The area was a country estate outside Glasgow and north of the former burgh of Anderston centred around "Sandyford House" until the mid-19th century, when the expansion and industrialisation of the rapidly growing city spread westwards, with Sauchiehall Street, on which Sandyford House stood, becoming one of the primary thoroughfares (at that time the western end of Sauchiehall Street was known as Sandyford Street, its name changing in the early 1900s).