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Some interesting info
about Glasgow. Glasgow was historically based around Glasgow
Cathedral, the old High Street and down to the River Clyde
via Glasgow Cross. The boundaries of Glasgow have changed on
several occasions for political purposes, with many places
that view themselves as part of Glasgow falling out with the
Glasgow City local authority created in 1996. For further
information on what places are within the city council area
and those that lie out with but are included in other
definitions of Glasgow, see the List of places in Glasgow
page.
City centre
The city centre is bounded by the High Street to the east,
the River Clyde to the south and the M8 motorway to the west
and north which was built through the Townhead, Charing
Cross, Cowcaddens and Anderston areas in the 1960s.
Retail and theatre district
Looking down Buchannan Street towards St. Enoch subway
station.The city centre is based on a grid system of
streets, similar to that of Barcelona or American cities, on
the north bank of the River Clyde. The heart of the city is
George Square, site of many of Glasgow's public statues and
the elaborate Victorian Glasgow City Chambers, headquarters
of Glasgow City Council. To the south and west are the
shopping precincts of Argyle Street, Sauchiehall Street and
Buchanan Street, the latter featuring more upmarket
retailers and winner of the Academy of Urbanism 'Great
Street Award' 2008. The main shopping centres are Buchanan
Galleries and the St. Enoch Centre, with the up-market
Princes Square and the Italian Centre specialising in
designer labels. The London-based department store
Selfridges has purchased a potential development site in the
city and another upmarket retail chain Harvey Nichols is
also thought to be planning a store in the city, further
strengthening Glasgow's retail portfolio, which forms the
UK's second largest and most economically important retail
sector after Central London.
The city centre is home to most of Glasgow's main cultural
venues: The Theatre Royal (home of Scottish Opera and
Scottish Ballet), The Pavilion, The King's Theatre, Glasgow
Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow Film Theatre, Gallery of Modern
Art (GoMA), Mitchell Library, the Centre for Contemporary
Arts, McLellan Galleries and The Lighthouse Museum of
Architecture, Design and the City. The world's tallest
cinema, the eighteen-screen Cineworld is situated on Renfrew
Street. The city centre is also home to four of Glasgow's
higher education institutions: The University of Strathclyde,
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow
School of Art and Glasgow Caledonian University.
Merchant City
The Steeple dominates Glasgow Cross and marks the east side
of the Merchant City. To the east is the commercial and
residential district of Merchant City. The Merchant City was
formerly the residential district of the wealthy city
merchants in the 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly
the Tobacco Lords from whom many of the streets take their
name. As the Industrial Revolution and the wealth it brought
to the city resulted in the expansion of Glasgow's central
area westward, the original medieval centre was left behind.
Glasgow Cross, situated at the junction of High Street,
Gallowgate, Trongate and Saltmarket was the original centre
of the city, symbolised by its Mercat cross. Glasgow Cross
encompasses the Tolbooth Clock Tower; all that remains of
the original City Chambers, which was destroyed by fire in
1926. Moving northward up High Street towards Rottenrow and
Townhead lies the 15th century Glasgow Cathedral and the
Provand's Lordship. Due to growing industrial pollution
levels in the mid to late 19th century, the area fell out of
favour with residents.
From the late 1980s onwards, the Merchant City has been
rejuvenated with luxury city centre apartments and warehouse
conversions. This regeneration has supported an increasing
number of cafés and restaurants. The area is also home to a
number of high end boutique style shops and some of
Glasgow's most upmarket stores.
The Merchant City is the centre of Glasgow's growing
'cultural quarter', based around King Street, the Saltmarket
and Trongate, and at the heart of the annual Merchant City
Festival. The area has supported a huge growth in art
galleries, the origins of which can be found in the late 80s
when it attracted artist-led organisations that could afford
the cheap rents required to operate in vacant manufacturing
or retail spaces. The artistic and cultural potential of the
Merchant City as a 'cultural quarter' was harnessed by
independent arts organisations and Glasgow City Council, and
the recent development of Trongate 103, which houses
galleries, workshops, artist studios and production spaces,
is considered a major outcome of the continued partnership
between both. The area also contains a number of theatres
and concert venues, including the Tron Theatre, the Old
Fruitmarket, the Trades Hall, St. Andrews in the Square,
Merchant Square, and the City Halls.
