WORK STILL IN PROGRESS
 
Present day Croy and, still to be incorporated, Croy Row, Barbeggs House / Farm, St Anne's which was formerly Barbeggs Inn and an extensive settlement which existed at or near Croy Railway Station.
 
Croy is a village of approximately eleven hundred people located in North Lanarkshire in central Scotland although, until recent boundary changes, it was for many centuries a part of East Dunbartonshire.
 
The present village dates from the 1930's and has grown in stages since then. It was created originally to re-house several local communities of miners' families living in inadequate circumstances in the miners' rows of Croy, Smithston, Auchinstarry, Drumglass and Craiglinn.
 
Whether by chance or by design of Wm Baird & Co., the 19th century mine-owners and builders of the rows, the village population deriving from these earlier mining communities is almost entirely of Irish extraction and Roman Catholic in religion.
 
Of interest in Constarry Road, is the well preserved and renovated red brick row known locally as the Coronation Row. The coronation referred to was that of King Edward VII who succeeded Queen Victoria in the early 1900's. This row was built by the local quarry owner for his manager, foreman, blacksmith and other associated tradesmen. Croy Historical Society hold a selection of the last blacksmith / farrier's tools.
 
Of interest, the road name "Constarry" road is made up from "Con" as in  Condorrat and "starry" from Auchinstarry, i.e. the road between these two villages.
 
In the vicinity of the present railway station area there were at times in the past:-
 
a. a grain mill (Brownlee and Fleming)
 
b. a large Flax Mill, Linseed Oil Works (refinery) and associated workers' housing (owner's name still to be researched).
 
c. a row of Edinburgh - Glasgow (later LNER) railway workers' houses locally known as "the Corduroy Row".
 
d. a sand and gravel pit, later to become a children's summer time paddling pool known as "the Blaebery" because of the abundance of wild Blackberies growing there in summer time. This area has now been incorporated into one of the new Dullatur Golf Club courses.
 
e. Croy Curling Rink and Club. Famous at one time for having three members of the Westminster Parliament in their ranks among whom were members of the Gartshore Estate Whitelaw Family and their estate manager Alexander Park.
 
f. the wooden summer house built for Mr Rudd who had been seriously injured during his service in the first world War (see photograph).
 
g. railway station master and porters' houses, ticket office, waiting rooms either side with warm fires in winter, signal box with oil lamp and workers bothy below, signal towers with oil lamps, hand operated points control levers, weigh bridge, water storage tank and filling tower for steam engines, goods yard sidings,
mineral (whinstone) loading gantry, additional passenger sidings and other facilities. Each platform had cast iron bench seating, weighing machine (personal), chocolate vending machine and toilet.
 
h. the old original sandstone Croy House, sometime "Park View", which was to become the presbytery for the new RC Parish Mission of Holy Cross Croy at the beginning of the 20th Century.
 
i. Croy Row, football field and all associated life and activities. 
Over the years, many football teams have played here. Croy Celtic, a Scottish Junior League team, were quite famous in their day winning a national trophy in the early 1900's.
Other teams to have used the facility were Croy Juveniles, Holy Cross Croy Boys Guild, Holy Cross Croy School teams.
The park was also used for miscellaneous school activities and for local sports and gala day. Annual cycle and cross country  races started and finished here. 
 
j. the WW2 Home Guard defensive emplacement
 
Details of the above will be incorporated on an ongoing basis.
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