THE lands of Meadow Park lie on the north side of Eastern Duke Street, at Drygate Toll Bar, and stretch also along the west side of the road to Cumbernauld and Stirling. Anciently they formed part of "Easter Craigs," but were subsequently included under the comparatively modern name of Whitehill. One of the fields was known as "Meadow Park," and when the house represented in the photograph was erected, it received this appellation.
The property was purchased in 1804 from Mr. Grahame of Whitehill, by Mr. James Carrick, merchant in Glasgow, who shortly afterwards built Meadow Park House. About eight acres of land were included in the purchase, and the whole enclosed around the mansion. There was a large walled garden behind, with gateway and lodge at the highway.
Mr. Carrick resided at Meadow Park till his death, on 15th August 1814. In May following it was sold by his three sons, James, Alexander, and Robert Carrick, merchants in Glasgow, to James Young, a retired West India merchant. He died there in 1827, and the property was subsequently sold to the late Mr. John Reid of Annfield and Whitehill; after whose death, in 1851, it was again sold, and now belongs to Mr. A. H. Dennistoun of Golfhill. Meadow Park is now part of the new and rapidly increasing suburb of "Dennistoun," and a street named "Meadowpark Street" is in course of being opened through Mr. Carrick's old property, connecting Eastern Duke Street with the new North-east Park.
[1878]
Meadow Park House, like its stately neighbour Whitehill, has now made way for row of "flatted tenements."
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