Neighbourhood of East Kilbride, Scotland
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office main building (Abercrombie House)
St James Retail Park
Hairmyres is an area of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire , Scotland, situated on the west side of the town, close to the main road to Eaglesham and Kilmarnock (also with access to the major A726 Queensway/Glasgow South Orbital dual carriageway ). It is 2+ 1 ⁄4 miles (3.5 kilometres) from the Glasgow City Council boundary at the Carmunnock Bypass and nine miles (fourteen kilometres) south of the city centre of Glasgow .
Falling under the council's East Kilbride West ward,[1] it gives its name to University Hospital Hairmyres , the general hospital for the town and surrounding area which originally opened in 1904, long before East Kilbride was developed as a new town after World War II.[2] The district railway station (on the branch of the Glasgow South Western Line ) is at the bottom of the hospital access road; trains are operated on a half-hourly basis by ScotRail to Glasgow Central and East Kilbride .
Next to Hairmyres Station is Abercrombie House, one of the headquarters of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office . The building originally belonged to the Overseas Development Administration , which relocated part of its operations here in 1981 as part of a government initiative to create employment in a region subject to major job losses following years of industrial decline .[3]
The area now has a small shopping area known as the St James Retail Park. It is easily identifiable by its yellow and orange coloured walls. It hosts a few services such as eateries, a hairdresser and a vet .
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