A large part of Glasgow's LGBT scene is located within the
Merchant City. This includes many clubs, and the UK gay
chain store Clone Zone, along with a couple of saunas.
Recently the city council defined (and perhaps expanded) the
area known as Merchant City as far west as Buchanan Street,
marking these boundaries with new, highly stylised metal
signage.
Financial district
To the western edge of the city centre, occupying the areas
of Blythswood Hill and Anderston, lies Glasgow's financial
district, known officially as the International Financial
Services District (IFSD), although often irreverently
nicknamed by the contemporary press as the "square kilometre"
or "Wall Street on Clyde". Since the late 1980s the
construction of many modern office blocks, a trend which
continues into the 21st century with a new wave of high rise
developments currently on the drawing board, has enabled the
IFSD to become the third largest financial quarter in the UK
after the City of London and Edinburgh. With a reputation as
an established financial services centre, coupled with
comprehensive support services, Glasgow continues to attract
and grow new business.
West End
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is Glasgow's premier
museum and art gallery, housing one of Europe's great civic
art collections. Glasgow's West End refers to the bohemian
district of cafés, tea rooms, bars, boutiques, upmarket
hotels, clubs and restaurants in the hinterland of
Kelvingrove Park, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Botanic
Gardens and the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.
The area's main thoroughfare is Byres Road and one of its
most popular destinations is Ashton Lane.
The West End includes residential areas of Hillhead,
Dowanhill, Kelvingrove, Kelvinside, Hyndland, and, to an
increasing extent, Partick. However, the name is
increasingly being used to refer to any area to the west of
Charing Cross. This includes areas such as Scotstoun,
Jordanhill, Kelvindale and Anniesland.
The West End is bisected by the River Kelvin which flows
from the Kilsyth Hills in the North and empties into the
River Clyde at Yorkhill Basin.
The spire of Sir George Gilbert Scott's Glasgow University
main building (the second largest Gothic Revival building in
Britain) is a major local landmark, and can be seen from
miles around, sitting atop Gilmorehill. The university
itself is the fourth oldest in the English-speaking world.
Much of the city's student population is based in the West
End, adding to its cultural vibrancy.
The area is also home to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and
Museum, Hunterian Museum, Kelvin Hall International Sports
Arena, Henry Wood Hall (home of the Royal Scottish National
Orchestra) and the Museum of Transport, which is to be
rebuilt on a former dockland site at Glasgow Harbour to a
design by Zaha Hadid. The West End Festival, one of
Glasgow's largest festivals, is held annually in June.
Glasgow is the home of the SECC, the United Kingdom's
largest exhibition and conference centre. A major expansion
of the SECC facilities at the former Queen's Dock by Foster
and Partners is currently planned, including a 12,000 seat
arena, and a 5 star hotel and entertainments complex.
East End
The East End extends from Glasgow Cross in the City Centre
to the boundary with North and South Lanarkshire. It is home
to the famous Glasgow Barrowland Market, popularly known as
'The Barras', Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow Green, and Celtic
Park, home of Celtic F.C.. Many of the original sandstone
tenements remain in this district. The East End in contrast
to the West End, includes some of the most deprived areas in
the UK. The Glasgow Necropolis Cemetery was created on a
hill above the Cathedral of Saint Mungo in 1831. Routes
curve through the landscape uphill to the 62-metre (203 ft)
high statue of John Knox at the summit.
There are two late 18th century tenements in Gallowgate.
Dating from 1771 and 1780, both have been well restored. The
construction of Charlotte Street was financed by David Dale,
whose former pretensions can be gauged by the one remaining
house, now run by the National Trust for Scotland. Further
along Charlotte Street there stands a modern Gillespie, Kidd
& Coia building of some note. Once a school, it has been
converted into offices. Surrounding these buildings are a
series of innovative housing developments conceived as
'Homes for the Future', part of a project during the city's
year as UK City of Architecture and Design in 1999.
