; although not immediately noticeable, the building has Art Deco features.

Rutherglen Bridge at Shawfield is the oldest crossing between Rutherglen and Glasgow – specifically the Bridgeton district of the city which was named after the bridge when its construction accelerated industrial growth and trade in the previously agricultural area.

Wardlawhill, Gallowflat and Stonelaw

Wardlawhill

Lying across Stonelaw Road east of Clincarthill, the Wardlawhill area includes some older large houses and tenement buildings; Adjacent to this street, placed at the top of stairs off Hamilton Road and partly built into the hill itself, is the Sri Sundara Ganapathy Hindu Temple (built 1882), previously Wardlawhill Parish Church – the congregation of which merged with the West Parish at Burnhill in 2007, the building being sold in 2010. The church halls across the road are still used by local youth groups such as the Boys Brigade.

To the south, on the other side of the hill is the Rutherglen Academy building on Melrose Avenue (built 1886) Opposite the Academy is a small early 20th century apexed building, originally St Stephen's Episcopal Church, nowadays used as a Masonic Lodge since 1971, after the group's previous premises on Cathcart Street (dating from 1875, latterly also used by the neighbouring Toryglen chapter) were demolished for the Mill Street bypass project.History, St. John Operative 347 The house system of Stonelaw High School used to be named from avenues in the area (Jedburgh, Dryburgh, Melrose and Kelso, taken from the Scottish Borders); however, at the start of the 2018 school year this theme changed to Scottish Islands: Arran, Bute and Skye.

Gallowflat

The Gallowflat area, known locally as East Main Street, features some 1920s cottage flats and tenement buildings, dating from the construction of an extension to the Main Street – although it may appear natural for the route to continue eastwards as it does today, historically Main Street (and King Street) terminated at Farmeloan Road which had been used at one time as an icehouse in the grounds of the grand Gallowflat House (built 1760s, demolished 1910s) which was located at the eastern end of today's Reid Street.

Gallowflat Public School (built 1908), later the annexe of Stonelaw High School from 1970 to 1998, was also in the area on Hamilton Road with most of its campus now largely replaced by housing and an elderly persons' care home aside from one red sandstone block on McCallum Avenue which was converted to apartments in the 2020s. During the 28 years when the Academy and Gallowflat buildings were part of the same school, hundreds of teenage pupils would walk the 400 yd between them several times each day via the very steep Wardlaw Drive and other quiet residential streets.

Stonelaw

Stonelaw is the area south of Gallowflat and Wardlawhill and east of the Primary Care Centre, features of which include Rutherglen Bowling Club – having migrated south from its first (1868) site on Greenhill Road in 1902, the organisation then sold the adjoining land for construction of a church in 1907. The imposing red sandstone building which resulted is now known as Stonelaw Parish Church, though it too was built for a congregation relocating from the old part of town, A further modernisation in 2019 included modification of the main hall's pews, designed to accommodate far more parishioners than recent attendances, into a more flexible system.

There are two other bowling clubs in the vicinity, also dating from the 1900/10s when that part of the town was being developed: Overtoun Park Bowling Club to the west and Templeton Bowling Club to the east – originally part of the recreation grounds for the James Templeton & Co textile company which had its main premises on Glasgow Green, the club long outlasted its parent firm and the rest of the grounds are nowadays Stonelaw High School's playing fields.

A mansion house, Eastpark, stood next door to Templeton's (accessed from Buchanan Drive); it was converted to use a nursing home and has continued as part of the Abbeyfield care group, although the expansion and modernisation of the business led to the demolition of the old house, with only its conical sandstone gateposts remaining. Also at Buchanan Drive and on the east side of Stonelaw Road approaching Burnside is Woodburn Park, a valley-like wooded green space, previously a quarry.

This neighbourhood has many features of the garden suburb, and is perhaps the most up-market place in Rutherglen, being home to many expensive properties. A development of distinctive quartered villas on Rosslyn Avenue / Dryburgh Avenue date from the 1910s, a few years after the houses at Wardlawhill and Clincarthill were completed as Rutherglen began to expand southwards.

The new (1998) site of Stonelaw High School are on the peripheries of the Stonelaw and Burnside areas and also close to Eastfield. Another local school, Calderwood Primary on Buchanan Drive, is sometimes labelled as being located in the Burnside neighbourhood, although its catchment areas are mainly Stonelaw, Eastfield, Gallowflat and the residential streets around Richmond Drive (mostly bungalows built in the 1930s) that, like the schools, do not fall under any single recognised neighbourhood.

Eastfield

Main article: Eastfield, South Lanarkshire

A former mining community and country estate and its sports facilities including public swimming pool are located in Eastfield, which also has two public houses, both off Dukes Road.

To the north of Eastfield and east of Farme Cross is the Clydebridge Steelworks, nowadays operating to a far lower capacity and with a fraction of workers than at its peak points in the mid-20th century when over 3,000 were employed there. Located within a meander of the River Clyde, it was largely inaccessible to civilians until 2011 when the M74 motorway extension was constructed through the middle of its extensive territory. In 2020, the corporation which owned the works announced development plans for the grounds, beginning with a hotel.

Burnhill, Newfield and Bankhead

Burnhill

Burnhill, in the north-west of Rutherglen, directly borders the Glasgow district of Toryglen to its west (along with woodland at the Malls Mire) and the M74 motorway and West Coast Main Line railway tracks to the north, while its eastern side is close to the Main Street but separated from it by a busy dual carriageway bypass road (part of the A730), built in the early 1970s.

Historically a small network of streets leading west from the Main Street area, becoming increasingly rural in character (Glasgow then expanded in several stages to occupy the countryside between its southern districts and Rutherglen) Rutherglen's war memorial – erected in 1924, designed by Paul Gray with a bronze figure by sculptor George Henry Paulin which originally had a prominent location at the western end of the Main Street – was also left on the 'other' side of the road. The two parts of town are now connected via pedestrian underpasses which are prone to antisocial behaviour and occasional flooding.

Deemed to be an area generally suffering from high levels of deprivation and associated issues, the 'Burnhill Action Group' based at the West Church is a community-led volunteer group working to improve the locality's environmental conditions, recreational opportunities and facilities. The neighbourhood is recognisable for its 'White Flats' housing scheme (two dozen separate 16-apartment blocks, cube-shaped but with sloping roofs, dating from the early 1970s and refurbished externally in 2019 at a cost of £1.6 million) that replaced a development of prefabs. The White Flats development had a standalone pub at its centre, briefly known as the 'Burnhill Bar' but for most of its history named 'The Fairways' which took its name from the fact that the nearby land was once the open fields of Toryglen Golf Club (as well as Blackfaulds Farm) prior to residential use; it replaced a far older hostelry in the area, 'Ye Olde Inn', which had been demolished. The Fairways itself closed in the 2020s following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Burnhill is home to the local branch of the South Lanarkshire Council youth club Universal Connections, and also the Celsius Stadium, home to Rutherglen Glencairn F.C.; The earlier Burnhill Sports Centre, next to the new football ground, was closed and demolished in 2017, although the adjacent municipal football pitches remain in use, and in 2023 Glencairn submitted a planning application for a larger clubhouse facility in this area.

Newfield

Lying directly south of Burnhill, Newfield is a neighbourhood also adjoining Bankhead (Rutherglen) and Toryglen and King's Park (Glasgow) – the boundary with the city is difficult to observe from ground level as it involves houses backing onto one another right up to the border in most places; however, as it is a major administrative divide it is clearly marked on maps, with the street names also changing, e.g. Newfield Place becomes Ardnahoe Avenue. There are limited amenities including a pub, and small grassed areas are dotted around between the housing.

