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 from the east corner, and is the oldest building in the street. George Murdoch, who was Provost in 1766, had a residence at the corner. It was almost identical with Dunlop's, and latterly was for many years occupied as the Buck's Head Hotel.

(Plantation), after the village in Renfrewshire of this name, where the paternal ancestors of the present proprietor of this estate had been engaged in cotton-spinning, they having been proprietors of the factory there in the palmy days of the trade. The late John Ramsay of Kildalton, who was M.P. for the Falkirk Burghs in 1874, was in his youthful days a clerk in this factory when it was being run by Mr. White.

was originally called Marlborough Street, but at the opening of the Paisley and Johnstone Canal, of which concern the Earl of Eglinton was chairman, the name was changed.

was formed on the lands of Stobcross, at that time held by John Orr of Barrowfield, who named it after a Mr. Finnie, who was a tutor in his family.

formed the northern boundary of what was previously known as the Fir Park, now the Necropolis.

. Part of the lands of Cowlairs, through which this street was formed, was known of old as Flemington.

, as its name denotes, was the ford in the corner over Camlachie Burn.

, named in honour of Charles James Fox, the celebrated statesman.

, named in honour of the American Benjamin, who was at once statesman, scientist, and philosopher.

, named for D. D. Fraser, a well-known clothier in the east end of the city, who speculated extensively in property.