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539: 166: 179: 35: 186: 515:. The Cart public house also opened, the only one in the area. Corkerhill spiralled into decline in the mid to late 1980s until many of the tenements were vandalised and empty and most of the shops were unrented. In 2004, demolition of the tenements began, being replaced with privately owned suburban style housing. 328: 561:. It has a 3G astro pitch for 11-a-side football or three 7-a-side pitches, a separate 5-a-side pitch, two hockey pitches, gym, dance studio, running track, grass rugby pitch, three grass 11-a-side football pitches and a 386: 557:
The sports complex, built at a cost of £3.7 million with help from the Corkerhill community and the late local residents Walter Morrison and Elizabeth Campbell, was opened in 2005 by
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Nethercraigs lies adjacent to the Corkerhill residential area and is largely occupied by the Nethercraigs Sports Complex, which was formerly the home ground to Glasgow
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Later in the 1960s, shops were built to address the shortage in the area, the nearest then being in Cardonald and
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opened on 1 July 1885 as a staff halt for railway workers, and to the public in 1923. It is on the
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and was later used by the Glasgow Caledonain GAA as their home ground and training pitch.
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built Hardridge Road, consisting of terraced and tenement dwellings.
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Corkerhill Railway Station (Burrell Collection Photo Library, 1900)
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on the train and close to two junctions of the motorway.
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In the 1920s, building in the area expanded as far as
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