The burn flowing through the area provided power to industries in times past, previously the site of a curling pond opened in 1881 plant nurseries including Glenroyal – now a small social housing development – and the Cathkin Bakery, the production facility for Nairn's (oatcakes and biscuits) until 1978. There was a Newfield House and sawmill, although the largest mansion in the area in times past was Muirbank House – this is long gone, but a pair of cottages from the same era survive almost hidden in woodland amidst far newer housing.

Falling within the Newfield and Bankhead areas is Westhouse, a small 2000s residential estate. It was built in parts of a former quarry, recalled in the names of the nearby street Quarryknowe and in the 'Old Quarry Bar' on Cathcart Road, although the pub – favoured by Rangers F.C. supporters and themed on the club – is located further east towards Main Street. Located on the ground floor of one of the few tenement buildings to survive the redevelopment of this sector of the town, the Quarry Bar is also close to the local Orange Hall, the 20 District Club. The rest of the quarry itself is now occupied by a trading estate, tenants including a non-profit community-focused bicycle repair and retail business.

Nearby is the site of Farie Street School (built 1875), latterly re-titled as St Columbkille's RC Primary from 1957 until its new buildings opened in Clincarthill in 1969; the Farie Street building was demolished in 1971 with the Mill Court housing estate soon built in its place. One block further south at Harriet Street (on a cleared site previously occupied by a timber merchant), plans were submitted in 2024 for the construction of a 'village' of modular accommodation for homeless people.

Bankhead and Quigleys

Bankhead is a neighbourhood located south-west of central Rutherglen, with its housing visibly of various ages owing to the burgh's expansion in stages during the 20th century. In addition to an eponymous primary school on Bankhead Road, there is a small row of shops on Wallace Street beside the Mill Street overbridge leading to Clincarthill, and more on Curtis Avenue approaching Toryglen including the 100 Acres pub – an adaptation of 'Hundred Acre Hill', the historic name of the high ground overlooking the area to the west. There was previously also a small public library which closed in 2010 (although named King's Park Library, it was on the east side of the road and thus administered by South Lanarkshire Council from 1996).

One surviving feature of Bankhead's rural past is the premises of Mitchell's Farm (earlier known as Crosshill Farm) The Bankhead coal mine was a short distance south-west of the farm. The southern end of Bankhead Road terminates at another cluster of small shops and Croftfoot railway station, with a pedestrian footpath leading to the Croftfoot neighbourhood of Glasgow, and the Spittal neighbourhood of Rutherglen. There is another footpath further west at Castlemilk Road, but vehicles cannot use these routes, instead having to travel around Spittal, a detour of 1+1/2 mi from Bankhead Road at Croftfoot Station, or via Menock Road, a detour of 1 mi from Castlemilk Road at King's Park Avenue, to reach the same point on the other side of the tracks.

Once a private estate based around Bankhead House (owned by several generations of the Quigley family, many of whom were doctors), The town's once-important corn mill from which the road name derives was located a short way east of Bankhead House, The mill was powered from the Cityford Burn that flows through most of this side of Rutherglen and is visible here for some distance, although this is somewhat overgrown and distended and is no longer popular with locals for this recreational purpose as it once was. Flooding in the area in 2004 resulted in extensive remediation works to prevent a repeat.

The King's Park Hotel is located to the south of the neighbourhood off Mill Street, while Rutherglen Cemetery's main vehicle entrance, lodge house and Cross of Sacrifice is a short distance further south past the junction of King's Park Avenue (B762), a 1920s wide boulevard which runs westwards parallel to the railway tracks for 1.6 miles into the heart of southern Glasgow at Mount Florida / Battlefield.

Overtoun Park

Main article: Overtoun Park

Rutherglen's main public park is close to the geographical centre of the town. (whose White's Chemical Works also ruined much of the area by reckless dumping of their toxic byproduct). it was once the location of the annual Landemer Day fair and parade, now confined to the Main Street.

The Category B listed fountain in the park was originally located on Main Street: it had been erected in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee but was moved to the park in 1911. The bandstand (1914, also Category B listed) was sited at the west side of the park until it was removed to be used at the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. It was re-sited on a grass area in the centre of the park, but later fell into some disrepair due to a lack of maintenance.

The park's children's play area was extended in the 2010s, and the park's BMX tracks have been maintained, but football pitches were built upon and the tennis courts were turfed over; in 2020, proposals were made by Rutherglen Tennis Club to install covered courts at the same location, which would involve a portion of the land being transferred to a private company.

Environmental charity Grow73 have their base beside Overtoun Park Bowling Club, and a Friends of Overtoun Park is also active.

Burnside, High Crosshill and High Burnside

Main article: Burnside, South Lanarkshire

Burnside is a village within the Rutherglen boundaries which expanded into a leafy commuter suburb. It is surrounded by several mid-20th century housing estates, in some cases modernised

Centred mostly around Stonelaw Road, Burnside has its own set of shops, church, railway station and primary school. It is also home to a supermarket (once the site of a cinema) and hotel with a popular bar (East Kilbride Road). There is also a bowling green, and two sets of tennis courts (previously separate clubs, they are both now operated by Rutherglen LTC). Much of the traditional residential property was built in the early 1900s from blond and red sandstone.

The local park, Stonelaw Woods, that once stood to the east of Stonelaw Road near Greystone Avenue.

High Crosshill is a quiet residential area of wide avenues built on a steep hill between Burnside and Overtoun Park, which has some views on Broomieknowe Road and includes Rutherglen Cemetery. High Burnside is also a residential area, consisting of high ground to the south of Burnside leading to Cathkin Braes with streets of older houses built in several eras. Some of its properties, particularly some of the oldest off Burnside Road, are very large.

Spittal

Spittal is a post-World War II community which is almost an exclave of the town, bordering the Glasgow areas of Croftfoot to the west and Castlemilk to the south with an area of open ground to the east; it is close to the King's Park Avenue / Bankhead neighbourhood within Rutherglen to the north, but disconnected from it by the Cathcart Circle Lines railway tracks. Built on a mound used as farmland (the farmhouse was located at the junction of Carrick Road and Bute Terrace), the estate was constructed in an oval pattern of streets – named after places in or close to Ayrshire – with its primary school built at the highest point at the centre (completed in 1955).

Two small burns run on either side of Spittal's housing, bordered by grassed areas – one burn runs from Castlemilk Park and the other from further east via High Burnside, both originating on the north slopes of the Cathkin Braes; these waters converge north of Spittal, flowing north to Bankhead and on to Shawfield and the Clyde where it is marked as the Cityford Burn, but colloquially known as the Jenny Burn.

In 2016, the area's recreation fields bordering Croftfoot, which had been bequeathed to the community 'in perpetuity' in the 1930s but had been allowed to fall into disrepair over a number of years, were subject to planning applications for new housing.Plans for housing development on former Rutherglen/Croftfoot football parks move a step closer, Daily Record, 2 August 2016 The Croftfield Park development was completed about three years later. A replacement modern AstroTurf football field was added adjacent to the primary school in 2019, although this was several years after the original fields were abandoned and six years after the school itself was replaced (built on its original red blaes pitch), as the old buildings became the temporary home for Bankhead, St Mark's and Burnside Primaries while their facilities were also renewed. Just south of Spittal is Kirkriggs School, a Special educational needs facility which is under Glasgow City Council control.

Blairbeth and Fernhill

Blairbeth

Blairbeth is a small 1950s local authority housing scheme of tenements and modest terraced houses, generally still with the same appearance as at the time of its construction. and small parks, as well as a school, St Mark's RC Primary – its associated church of the same name is located to the south of the housing at the edge of the neighbouring Fernhill area, which has no direct link to Blairbeth for vehicles. The designated non-denominational school for the locality is Spittal Primary, although some children attend Burnside Primary which is equally close.

