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Oswald Bank, one of half a dozen large Victorian mansions built before 1860 on what became Broomhill Drive. Unlike most of the former mansions in adjacent Thornwood which succumbed to the second tenement building boom of the 1890-1910, Oswald Bank and its neighbours (Hope Park, Beechwood, Oswaldhill) survived into the modern era but were compulsorily purchased by the city and replaced with four large high-rise blocks built 1964-68. '