Tullis Street is named after the Tullis family, tanners and leather merchants in the area for many years.
John Tullis & Son came to Calton from Arbroath in 1854 and in 1870
opened the St Ann’s Leatherworks in John Street in Bridgeton. Large
quantities of hard-wearing leather belts were required in a wide
variety of factories and workshops where steam engines were used to
drive machinery
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Tullis Street taken from the Main Street
Derelict land and trees on the left is where John St.Senior Secondary School
once proudly stood..
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The
top left of the picture you can just make out Ruby St high rise
flats, to the right of the tree is new flats which were built in the
Main Street and further right is the original three storey
tenements.
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Picture
below taken from roughly the same spot........sad isn't it?
This is a view of the old school looking along the street towards Bridgeton
Main Street
see picture of the new school built in 1970
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Tullis Street was formerly known as John Street
and that is where the school got its name from.
Below is an old photo taken from Greenhead Street c1906 looking east
along John Street
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You can just make out the square turret of the John St.
School building.
The church opposite is
Bridgeton Greenhead UF church demolished c1937 now the site of Tullis
Street Orange Hall
And as you can see from the photo below the pub on the corner is still a
pub!.
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Same view from Greenhead St looking east along Tullis
Street
Sadly the church and the school have been demolished. |
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