Also bordering High Crosshill and High Burnside, many of the hillside streets have views over Rutherglen and Glasgow. A large flat grass field to the west of the neighbourhood A section of the estate's old boundary wall is also visible near Blairbeth, although crumbling and dangerous in parts.

Fernhill

Main article: Fernhill, South Lanarkshire

Fernhill is a housing estate originally built in the 1960s, which underwent a great deal of regeneration in the 2010s. as well as by Blairbeth, High Burnside and Cathkin within Rutherglen. Fernhill Road bisects the estate and is where the rebuilt local amenities (convenience stores, community centre children's play area, 5-a-side football fields) are found. The estate also has two churches at either end and a decorative brick entrance wall off Burnside Road.

The Cathkin Relief Road was completed in 2017 at a cost of £21 million to extend Mill Street from Spittal through the informal parkland between Fernhill and Blairbeth/High Burnside to connect with the existing Cathkin Bypass (A730) and alleviate traffic from other local routes including Fernhill Road. In 2019, Fernbrae Meadows was opened to the south of Fernhill; formerly Blairbeth Golf Course, the area is a 20 hectares of semi-natural, managed greenspace.

Springhall and Cathkin

Springhall

Springhall is a self-contained 1960s local authority housing estate, but extensively upgraded between 2019 and 2021. Below the original library is a small set of local shops. and two local schools, St Anthony's RC Primary and Loch Primary, both rebuilt in the 2000s in a mirror image of one another and now share a playground. The schools' playing fields are located on the site of a former loch (Boultrie Loch) which was popular for curling and skating in winter. A stone sign welcomes visitors into the estate from the entrance off the A749 East Kilbride Road opposite a pub, 'Auld Cathkin' (previously the Cathkin Hotel and The Braes), and a long-standing Chinese restaurant. A short way further south on the Springhall side of the A749 is the unusual white castellated villa 'Elpalet', designed by the housebuilder John McDonald (whose companies constructed thousands of new homes in Glasgow in the 1930s, including hundreds in Burnside), to be his own residence. The property is now divided into apartments.

A 13-storey tower block (the only building of such height in Rutherglen, although there are 10 towers of the same design in Cambuslang) looms over the centre of the neighbourhood; it was built on the site of the Springhall mansion house that once occupied the land, then soon afterwards when a contingent of Belgian refugees of World War I were invited to stay there; it was demolished in the 1940s. Adjacent to the tower is a sports pitch in a wire mesh pen.

Cathkin High School, the secondary school affiliated to Loch Primary, is located nearby at the western side of the neighbouring estate of Whitlawburn – administratively this is part of Cambuslang, although shares some amenities with Springhall, with the schemes connected under the main road by a pedestrian underpass. A standalone pre-school facility, Springlaw ELC (intentionally named after both communities as a gesture of unity) was built on a piece of vacant land off Cruachan Road, opening in 2021.

Cathkin

Cathkin is the southernmost and highest part of Rutherglen, largely comprising a post-World War II estate which underwent a good deal of regeneration of its housing stock in the early 21st century. The estate borders the City of Glasgow (the Cathkin Braes Country Park and farmland belonging to the village of Carmunnock, also a civil parish in which Cathkin, along with Fernhill and Spittal, was located historically) and offers views over the Greater Glasgow valley. There is a small wooded area near the neighbourhood's eastern boundary with Whitlawburn. Limited amenities include a primary school with community facilities, and a church (located a short way into Fernhill and designed to serve both communities, as was the school) while local shops off Cathkin Bypass / Cuillins Road feature a supermarket, newsagent and betting shop. Like several parts of the town, a 21st-century stone and metal entrance sign welcomes visitors entering Cathkin from the bypass road.

The grounds of the old Cathkin House mansion now converted to apartments, offer views over Rutherglen and Glasgow beyond. The mansion (now Category B listed) is surrounded by small separate residential developments, primarily of large villas, which also enclose around the buildings of Mid Farm, one of the oldest surviving properties in the area. Burnside Road, an ancient drovers' route winding downhill towards Rutherglen, no longer has a connection for vehicles with Cathkin Road (the B759, running east-west between the A749 dual carriageway and Carmunnock village via Cathkin Braes Park and Cathkin Braes Golf Club). A local landmark at that junction was a thatched cottage which was the childhood home of 19th-century missionary James Gilmour, but it has since been demolished.

Education

Loch Primary and Cathkin Primary are feeder schools for Cathkin High School (built in 1970, rebuilt in 2008), which is located at Whitlawburn just outside the Rutherglen boundaries and is primarily the secondary school for Cambuslang. Conversely, two schools located in Cambuslang (James Aiton and Park View) are feeders for Stonelaw High in Rutherglen, along with Bankhead, Burgh, Burnside, Calderwood and Spittal Primaries within the burgh.

Trinity High (to which St Anthony's, St Mark's and St Columbkille's Primaries are affiliated) is the only Catholic secondary school for both towns, as is the case for Rutherglen High School, the local Additional Support Needs facility which shares a campus with Cathkin High.

All council-run schools in the South Lanarkshire area were rebuilt between the late 1990s and 2010s.

List of schools

2022–23 pupil roll in parentheses.

Non-denominational

• Bankhead Primary School, Bankhead Road, Rutherglen, G73 2BQ (310)
• Burgh Primary School, 41 King Street, Rutherglen, G73 1JY (180)
• Burnside Primary School, Glenlui Avenue, Burnside, Rutherglen, G73 4JE (378)
• Calderwood Primary School, Buchanan Drive, Rutherglen G73 3PQ (435)
• Cathkin Primary School, Burnside Road, Rutherglen, G73 4AA (194)
• Loch Primary School, Lochaber Drive, Springhall, Rutherglen, G73 5HX (203)
• Spittal Primary School, Lochlea Road, Spittal, Rutherglen G73 4QJ (151)
• Stonelaw High School, 140 Calderwood Road, Rutherglen, G73 3BP (1248)

Roman Catholic

• St Anthony's Primary School, Lochaber Drive, Springhall, Rutherglen, G73 5HX (161)
• St Columbkille's Primary School, Clincarthill Road, Rutherglen, G73 2LG (279)
• St Mark's Primary School, Kirkriggs Avenue, Blairbeth, Rutherglen, G73 4LY (158)
• Trinity High School, Glenside Drive, Eastfield, Rutherglen, G73 3LW (1186)

Private schools

• Fernhill School, Fernbrae Avenue, Fernhill, Rutherglen, Glasgow, G73 4SG (230 – 5 to 18)

Sport

Rutherglen Glencairn F.C. compete in the . The club was formed in 1896 and has won the famous Scottish Junior Cup on four occasions (1901–02, 1918–19, 1926–27, 1938–39). Glencairn moved into a brand new stadium (New Southcroft Park, currently sponsored by Celsius Cooling and renamed as The Celsius Stadium) situated in the Burnhill area of Rutherglen in 2009 following the demolition of the old ground (Southcroft Park), where they had played for over 100 years. The Glencairn Venue building on Glasgow Road, which is on part of the old site – the rest now being under the M74 motorway – is owned by the football club, although the company operating in the building is a separate entity. In the same season as their move, Glencairn won the West of Scotland League Central District First Division with a record points total, followed by claiming the West of Scotland Super League First Division at the first attempt in 2009–10. They won the latter competition again in 2018–19 to access the top tier of Junior football in the west of Scotland, and were runners-up in the Scottish Junior Cup in 2022–23 Scottish Junior Cup.

