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The old cast iron fingerpost at the crossroads is a familiar sight and has been directing travellers to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Strathaven and East Kilbride for many years. Old photographs show the fingerpost has been here for at least one hundred years although has been relocated from its original position at the other side of the crossroads. The post has a spherical boss finial; new fingers were cast and fitted to the post in recent years giving the sign a new lease of life. A similar fingerpost now long gone stood at the south-west corner of Newton Mearns cross. The Eaglesham fingerpost is probably the only remaining fingerpost in East Renfrewshire.
©Kenneth Mallard
Eaglesham Cross looking along Cheapside Street. There was a post office, butcher and general store here at one time; the buildings being converted back to dwelling houses in the twentieth century. Alexander Johnston who owned Sunnyside Nursery had a grocery shop on the corner. Next door was the Post Office. A Bulloch & Co. had a grocery shop at 3 Cheapside Street. Further down the street and set-back from the line of buildings, is a house which is a miniature of Polnoon Lodge http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1450255 and was once occupied by the Eaglesham Estate factor. A cast-iron finger post http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1530094 can be seen at the corner of Cheapside Street and Gilmour Street.
©Kenneth Mallard
At the main crossroads in Eaglesham.
©G Laird
A block of two-storey houses at Eaglesham Cross. There was a post office, butcher and general store here at one time; the buildings being converted back to dwelling houses in the twentieth century. Alexander Johnston who owned Sunnyside Nursery had a grocery shop on the corner. Next door was the Post Office. A Bulloch & Co. had a grocery shop at 3 Cheapside Street.
©Kenneth Mallard
A Best Western Hotel
©Alex McGregor
The Fair Queen and Usher lead the procession to the common green for the crowning of the Queen and opening of the 2009 Eaglesham Fair. The carriage is drawn by a magnificent pair of Clydesdale horses driven by Jimmy Steel of Jackton. Alexander, the eighth Earl of Eglinton, obtained for the inhabitants a charter for a weekly market and an annual fair in 1672. The fair was held on the last Thursday in August when horse-races took place. Nowadays the fair is held bi-annually in June.
©Kenneth Mallard
The Old Schoolhouse, Gilmour Street at the cross was built by 1789. The schoolhouse accommodated the dominie or master. The old school was next door where the Coronation Buildings once stood.
©Kenneth Mallard
An example of a curvilinear wallhead chimney at a two-storey building in Cheapside Street.
©Kenneth Mallard
An asymmetrical two-storey building with ground floor shop built in Cheapside Street. The building has a curvilinear wallhead chimney with 'Established 1835' in cast-iron letters.
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Cheapside Street looking towards the cross. The old Toll House http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1821577 can be seen on the right in the foreground. It was probably originally thatched.
©Kenneth Mallard
Three flue, shouldered wall head chimney at the Eglinton Arms Hotel.
©Kenneth Mallard
The Eglinton Arms Hotel was built around 1835 as a coaching inn by Alexander Bryson with later alterations and additions. The building features an unusual, three flue shouldered wall head chimney and pilastered and corniced doorpiece.
©Kenneth Mallard
The Eglinton Arms Hotel stands in Gilmour Street. The hotel was built around 1835 as a coaching inn with later alterations and additions. Nearby at the crossroads, is the old schoolhouse http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1826308 ; one of three schools that were located in the village. Links to other views of Gilmour Street http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1484265 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1484253 and hotels and inns http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2012069 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1875376 .
©Kenneth Mallard
©Elliott Simpson
The weather vane atop the steeple of the Parish Church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1424798 is an eagle, a romantic emblem as used by the village and which appears on the Feuars' flag. The cardinal points are indicated by direction arrows rather than their initials.
©Kenneth Mallard

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