Baillieston is situated 6 miles east of Glasgow city centre in Scotland. It was named after Baillieston House which stood a quarter of a mile west,and which was named after the first owner of the estate - Mr.John Baillie in 1732 or thereabouts.
The first building in Baillieston was the toll keeper's house built in 1795 and was occupied by John Wallace who collected the tolls on the newly opened turnpike road between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In the next 15 years a hamlet grew up around the main road fuelled by an influx of people who became hand weavers. Thereafter it rapidly grew into a village with the development of coal mining in the area.
By the twentieth century it was a small town and in 1975 it was absorbed into Glasgow from Lanarkshire.
Population at 2000 was 17,000.