Clyde Football Club played in the area at Shawfield Stadium for 88 years before moving on in 1986, eventually settling in the former new town of Cumbernauld. The immediate area could be considered the cradle of Scottish football: Hampden Park, the national stadium and home to Scotland's oldest football club Queen's Park is close by to the west along with Cathkin Park, the home of the defunct Third Lanark; not far to the north is Celtic Park, the home of Celtic – all of which (apart from Clyde's former ground) are located in the City of Glasgow.

In addition to men's amateur teams (such as Stonelaw AFC (current) and formerly Rutherglen AFC of the Scottish Amateur Football League), the town also had a women's football club, Rutherglen Ladies, which was formed in 1921 and played at a high level throughout the 20s and 30s. More recently Rutherglen Girls FC was founded in 2012 and features three age group teams plus a senior women's team competing in the SWFL, Central/South East Division.

Coats Park, home of Cambuslang RFC (rugby union) is on the periphery of Burnside; the local athletics club Cambuslang Harriers is also based there. There are council-run football facilities as well as a 25-metre swimming pool and gym at South Lanarkshire Lifestyle Eastfield (next to Trinity High School), and a GAA field, Pearse Park (disused for several years in the early 21st century), is also in Eastfield. In Shawfield there is an indoor trampoline facility, while Topgolf opened a driving range in Farme Cross (adjacent to the motorway) in 2022; traditional golf has been played at the Cathkin Braes club on the southern edge of Rutherglen since the 1880s.

Notable people

Several notable persons born between 1978 and 1998 are 'from' Rutherglen per their birth certificates, but have only a tenuous link to the town due to being delivered at Rutherglen Maternity Hospital which operated between these years; many children born here would have grown up in Glasgow, East Kilbride or elsewhere.

Artists, actors and media personalities

• Dave Anderson, actor, musician and playwright
• Janet Brown, actress and comedian, known for her impressions of Margaret Thatcher
• Steven Campbell, artist
• Andy Cameron, comedian
• Robbie Coltrane, actor and comedian
• Dougie Donnelly, sports TV presenter
• Gary Erskine, comic artist
• Jack Jester (born Lee Greig), professional wrestler, former ICW heavyweight champion
• Jayd Johnson, actor – one of her major roles in The Field of Blood (TV series) was adapted from novels (by Denise Mina) which are largely set in Rutherglen
• Scott Kyle, actor
• George Logan, Hinge and Bracket television comedy double act
• Mamie Baird (née Baird), journalist; married TV broadcaster Magnus Magnusson, their family home was in the town and was where children Jon Magnusson and TV news presenter Sally Magnusson grew up
• Alistair MacLean, television script writer, teacher at Gallowflat High School
• Tom McGrath, playwright and jazz pianist
• Matt McGinn, folk singer, born in the Calton but lived in Rutherglen for many years, wrote songs which mention Rutherglen such as "Ru'glen Jean" and "Rosy Anna"
• Edwin Morgan, poet
• Frank Quitely, (born Vincent Deighan), comic artist
• Richard Rankin, actor and comedian (born Richard Harris), starred in popular TV shows such as Burnistoun, Taggart and Outlander
• Audrey Tait, drummer for hip-hop band Hector Bizerk and rock band Franz Ferdinand
• Dougie Thomson, the bass guitarist for Supertramp from 1972 to 1988
• Midge Ure of the band Ultravox

Politicians

• Marie Cassidy, state pathologist for Ireland
• David Fleming, politician and judge
• Clare Haughey, SNP MSP (for Rutherglen)
• Ged Killen, Labour MP (for Rutherglen)
• John Mason, SNP MSP
• Baron Tommy McAvoy, Labour politician, House of Lords Life peer
• John Campbell White, also known as Baron Overtoun / Lord Overtoun,

Sportspersons

• Steve Archibald, Scotland international footballer, clubs included Tottenham, Barcelona
• Archie Baird, footballer (Aberdeen) and World War II POW
• Alec Bennett (Celtic, Rangers and Scotland footballer)
• Bob Davidson, footballer (Dundee)
• Paul di Giacomo, footballer (Kilmarnock)
• Simon Donnelly, international footballer (Celtic)
• Stuart Dougal, football referee
• Jimmy Dunn, footballer (Leeds United)
• Scott Forrest, Commonwealth Games rugby international
• Allan Forsyth, footballer (Dundee United)
• Mary Gilchrist, chess player
• Tommy Grozier, footballer (Plymouth Argyle)
• Bobby Harvey footballer (Clyde)
• Brogan Hay, footballer (Glasgow City, Rangers)
• Drew Henry, snooker player
• Harry Haddock, international footballer (Clyde)
• Niall Hopper, footballer (Queen's Park)
• Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer
• Colin Jackson (Rangers and Scotland defender), born in Glasgow and raised in Aberdeen but lived in Rutherglen for most of his life
• Thomas Leather, Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer
• Stevan McAleer, racing driver
• Collette McCallum, international footballer for Australia
• Amy McDonald, international women's footballer
• Jimmy McMenemy, Celtic and Scotland footballer (won 11 league titles and 7 Scottish Cups)
• Stephen McKeown, footballer (Partick Thistle)
• Brian McPhee, footballer (Airdrie)
• Bobby Murdoch, Celtic midfielder (one of the Lisbon Lions); in 2016 a plaque and display was unveiled at the Town Hall honouring his achievements
• Billy Murdoch, brother of Bobby, played for Kilmarnock
• John Moir, American basketball champion
• Jack Mowat, football referee, oversaw 12 domestic cup finals and the 1960 European Cup Final
• John Rae, international footballer (Third Lanark)
• Willie Robb, international footballer (Rangers)
• Peter Roney, footballer (Bristol Rovers)
• Steven Saunders, international footballer (Motherwell)
• Sandy Stewart, footballer (Airdrie)
• Dick Strang, footballer (Darlington)
• Alan Trouten, footballer
• Duncan Weir, Scotland international rugby union player, began career at Cambuslang Rugby Club

Others

• John Dickson Covenanting field preacher and prisoner for six years on the Bass Rock
• William Gemmell Cochran, statistician
• Jonathan Saunders, fashion designer
• James White, lawyer and a partner in J & J White Chemicals (statue in Cathedral Square, Glasgow)

References

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• Rutherglen Lore: Story of an Eight Hundred Year-old Royal Burgh, 1126-1926 by William Ross Shearer, printed in 1922

