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Fireworks village, also known as Govan Colliery Houses, was a company village belonging to the Dixon family who ran the Govan Iron Works and Govan Colliery. The inhabitants were chiefly coal miners and their families who worked in the Govan Colliery. The company also built a Methodist church and a school. ==History== The Govan Colliery, also known as the Little Govan Colliery, was worked from at least the 18th Century, William Dixon〔MacLehose,p103〕 having started there as colliery manager in the 1770s. The colliery and later the iron works remained in the control of the Dixon family from then until 1873 when it became a limited company William Dixon Ltd. and was no longer a family firm. In 1811 Dixons built a waggonway linking the colliery with the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal at Port Eglington, the Glasgow terminus. The canal was opened in 1810. In 1820 Dixons bought the lands of Govanhill and the colliery. In 1830 an Act of Parliament authorized the construction of the Polloc and Govan Railway(sic) which was completed in 1840. It extended the old tramway past Port Eglington to Windmill Quay on the Clyde in one direction and to Rutherglen in the other direction.〔Records of the Poloc and Govan Railway〕 The line now forms part of the West Coast Main Line. In the 1860's the first tenements were built, which later formed the Burgh of Govanhill. The houses belonging to Fireworks were gradually demolished. In 1906 Garden Square was demolished, the last of the old Fireworks Village. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fireworks Village」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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