The names of the streets and buildings at the campus have also been unveiled. Barclays has worked closely with Professor Murray Pittock and his team at the University of Glasgow to uncover and pay tribute to the rich industrial heritage of the Tradeston area after staff voted to name the campus buildings in recognition of the city’s heritage. In the early 1800s, Tradeston was developed as a manufacturing district by Trades House, which was a union of Glasgow’s craftsmen including bakers, tailors, weavers, joiners, coopers, hammermen and maltmen. The project team researched as far back as the 1500s to find inspiration and local historical references for the names of the five buildings which form the campus:
The Barclays site Barclays said Tradescroft had been developed in the 1790s after Trades House purchased the plot of land which was previously part of the larger area of the Barony of the Gorbals. It added that the area of Windmill Croft dated back to the 1700s. The bank noted this area was named for its windmill sitting on the banks of the Clyde just to the west of the site. The bank said Wellcroft was “likely named after wells or springs in the location which later became the start of the Paisley and Johnstone canal built to support the local coal industry”. It added that Grays Hill, just to the south of the campus site, was commonly called “clay holes”, and that this was thought to be because of the leftover materials used by the local brickworks.