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44. Kerr, Aiden. (9 June 2017). "Labour gain first Scottish seat from SNP in election". [[STV Group (Scotland).
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48. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/boundary-changes-create-new-rutherglen-2588606 Boundary changes create new Rutherglen seat, but area remains in Glasgow region], Daily Record, 2 June 2010
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50. "Rutherglen Central and North". [[Police Scotland]].
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53. (4 May 2017). "Ward map 13 - Cambuslang West". [[South Lanarkshire Council]].
54. (4 May 2017). "Map ward 14 - Cambuslang East". [[South Lanarkshire Council]].
55. [http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/rutherglen-cambuslang-communities-top-list-8784233 Rutherglen and Cambuslang communities at top of list of most deprived areas in Scotland], Edel Kenealy, Daily Record, 8 September 2016
56. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/shock-stats-show-rutherglen-more-13754744.amp Shock stats show Rutherglen has more unemployment, highest rate of alcohol and drug admissions and more social work referrals than anywhere else in South Lanarkshire], Daily Record, 19 December 2018
57. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/first-bus-glasgow-cambuslang-fares-10487847 Bus passengers in Cambuslang and Rutherglen having to pay nearly double what they do in East Kilbride], Daily Record, 25 May 2017
58. (1 January 2018). "Frequency Guide". [[First Glasgow]].
59. (1 January 2018). "Glasgow Network Map". [[First Glasgow]].
60. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-made-air-quality-management-6979699 Rutherglen made an Air Quality Management Area after pollution levels exceed national guidelines], Daily Record, 14 December 2015
61. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/impact-m74-extension-through-rutherglen-8306982.amp Impact of M74 extension through Rutherglen and Cambuslang continues to divide five years on], Daily Record, 30 June 2016
62. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-named-as-pollution-hotspot-11983953 Rutherglen named as pollution hotspot], Daily Record, 7 February 2018
63. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-town-centre-listed-one-21379434 Rutherglen town centre listed as one of South Lanarkshire's worst areas for air pollution], Daily Record, 28 January 2020
64. [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=55.82978&lon=-4.22131&layers=4&b=1 Military Maps of Scotland (18th century): Roy Lowlands, 1752-55], Explore georeferenced maps ([[National Library of Scotland]])
65. [https://maps.nls.uk/view/74400128 Northern Part of Lanarkshire. Southern Part. Top section], [[John Thomson (cartographer). John Thomson]]'s Atlas of Scotland, 1832 ([[National Library of Scotland]])
66. [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=55.8292&lon=-4.2150&layers=5&b=1 OS Six-inch 1st edition, 1843-1882], Explore georeferenced maps ([[National Library of Scotland]])
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68. tree-lined Main Street and its environs, which have been designated a conservation area since 2008.[https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/12667/rutherglen_conservation_area_character_appraisal.pdf Rutherglen Conservation Area: Character Appraisal], [[South Lanarkshire Council]], 2008
69. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/campaign-return-popular-rutherglen-webcam-11721971.amp Campaign for return of popular Rutherglen webcam], Daily Record, 19 December 2017
70. Category A-listed]] building was refurbished and extended around 2005[http://www.honeymanjack.co.uk/portfolio/rutherglen-town-hall/ Portfolio: Rutherglen Town Hall], Honeyman Jack & Robertson Chartered Architects
71. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/how-rutherglen-town-hall-brought-5270577.amp How Rutherglen Town Hall was brought back to its best], Daily Record, 4 March 2015
72. [http://www.whiterose.scot/rutherglen-town-hall/ Rutherglen Town Hall: 10 Reasons To Choose This Scottish Wedding Venue], White Rose Wedding Venues
73. [https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/directory_record/7392/licensing_and_registration_office_-_rutherglen Licensing and Registration Office - Rutherglen], [[South Lanarkshire Council]]
74. (13 November 2019). "The Historical Background to the Site of Rutherglen Old Parish Church". Rutherglen Old Parish Church.
75. The mediaeval church was said to be the location where [[William Wallace]] completed a peace treaty between England and Scotland in 1297, and where [[John de Menteith]] subsequently agreed a pact to betray Wallace in 1305, events which are marked by plaques and commemorated annually by Scottish nationalists.[https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/william-wallace-betrayal-spot-rutherglen-be-marked-1484911 William Wallace betrayal spot in Rutherglen to be marked], The Scotsman, 22 January 2016
76. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/scottish-nationalist-group-hold-lanarkshire-27687992 Scottish nationalist group hold Lanarkshire event to remember betrayal of William Wallace], Jonathan Geddes, Daily Record, 9 August 2022
77. [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200398021-20-24-queen-street-and-115-king-street-masonic-hall-rutherglen#.XmXESmaIDJU 20-24 Queen Street and 115 King Street, Masonic Hall], British Listed Buildings
78. [http://www.glesga.ukpals.com/churches/masons116.htm Lodge Rutherglen Royal Arch 116], Glesca Pals
79. [http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/scott.htm Carnegie Libraries: Scottish Style] {{Webarchive. link. (18 October 2018 , Scotcities)
80. with its replacement inside an existing shop further east along the Main Street).[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-post-office-set-finally-13680661 Rutherglen post office finally open again], Daily Record, 3 December 2018
81. [https://rutherglenheritage.wordpress.com/page/4/ Historic Library Tour: Sat 8th August 2015 2-3pm], Rutherglen Heritage
82. [http://www.photos.tennent.org.uk/lore/ Rutherglen Lore], Tennent Family Website
83. [https://rutherglenheritage.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/new-display-opening-william-r-shearer-rutherglen-lore/ New Display : William R Shearer & Rutherglen Lore], Rutherglen Heritage Society, 27 October 2015
84. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-salvation-army-major-reckons-6024196.amp Rutherglen Salvation Army Major reckons organisation is just as relevant now as when it was started], Daily Record, 12 July 2015
85. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/45073/glasgow-Rutherglen-Castle Glasgow, Rutherglen Castle], Canmore
86. [http://www.sllcmuseumscollections.co.uk/search.do;jsessionid=WCeVQugzk1JfIXtaZ3mRT2Ij?id=139394&db=object&page=1&view=detail Museums: Browse the Collection] (King Street), South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture
87. [http://www.graemekirkwood.co.uk/Prewar2/Rutherglen.htm Burgh of Rutherglen Fire Brigade], The History of Scottish Fire Brigades
88. previously serving as a school,[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/sciaf-mark-50th-anniversary-st-5015203 SCIAF to mark 50th anniversary at St Columbkilles], Daily Record, 25 January 2015
89. [http://www.crgp.co.uk/case-studies/st-columbkilles/ St Columbkilles Church Hall, Rutherglen], CRGP Limited
90. [http://www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/scotland/rutherglen.html Rutherglen cinemas], Scottish Cinemas and Theatres Project
91. [https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/LKS/Rutherglen/EastChurch East Church, Rutherglen, Reformed Presbyterian Church], GENUKI
92. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/228342/glasgow-rutherglen-18-farmeloan-road-rutherglen-east-church Glasgow, Rutherglen, 18 Farmeloan Road, Rutherglen East Church], Canmore
93. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/talks-could-lead-permanent-base-3506990 Talks could lead to permanent base for Rutherglen community trust], Daily Record, 8 May 2014
94. [https://www.whatsonlanarkshire.co.uk/listings/number-18/ Number 18], What's on Lanarkshire
95. its halls were occupied from the late 1930s by the Rutherglen Repertory Theatre, established by Glaswegian actress [[Molly Urquhart]] who set up in the town for no particular reason apart from the venue being available. The halls are now apartments (having been the 'Clyde Club' until a 1990s fire) and the theatre company have their premises a few blocks south on Hamilton Road, with many of their performances held at the renovated Town Hall.[https://www.rutherglenrep.org.uk/history History], Rutherglen Repertory Theatre
