Talk:Barrhead

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This entry seems to have developed a rather strong Catholic bias (do we really need to know the attendance of St John's ?) !!!!

Why not? It is quite an interesting figure!

Why is it that BOTH Barrhead and Linwood claim the birthright of Paul Lambert !!!!

Possibly he was born in the maternity hospital in Paisley??? A lot of people from Barrhead are/were, but that doesn't mean they're "from Paisley". Agreed - he was likely born in Paisley Mat.

That doesn't clear up the Linwood claim though !

I've removed the link from the reference to StLuke's since it didn't link to the school but to an area of London !!!

I've never heard the word Barrheadonian (you just made it up didn't you), Barrheadian or Burrheidian is definately more common, even if you don't like it. --GeorgeShaw 17:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm interested in the origin of the name Barrhead. In the Neilston Parish Register in 1737, there's a mention of "Barrs Miln": "‘1737 David a lawfull son procreate between Robert Dunlop and Isobell Stinson in Barrs Miln was Baptised Septemr 4th.’". Does anyone know where this mill was? Could it have any relationship to the name Barrhead? If so, was the mill maybe named for people named Barr? RebeccaGreen (talk) 06:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cite your sources[edit]

Per WP:V and WP:BLP, I have removed the following content:

Notable natives of Barrhead include:

  • Christopher Brookmyre, author
  • Douglas Henshall, actor
  • Alex McLeish, former football player and former Scotland manager
  • Paul Lambert, former Celtic F.C. captain and European Cup winner
  • Andy Roxburgh, former Scotland football manager and current Technical Director of UEFA and previously Headmaster of Carlibar Primary to 1975
  • Dougie Pincock, folk star of The Battlefield Band, who is now Director of the Scottish National Centre for Excellence in Traditional Music
  • Christine McGourty, BBC Science correspondent (Henshall and McGourty were exact contemporaries at Barrhead High School)
  • Rosie, the guitarist of punk band The Hedrons[1]
  • Gordon McCorkell, actor
  • Harry Burns (doctor), current Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
  • Jamie Harvey, professional darts player
  • Paul Hanvidge, professional darts player
  • Gregor Fisher, better known as Scottish comedy star "Rab C. Nesbitt", was a former pupil of Barrhead High School.
  • An adoptive resident is dancer Darrien Wright (born Darlington) winner of the 2006 BBC Strictly Dance Fever competition (with Hollie Robertson). The family of pop singer Paolo Nutini had a newsagents shop in Barrhead for many years on the corner of Victoria Road and Paisley Road.
  • Going back a little further, Barrhead also produced Gordon Murray, Scottish Amateur Golf Champion in the 1970s and member of the British Walker Cup team; Gilbert Nichol, a 1950s Olympic speedskater; Rangers' 9 times league winning striker Bob McPhail; and celebrated 19th century footballer Robert Stevenson.
  • Kate Cranston, the Glasgow Tearoom entrepreneur known for her working partnership with the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, lived on Carlibar Road with her husband, John Cochrane, the third Provost of Barrhead.
  • John Davidson, a poet and playwright best known for his ballads, was born on Lowndes Street.
  • James Maxton, the Scottish socialist politician and leader of the Independent Labour Party, lived in Barrhead from the age of 5, where his father was headmaster of Grahamston School. Their family home was ‘Beechwood’ situated in Gateside Road. Maxton attended school in Barrhead until he was twelve years old. In the 1960s, Maxton's second wife Madeline gifted a plot of land to the people of Barrhead on which the local council built a memorial garden as a tribute to Maxton, [2] although this plot has now fallen into disrepair.

If you wish to restore any of these entries then you must provide reliable sources. Thanking you in advance for not restoring unsourced content. --Jza84 |  Talk  22:59, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger proposal[edit]

I propose that Auchenback be merged into Barrhead. The former is an unsourced stub of very little potential, concerning a small area of the town. Any information on it can comfortably be accommodated in the Barrhead article. Jellyman (talk) 13:17, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As there have been no comments, I have gone ahead and performed the merger. Jellyman (talk) 22:09, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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