Whiteinch was part of the expanding city of Glasgow in 1912, and part of the Parish of Govan.
It was originally an island in the Clyde, called Whyt Inch, (inch being an island in Scots).
However, this was during the time when the Clyde flowed naturally as a shallow and wide river. When it was dredged and narrowed as a man-made enterprise to allow for shipbuilding, the island disappeared, but the name lived on in the area that now sat on the north bank of the river.
The population growth of Whiteinch was linked to industrial growth, primarily shipbuilding.
The Clydeholm shipyard of the Barclay Curle company occupied much of the Whiteinch riverbank and was opened in 1855.
Whiteinch was an important Clyde ferry crossing. A rowing boat ferry was replaced by a steam ferry in 1891 and the Clyde's second vehicular "horse" ferry was introduced in 1905.
Both passenger and vehicle ferries, which ran from the foot of Ferryden Street, were withdrawn in 1963 with the opening of the Clyde Tunnel.
Besides having a football club called Whiteinch F.C. between 1874 and 1879, Partick Thistle F.C. played in the Whiteinch district for a short while.
They played at Jordanvale Park in the area from 1881-1883, when they moved to Muir Park in the centre of Partick.
They then returned to the Whiteinch area in 1885 when they moved into the Inchview home of their by now defunct rivals Partick F.C., which is near the location of the Clyde Tunnel's north entrance.
Whiteinch is notably home to the Fossil Grove, a site within Victoria Park, discovered in 1887 and containing the fossilized stumps of 11 extinct Lepidodendron ("Giant club moss") trees.
In early 2007 the Victorian Bathhouse on Medwyn Street was torn down to make way for a new townhouse complex that is part of the Clydeside Redevelopment Project.

 

Robert Dixon