Nitshill

Nitshill (Scots: Nitshull, Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc nan Cnòthan) is a district on the south side of Glasgow.

It is north of South Nitshill, south of Crookston, and southwest of Silverburn and Pollok. Nitshill was originally a coal mining village. The Nitshill Colliery was the scene of one of Scotland's worst mining disasters—on 15 March 1851 in which 61 men and boys died.

The village fell within the county of Renfrewshire until about the 1920s, when it was incorporated into the City of Glasgow. The change in local government were mainly related to education and community services such as roads, water, sewerage and housing.

The village grew to accommodate people relocated during the Glasgow slum clearances in the 1950s and 1960s. The village became a low socio-economic area on the main Glasgow-Kilmarnock road and rail networks. However, there has been a move towards improving the district with the building of The Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, which houses the Nitshill Open Museum. This is a new purpose-built museum storage facility and visitor centre.

Modern Nitshill is synonymous with gang culture and its gang, the YNF (Young Nitsie Fleeto), is regularly involved in gang fights throughout the Greater Pollok area. The YNF has a long-standing rivalry with the "Bowry" gang of Barrhead and engageS in gang warfare underneath the tunnel between the two housing schemes. However, fighting stopped between the YNF and the infamous AYT (Arden Young Team) after the two gangs reached an agreement in late 2015.

The poet and folk singer Jock Purdon was born and grew up in Nitshill.

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