96. and was overlooked to the south by 'Royal Burgh House', an office block built in 1998, originally occupied by the local authority which subsequently relocated the services to [[East Kilbride]] and Cambuslang[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglens-planning-building-standards-roads-2574739 Rutherglen’s Planning, Building Standards and Roads Office move to East Kilbride], Daily Record, 23 March 2011
97. [http://www.showcase.co.uk/property/380-King-Street/Scotland/Rutherglen/10305112 Royal Burgh House - 380 King Street], Showcase Property
98. [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-63253886 Fire crews tackle blaze at former council building in Rutherglen], BBC News, 14 October 2022
99. [http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic6017.html Rutherglen Evangelistic Institute], The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project, 22 December 2010
100. [http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1909_Glasgow_Men/Overtoun_Right_Hon_Baron.htm Right Hon. Baron Overtoun], 100 Glasgow Men (1909)
101. [https://www.frenchpolishes.com/history.htm History], Smith and Rodger Ltd
102. [http://www.scotlandswar.co.uk/rutherglen_institute.html Rutherglen Evangelistic Institute], Scotland's War
103. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/wwi-letter-sent-rutherglen-troops-13521752 WWI letter sent to Rutherglen troops in 1916 is unearthed ahead of Armistice Day], Daily Record, 2 November 2018
104. [https://premierconstructionnews.com/2011/12/23/site-of-former-burgh-primary-school-will-soon-be-open-for-business/ Site of former Burgh Primary School will soon be open for business], Premier Construction News, 23 December 2011
105. [https://www.urbanrealm.com/buildings/679/Burgh_Business_Centre.html Burgh Business Centre], Urban Realm, 2012
106. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-nursery-overwhelmed-response-community-3208636 Rutherglen nursery overwhelmed by response of community], Daily Record, 6 March 2014
107. [https://www.pressreader.com/uk/rutherglen-reformer/20180321/282291025768977 Memories of the Academy], Rutherglen Reformer, 21 March 2018, via PressReader
108. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/no-parking-rutherglen-town-hall-2616171 No parking at Rutherglen town hall], Daily Record, 11 February 2009
109. [https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSD00520 Rutherglen UP Church (Glasgow University Library, Theology, 1875)], The Glasgow Story
110. was given a makeover in 2014 and renamed the ''Rutherglen Exchange Shopping Centre'';[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/cool-welcome-in-rutherglen-arcade-12180534 Cool welcome in Rutherglen arcade], Daily Record, 14 March 2018
111. [http://rutherglenexchange.com/shops.php Our Stores], Rutherglen Exchange Shopping Centre
112. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/new-rutherglen-business-centre-officially-2567428 New Rutherglen business centre is officially opened], Daily Record, 17 July 2011
113. [https://www.urbanrealm.com/news/4241/Refurbishment_completes_on_Rutherglen%E2%80%99s_Greenhill_Court.html Refurbishment completes on Rutherglen's Greenhill Court], Urban Realm, 16 June 2013
114. [https://corporate.lovell.co.uk/what-we-do/case-studies/greenhill-court-rutherglen/ Case Study: Greenhill Court, Rutherglen], Lovell Partnerships
115. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-flats-not-troubled-block-10692491.amp Rutherglen flats not a "troubled block" despite reported violence, drug abuse and bullets], Daily Record, 21 June 2017
116. as well as the Royal Burgh Bakery,[https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11981157.adding-heritage-ingredient-to-the-taste-of-success/ Adding heritage ingredient to the taste of success], Glasgow Herald, 3 February 1990
117. [https://www.paterson-arran.com/about-us Our World], Paterson Arran
118. [https://thecelticstar.com/football-without-fans-bobby-murdoch-rutherglen-vogue-csc/ Football Without Fans – Bobby Murdoch Rutherglen Vogue CSC], The Celtic Star, 13 December 2023
119. [https://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/linnodee.html Linn O Dee], Old Glasgow Pubs
120. [https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pub-histories/scotland/south-lanarkshire/an-ruadh-ghleann-rutherglen An Ruadh-Ghleann], [[Wetherspoons]]
121. [https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/areas/rutherglen/strathclyde/ Pubs in Rutherglen], Pubs Galore
122. [http://refreshingbeer.blogspot.com/2012/12/up-and-down-main-street.html Up and down the main street], ''I might have a glass of beer'', 16 December 2012
123. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/how-great-storm-1968-impacted-11842257 How the Great Storm of 1968 impacted on Rutherglen and Cambuslang], Daily Record, 12 January 2018
124. [https://www.randcha.co.uk/page/about-us About Us…], Rutherglen and Cambuslang Housing Association
125. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-woman-who-helped-start-11784732 Rutherglen woman who helped start housing association honoured by Queen], Daily Record, 2 January 2018
126. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/cladding-grenfell-south-lanarkshire-council-10737257.amp Rutherglen and Cambuslang high-rise residents told cladding is not the same as Grenfell], Daily Record, 7 July 2017
127. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-cambuslang-facing-huge-housing-9816916.amp Rutherglen and Cambuslang facing huge housing crisis], Daily Record, 21 February 2017
128. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/artistic-mural-rutherglens-rich-history-13622152.amp Artistic mural on Rutherglen's rich history is unveiled at train station], Daily Record, 21 November 2018
129. [http://www.spanglefish.com/thebusybees/index.asp?pageid=216199 Home], The Busy Bees
130. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-mosque-promises-sort-out-6767095 Rutherglen mosque promises to sort out parking problems outside their building], Daily Record, 6 November 2015
131. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/throwback-thursday-new-st-columbkilles-7577582 Throwback Thursday: New St Columbkille's Primary opened its doors...], Daily Record, 26 March 2016
132. [https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/11/children-were-abused-for-decades-in-catholic-homes-scottish-inquiry-finds Children were abused for decades in Catholic homes, Scottish inquiry finds], The Guardian, 11 October 2018
133. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/gran-breaks-65-year-silence-13510529.amp Gran breaks 65 year silence on horrifying abuse by nuns in Rutherglen kids' home], Daily Record, 31 October 2018
134. [https://www2.gov.scot/resource/doc/47043/0013543.pdf For Glasgow’s Greater Good], NHS Scotland, December 2003
135. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/83884/glasgow-dalmarnock-road-dalmarnock-bridge Record and images for Dalmarnock Bridge], [[Canmore (database). Canmore]]
136. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/165928/glasgow-dalmarnock-eastern-railway-bridge Record and images for Dalmarnock Railway Bridge (1897)], [[Canmore (database). Canmore]]
137. [https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSB00269&t=2 Farme Castle (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections, Dougan Collection, 1870)], The Glasgow Story
138. [https://www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/blog/the-mysteries-of-the-farme-colliery-engine/ The Mysteries of the Farme Colliery Engine], Justin Parkes, [[North Lanarkshire Council]]
139. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/musuem-appeals-info-rutherglen-farme-2587439 Museum appeals for info on Rutherglen Farme Colliery], Daily Record, 14 July 2010
140. [https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSE00061 Newcomen engine (Museum of Transport, c. 1905)], The Glasgow Story
141. [http://scottishmining.co.uk/374.html 1910 Housing Conditions of Miners: Farme Coal Co, Ltd, Rutherglen], Scottish Mining Website
142. [https://rutherglenheritage.wixsite.com/website-46/farme-cross-history Farme Cross], Rutherglen Heritage Society, 2018
143. [https://rutherglenheritage.wixsite.com/website-46/royalty-boundary-stones Rutherglen's Royalty Boundary Stones], Rutherglen Heritage Society, 2018
144. [https://rutherglenheritage.wixsite.com/website-46/a-z-of-rutherglen-then-and-now An A to Z of Rutherglen Then and Now], Bill McLennan, Rutherglen Heritage Society, 2018
145. [http://www.josephingleby.com/public-sculpture/ Public Sculpture], JosephIngleby.com
146. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sega_gary/albums/72157629778853208 Rutherglen: Farme Cross - May 2012], Album at [[Flickr]], May 2012
147. [http://www.glesga.ukpals.com/streets/dalmarnock-powerstation.htm Dalmarnock Road Power Station], Glesga Pals
148. [https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSE01299&t=2 Dalmarnock Power Station (1955)], The Glasgow Story
149. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-32491066 Homes planned for Dalmarnock Power Station site], BBC News, 28 April 2015
