at what would become the junction of Endrick Street and Gourlay Street (named after the most prominent family which owned the mansion). To the west of this, an eponymous public park was laid out around a decade later. North of the park, a grid pattern of streets running east from Saracen Street, Possilpark was extended along to the perimeter of Cowlairs Works, lined with grey 'rehousing' tenements constructed cheaply to accommodate residents previously living in slum conditions elsewhere in the city.

In 1923, Cowlairs Works passed into