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Whats in Greenhills?
Here you will find contact details for
some of the facilities and organizations that are in
Greenhills. It’s a handy little guide if you are looking
for something to do in Greenhills, or find out about the
area. Whether you want some fresh bread, to get your
teeth pulled, or you just fancy a fish supper, this is
the page to contact.
If you are a local business
and would like your contact details put here then e-mail
us on admin@gmvg.org
CHURCHES
Greenhills
Parish Church.
Greenhills Shopping Centre,
Turnberry Place
Greenhills
E Kilbride
G75
8TD
Minister - Reverend John Brewster
Tel: 01355
- 222175/221746.
St. Vincent De Paul Parish
Church.
Tinto Way
Greenhills
East
Kilbride
Glasgow
G75 8TT
Parish Priest - Father
Pat Hennessy.
01355 -
243619
SCHOOLS
St.
Andrews High School
Quarry Road
Greenhills
East Kilbride
G75 9JL
01355 -
233691
Head Teacher - Mrs Anne Mulgrew
Opened
25 years ago, 1978. When it first opened, there were 452
pupils on the school roll. Approximately 630 pupils
now.
Ballerup High School
Crosshouse
Road,
Greenhills
East Kilbride
01355 -
225351
Head Teacher - Mr R. Crawford
Opened in
August, 1978. When the school opened there were 606
pupils.
St Vincent’s Primary School
40
Crosshouse Road,
Greenhills
East Kilbride
01355 - 241649
Head Teacher - Liam
Lindsay
Pupils started Monday 27th August, 1973,
a week later than scheduled. The first headmaster was a
Mr Dolan. By 1975 the roll was 432. The school
originally had 14 classes, intended for a maximum of 560
pupils.
Greenhills Primary
School
Cedar Drive
Greenhills
East Kilbride
01355 - 241646
Head Teacher - Lynne
Beveridge
Opened 1976.
Castlefield
Primary School
Maple Terrace
Greenhills
East Kilbride
01355 -
230810
Head Teacher– Mrs Houston
Opened in
1972, with just 28 pupils. By 1975, the roll had reached
587, and children were starting at a rate of up to
fifteen a week. Castlefield Primary was the first school
to be built in Greenhills, and it was also the venue for
the first playgroups in the area – The Links and the
Mudlarks, which started in 1973. It was also used for
three years by the Church of Scotland congregation while
the parish church was being built.
Crosshouse
Primary School
Plover Drive
Greenhills
East Kilbride
01355 - 245300
Head Teacher - Mrs Freda
Fraser
SHOPS
ALex
McAndlish, Butcher
Greenhills Shopping
Centre
Greenhills
East Kilbride
tel: 01355 -
243107
The shop has been there really for as long
as Greenhills has and has sold lots of sausages. Working
at a rate of 600 kilograms of sausages per week, with 24
links per kilo, the butcher’s shop has produced
approximately 19,828,800 sausages (12,120 cows)
Morrison’s Home Bakery
Greenhills
Shopping Centre
Greenhills
East Kilbride
tel:
01355 - 243711
Mr Morrison sells approximately
280 pans of rolls per week. With 32 rolls in each pan,
that amounts to around 12,337,920 rolls since the shop
opened. He has also sold around 2,148,120 pies during
his time at Greenhills.
J.P. Fenton &
Sons, Pharmacy
Greenhills Shopping
Centre
Greenhills
East Kilbride
tel: 01355 -
235450
The pharmacy has been in its current
location for six years, since the centre was
re-developed in 1996, but it has been in the Greenhills
Centre for a total of 25 years. With an average of 20
packs of paracetamol – that’s 640 tablets –being sold
each day, Fentons has sold, over the years, 4,896,000
paracetamol tablets.
The Greenhills
Bar
Greenhills Shopping Centre
Greenhills
East Kilbride
tel: 01355 - 242928
The bar
opened in 1974, and is owned by the Birret Group. The
pub serves around 678 gallons of beer every week. That
means that, over the years, the pub has served
approximately 1,002,762 gallons of beer, equivalent to
over 8 million pints.
The Whitehills
Bar
Scholars Gate,
Greenhills
East
Kilbride
tel: 01355 - 907018
The pub opened
on 22nd September 1979. Mr Hart bought the land,
formerly Whitehills Farm, from the Corporation. The pub
serves around 400 gallons of beer per week, which works
out at 469,200 gallons of beer over the years, nearly 4
million pints.
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