150. [http://parkheadhistory.com/industrail-parkhead/ Industrial East End], Parkhead History
151. [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/13266502.shopping-centres-industrial-past-remembered/ Shopping centre's industrial past remembered], Evening Times, 28 October 2013
152. [https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Farme_Colliery_Engine Farme Colliery Engine], Grace's Guide
153. [https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/caledonian-pottery-co-ltd-rutherglen/ Caledonian Pottery Co Ltd, Rutherglen], Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry
154. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/hartleys-history-in-rutherglen-2567716 Hartley's history in Rutherglen], Daily Record, 27 July 2011
155. [https://rutherglenheritage.wixsite.com/website-46/caledonian-pottery-ltd Caledonian Pottery Ltd], Rutherglen Heritage Society, 2020
156. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-pottery-show-museum-2545422 Rutherglen pottery on show at museum], Daily Record, 28 November 2012
157. [https://headlandarchaeology.com/project/m74-completion-project-glasgow/ M74 Completion Project, Glasgow], Headland Archaeology. Retrieved 9 September 2021
158. [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/lifestyle/14275144.marking-100-years-of-success/ Marking 100 years of success], Evening Times, 13 February 2016
159. [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen088.htm 88. James Stirling], Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men (1886)
160. [http://www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1909_Glasgow_Men/Alexander_Hugh.htm Hugh Alexander], Index of Glasgow Men (1909)
161. [https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Unicone_Co Unicone Co], Grace's Guide
162. [https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/James_Menzies_and_Co James Menzies and Co], Grace's Guide
163. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/259978/glasgow-dalmarnock-road-phoenix-tube-works Glasgow, Dalmarnock Road, Phoenix Tube Works], Canmore
164. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/143910/glasgow-rutherglen-119-cambuslang-road-eastfield-ropery Glasgow, Rutherglen, 119 Cambuslang Road, Eastfield Ropery], Canmore
165. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/90469/glasgow-1-lloyd-street-clyde-patent-wire-rope-works Glasgow, 1 Lloyd Street, Clyde Patent Wire Rope Works], Canmore
166. [http://www.sllcmuseumscollections.co.uk/search.do?view=detail&page=1&id=139986&db=object Museums : Browse the Collection : image of Farme Cross looking along Dalmarnock Road, with the Clyde Patent Rope Wire Works (Allan Whyte & Co. Ltd.) on the left - 24 March 1925], South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture
167. [https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Clyde_Paper_Co Clyde Paper Co], Grace's Guide
168. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/172686/glasgow-clyde-paper-mill Glasgow, Clyde Paper Mill], Canmore
169. 9781445624013
170. [https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/rutherglen-brickworks-farme-cross-rutherglen-south-lanarkshire/ Rutherglen Brickworks, Farme Cross, Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire], Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry
171. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/monogram-site-proposal-could-bring-2548253 Monogram site proposal could bring over 200 jobs to Rutherglen], Daily Record, 8 August 2012
172. [https://www.radiomuseum.co.uk/car-radio.html Ekco CR32 Car Radio], Allan's Virtual Radio Museum
173. [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19030415.2.34 Disastrous Inundation at Rutherglen], Ashburton Guardian, 15 April 1903, via Papers Past ([[National Library of New Zealand]]
174. [https://www2.sepa.org.uk/frmstrategies/pdf/pva/PVA_11_14_Full.pdf Rutherglen (Potentially Vulnerable Area 11/14)], Clyde and Loch Lomond Local Plan District, [[Scottish Environment Protection Agency]], 2014
175. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/172585/glasgow-5-9-dalmarnock-road-sanmex-chemical-works Glasgow, 5-9 Dalmarnock Road, Sanmex Chemical Works], Canmore
176. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-dealt-major-jobs-blow-8406743 Rutherglen dealt major jobs blow as Sanmex announce plans to leave the Burgh], Daily Record, 13 July 2016
177. [https://speysidedistillery.co.uk/speyside-wins-funds-for-asian-expansion/ Speyside wins funds for Asian expansion], [[The Speyside distillery]]
178. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/huge-housing-development-planned-former-12617110 Huge housing development planned for former distillery site in Rutherglen], Daily Record, 29 May 2018
179. [https://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/commercial/details/41651595?search_identifier=59bb3ae4d075869c5e45cf5e52167696 Land for sale in 5-21, Dalmarnock Road, Rutherglen, Glasgow, Scotland G73], PrimeLocation
180. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/mcdonalds-plan-rutherglen-opening-latter-4972611.amp McDonald's plan Rutherglen opening in latter part of 2015], Daily Record, 14 January 2015
181. [https://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/commercial/details/54482596?search_identifier=3b8a6fc9edbd15e198560b7c8d196751 Commercial property for sale in Clyde Gateway Trade Park, Rutherglen, Glasgow G73], PrimeLocation
182. [http://www.clydegateway.com/economic-regeneration/rutherglen-links/ Rutherglen Links], Clyde Gateway
183. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-20594455 Regeneration plans for business sites near Rutherglen], BBC News, 4 December 2012
184. [https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/13244718.15m-business-district-gets-the-green-light/ £15m business district gets the green light], Evening Times, 6 December 2012
185. [http://www.rutherglenlinks.com/ Welcome], Rutherglen Links Business Park
186. [https://www.scotsman.com/regions/glasgow-and-strathclyde/ford-retail-brings-scottish-hub-rutherglen-business-park-96754 Ford Retail brings Scottish hub to Rutherglen business park], The Scotsman, 28 February 2019
187. [https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/article/rutherglen-links-business-park-enters-final-stages Rutherglen Links Business Park enters final stages], Scottish Construction Now, 26 June 2019
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262. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/more-sickening-sectarian-graffiti-painted-11329460.amp More sickening sectarian graffiti painted in Rutherglen underpass], Daily Record, 12 October 2017
263. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/police-meet-politicians-council-target-24893092 Police to meet with politicians and council to target anti-social behaviour following underpass assaults], Daily Record, 3 September 2021
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265. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/cops-vow-crack-down-underage-11369530.amp Cops vow to crack down on underage drinkers in Burnhill], Jonathan Geddes, Daily Record, 19 October 2017
266. [http://www.locator.org.uk/organisations/burnhill-action-group-0 Burnhill Action Group], Locator (Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire)
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268. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/thugs-making-life-miserable-rutherglens-10293596 Thugs making life miserable for Rutherglen's Burnhill community], Daily Record, 26 April 2017
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283. [http://www.bainhouse.uk/showmedia.php?mediaID=909 Muirbank House, Bankhead, Rutherglen Home of Thomas Nelson & Margaret Blair Ross], Our Roots
284. [https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/49934/ The Old Quarry Bar, Rutherglen, Glasgow], Pubs Galore
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286. [https://www.biketown.org.uk/about-us About Us], Camglen Bike Town
287. Old Rutherglen, Rhona Wilson (Stenlake Publishing, 1996) {{ISBN. 9781872074726
288. [https://www.social-bite.co.uk/new-social-bite-village-project-unveiled-for-south-lanarkshire/ New Social Bite Village Project Unveiled for South Lanarkshire], [[Social Bite]], 25 April 2024
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290. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/newly-built-88million-bankhead-primary-school-5813826 Newly-built £8.8million Bankhead Primary School is a real class act], Daily Record, 9 June 2015
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294. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/overtoun-park-should-stripped-name-14192695 Overtoun Park should be stripped of its name, MP says], Daily Record, 27 March 2019
295. [https://rutherglenheritage.wixsite.com/website-46/landemer-day Landemer Day], Rutherglen Heritage Society, 2019
