Dalbeth

A small district of E Glasgow, Dalbeth lies to the north of the River Clyde, south of Braidfauld and 4 miles (6.5 km) southeast of the city centre. A Convent for the Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd was established here in the 1850s. The sisters ran a Magdalene Asylum for 'fallen' women and established a Reformatory School for Girls in 1865. Peter Paul Pugin (1851 - 1904) built the Church of the Good Shepherd here in 1902. The nuns left in 1949 and the church closed in 1975. Subsequently most of the buildings have been demolished. Nearby are the Roman Catholic cemeteries of St. Peter's and St. Joseph's.

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