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Timeline

2011

Cranhill Community Project becomes the Cranhill Development Trust

2010

Bellrock Community Education Centre closed

2009

Cranhill Water Tower second light switch on

2006

St Maria Goretti Primary opened (merger of St Elizabeth Seton Primary, St Modan’s Primary, Lamlash Nursery)
Cranhill Primary opened (merger of Milncroft Primary, Lamlash Primary and Bellrock Crescent Nursery)

2003

Cranhill 50th Anniversary Jubilee Gala organised by Beacon Centre and Cranhill Parish Church
Housing Stock transferred to GHA

2001

Cranhill Community Project set up

1999

Cranhill Water Tower lit up for first time (funds ran out 6 years later)

1998

Candlelit vigil leads to formation of Mothers Against Drugs

1996

Strathclyde Regional Council abolished; Glasgow City Council created

1991

Cranhill Secondary School closed
St Gregory’s Secondary closed; pupils transferred to St Andrew’s Secondary.

1981

Cranhill Arts Project established

1980

Bellrock Community Centre opened

1979

Stretch of Monkland Motorway (M8) from Cumbernauld Road to Stepps Road completed; section to Baillieston completed in 1980

1976

Cranhill Credit Union launched

1975

Glasgow Corporation replaced by Strathclyde Regional Council

1968

St Maria Goretti Church Hall completed

1965

Cranhill Parish Church New Sanctuary opened

1961

Cranhill Secondary School opened (Startpoint Street)
St Gregory’s Secondary School opened (in building previously occupied by Lightburn Secondary)

1959

Cranhill Tenants' Association Hall opened

1957

St Modan’s Primary School opened
Lightburn Secondary opened (Torphin Crescent)

1955

Milncroft Primary School opened

1953

Families move into East Cranhill (Water Tower end)
Cranhill Parish Church Foundation stone laid

1952

Families move into West Cranhill

1949

Layout Plan for Cranhill Scheme for 2544 houses submitted to Glasgow Corporation (November)

1948

Queenslie Industrial Estate opened (by Scottish Industrial Estates)

1931

Glasgow City Boundary extended to include Hogganfield and the areas which were to become Cranhill, Queenslie and Barlanark (previously parts of Lanarkshire).