296. [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200377322-mill-street-overtoun-park-bandstand-rutherglen#.XlzxemaIDJU Mill Street, Overtoun Park, Bandstand], British Listed Buildings
297. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-residents-want-overtoun-park-6066808 Rutherglen residents want Overtoun Park bandstand returned to its former glory amid claims of neglect], Daily Record, 15 July 2015
298. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/new-play-equipment-set-overtoun-2356575 New play equipment set for Overtoun Park in Rutherglen], Daily Record, 10 October 2013
299. [https://www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/news/ruglen-ropewalk-in-overtoun-park Ruglen Ropewalk in Overtoun Park], Greenspace Scotland, 7 November 2018
300. [https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/directory_record/584823/overtoun_park Overtoun Park], [[South Lanarkshire Council]]
301. [http://www.discoverglasgow.org/parks-overtoun-park/4573052327 Overtoun Park], Discover Glasgow
302. {{usurped
303. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/rutherglen-tennis-club-achieve-milestone-25109051 Rutherglen Tennis Club achieve 'milestone' decision, but face many hurdles], Andy McGilvray, Daily Record, 30 September 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2021
304. [http://www.friendsofovertounpark.info/tennis-court-proposal.htmlRutherglen Lawn Tennis Club {{! Overtoun Courts Proposal], Friends of Overtoun Park. Retrieved 23 November 2021
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307. which are within Rutherglen but not considered to be parts of Burnside as they were built to provide homes for people from other areas of the town, and from Cambuslang, who needed to be re-housed. In contrast to affluent Burnside, parts of these estates are considered to be troubled by poverty and related issues, as asserted by several versions of the [[Scottish index of multiple deprivation]].[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-cambuslang-areas-among-scotlands-21484294 Rutherglen and Cambuslang areas among Scotland's poorest, according to Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation stats], Daily Record, 12 February 2020
308. [https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/cp/info/28/neighbourhood_profiles/54/neighbourhood_profiles/2 Neighbourhood profiles: Ward 11 - Rutherglen South], [[South Lanarkshire]] Community Planning Partnership
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310. "Rhul, Glasgow".
311. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglens-movie-hall-past-2604252 Rutherglen's movie hall past], Daily Record, 2 September 2009
312. {{usurped
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314. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/sewage-work-project-rutherglen-could-10298094.amp Sewage work project in Rutherglen could see 11 months of disruption for residents], Daily Record, 2 May 2017
315. [https://rutherglenheritage.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/stonelaw-woods-5.jpg?w=1576 Stonelaw Woods 5], Rutherglen Heritage Project
316. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-news-burnside-filling-station-8779459 Rutherglen news: Burnside filling station site subject to planning application], Daily Record, 9 September 2016
317. [https://www.scottishcastlesassociation.com/news/past-present/stonelaw-tower.htm Stonelaw Tower], Scottish Castles Association, 8 December 2014
318. [https://www.scottishcastlesassociation.com/news/news-features/engine-house.htm Tower House or Engine House? Inside Rais and Stonelaw Towers...], Scottish Castles Association, 10 April 2018
319. [https://canmore.org.uk/collection/1452115 General view, Burnside, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1937. Oblique aerial photograph, taken facing south], [[Canmore (database). Canmore]]
320. [http://earlyooters.blogspot.com/2011/09/7-september-cathkin-braes.html 7 September Cathkin Braes], Adventures of the Early Ooters, 13 September 2011
321. situated exactly on the local authority boundary at Croftfoot.[https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-pub-boss-level-2-20712846.amp Glasgow pub boss on Level 2 boundary edge furious at being unable to trade], Glasgow Live, 31 May 2021
322. [https://canmore.org.uk/site/44894/glasgow-Castlemilk-House Glasgow, Castlemilk House], Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide, Sam Small, 2008 (quoted at [[Canmore (database). Canmore]])
323. [https://rutherglenheritage.wixsite.com/website-46/cityford-burn The Cityford Burn], Rutherglen Heritage Society
324. [https://www.pressreader.com/uk/rutherglen-reformer/20170913/281724089713988 Houses are selling fast at Croftfield Park], Daily Record, 13 September 2017, via PressReader
325. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/plans-new-spittal-primary-given-2558641 Plans for new Spittal Primary are given the go-ahead], Daily Record, 25 January 2012
326. [https://www.pressreader.com/uk/rutherglen-reformer/20161123/281805693526368 Old Spittal to go], Rutherglen Reformer, 23 November 2016, via [[PressReader]]
327. [http://www.kirkriggs-pri.glasgow.sch.uk/PlainText/PlainText.aspx?SectionId=2ba22745-b0af-462d-8616-d675d6ab42f4 Welcome to our school], Kirkriggs School
328. [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200377602-croftfoot-road-mill-street-gatepiers-formerly-to-castlemilk-house-glasgow#.XnAL27enzN5 Croftfoot Road, Mill Street, Gatepiers, Formerly to Castlemilk House], British Listed Buildings
329. [https://www.sfha.co.uk/news-article/cassiltoun-housing-association-wins-prize-for-their-work-at-castlemilk-woods Cassiltoun Housing Association wins prize for their work at Castlemilk Woods], Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, 18 August 2016
330. [https://www.cassiltoun.org.uk/castlemilk-park/ Castlemilk Park Project], Cassiltoun Housing Association
331. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/election-special-rutherglen-south-demands-10211238.amp Election special: Rutherglen South demands continued regeneration], Daily Record, 12 April 2017
332. [http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/football-winning-fight-against-gangs-8930733 Football is winning fight against gangs in Rutherglen], Daily Record, 29 September 2016
333. [https://www.stanthonystmark.org.uk/contact-us/st-marks-catholic-church-rutherglen/ St Mark’s Catholic church Rutherglen], St Anthony and St Mark parish
334. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-fernhill-cathkins-new-minister-9658881.amp Rutherglen: Fernhill and Cathkin's new minister speaks on starting work at the parish, her unexpected road to the ministry and surprising media attention], Jonathan Geddes, Daily Record, 20 January 2017
335. (28 February 2017). "Cathkin Relief Road fully opened to the public". [[Evening Times]].
336. [https://www.idverde.co.uk/portfolio/cathkin-relief-road/ Cathkin Relief Road], idverde UK
337. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/cathkin-relief-road-compensation-claims-20699276 Cathkin Relief Road compensation claims could cost South Lanarkshire Council £1million], Daily Record, 22 October 2019
338. "Fernbrae Meadows".
339. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-community-fear-become-the-9122174 Rutherglen community fear their scheme has become "the forgotten land"], Daily Record, 26 October 2016
340. [https://www.pressreader.com/uk/rutherglen-reformer/20190918/281711206357009 Springhall facility on schedule], Rutherglen Reformer, 18 September 2019, via [[PressReader]]
341. [https://www.southlanarkshireview.scot/news/article/301/revamped-community-hall-taking-shape Revamped Community Hall taking shape], South Lanarkshire View, 16 September 2019
342. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/revamped-1-million-rutherglen-community-24509271 Rutherglen community centre reopens following £1m revamp], Daily Record, 12 July 2021
343. There is also a catholic church[https://www.stanthonystmark.org.uk/contact-us/st-anthonys-rc-church-rutherglen/ St Anthony’s Catholic church, Rutherglen], St Anthony and St Mark parish
344. [http://www.loch-pri.s-lanark.sch.uk/lps_aboutus.htm About Us], Loch Primary School
345. [https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13124060.faith-barriers-broken-down-as-pupils-share-school-playground/ Faith barriers broken down as pupils share school playground], The Herald, 22 September 2013
346. [http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/rutherglen-schools-handed-anti-sectarian-honour-2531513 Rutherglen schools handed anti-sectarian honour], Daily Record, 11 September 2013
347. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/popular-chinese-restaurant-rutherglen-shuts-21523606 Popular Chinese restaurant in Rutherglen shuts after downturn in business coinciding with coronavirus epidemic], '' Daily Record'', 19 February 2020
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