1) Area of Glasgow 
Cranhill is a housing estate in the east end of Glasgow. ==History== Like many similar publicly funded `schemes`, it was built in the early 1950s on the outskirts of the city to alleviate the post-war housing shortage. However, unlike the `big four` schemes of Castlemilk, Drumchapel, Easterhouse and Pollok, Cranhill was relatively compact, wit...