The extensive Tollcross Park was originally developed from
the estate of James Dunlop, the owner of a local steelworks.
His large baronial mansion was built in 1848 by David Bryce,
which later housed the city's Children's Museum until the
1980s. Today, the mansion is a sheltered housing complex.
The new Scottish National Indoor Sports Arena, a modern
replacement for the Kelvin Hall, is planned for Dalmarnock.
The area will also be the site of the Athletes' Village for
the 2014 Commonwealth Games, located adjacent to the new
indoor sports arena.
To the north of the East End lie the two massive gasometers
of Provan Gas Works, which stand overlooking Alexandra Park
and a major interchange between the M8 and M80 motorways.
Often used for displaying large city advertising slogans,
the towers have become an unofficial portal into the city
for road users arriving from the north and east.
South Side
House for an Art Lover is situated in Bellahouston Park,
Glasgow.Glasgow's South Side sprawls out south of the Clyde,
covering areas including Gorbals, Govan, Ibrox, Shawlands,
Simshill, Strathbungo, Cardonald, Mount Florida, Pollokshaws,
Nitshill, Pollokshields, Battlefield, Langside, Govanhill,
Crosshill, Cessnock, Mosspark, Kinning Park, Mansewood,
Arden, Darnley, Newlands, Deaconsbank, Pollok, Croftfoot,
Castlemilk, King's Park, Cathcart, Muirend and Barrhead,
Busby, Clarkston, Giffnock, Thornliebank, Netherlee, and
Newton Mearns in the East Renfrewshire council area, as well
as Cambuslang, East Kilbride, and Rutherglen in the South
Lanarkshire council area.
Although predominantly residential, the area does have
several notable public buildings including, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh's Scotland Street School Museum and House for an
Art Lover; the world famous Burrell Collection in Pollok
Country Park; Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Holmwood House
villa; the National Football Stadium Hampden Park in Mount
Florida, (home of Queens Park F.C.) and Ibrox Stadium, (home
of Rangers F.C.).
The former docklands site at Pacific Quay on the south bank
of the River Clyde, opposite the SECC, is the site of the
Glasgow Science Centre and the new headquarters for BBC
Scotland and STV Group plc (owner of STV) which have
relocated there to a new purpose built digital media campus.
In addition, several new bridges spanning the River Clyde
have been built or are currently planned, including the
Clyde Arc at Pacific Quay and others at Tradeston and
Springfield Quay.
The South Side also includes many great parks, including
Linn Park, Queen's Park, Bellahouston Park and Rouken Glen
Park, and several golf clubs, including the championship
course at Haggs Castle. The South Side is also home to
Pollok Country Park, which was awarded the accolade of
Europe's Best Park 2008. Pollok Park is Glasgow’s largest
park and the only country park within the city boundaries.
It is also home to Pollok Cricket Club.
Govan is a district and former burgh in the south-western
part of the city. It is situated on the south bank of the
River Clyde, opposite Partick. It was an administratively
independent Police Burgh from 1864 until it was incorporated
into the expanding city of Glasgow in 1912. Govan has a
legacy as an engineering and shipbuilding centre of
international repute and is home to one of two BVT Surface
Fleet shipyards on the River Clyde and the precision
engineering firm, Thales Optronics. It is also home to the
Southern General Hospital, one of the largest teaching
hospitals in the country, and the maintenance depot for the
Glasgow Subway system.
North Glasgow
North Glasgow extends out from the north of the city centre
towards the affluent suburbs of Bearsden, Milngavie and
Bishopbriggs in East Dunbartonshire and Clydebank in West
Dunbartonshire. However, the area also contains some of the
city's poorest residential areas. Possilpark is one such
area, where levels of unemployment and drug abuse continue
to be above the national average. Much of the housing in
areas such as Possilpark and Hamiltonhill had fallen into a
state of disrepair in recent years. This has led to large
scale redevelopment of much of the poorer housing stock in
north Glasgow, and the wider regeneration of many areas,
such as Ruchill, which have been transformed; many run-down
tenements have now been refurbished or replaced by modern
housing estates. Much of the housing stock in north Glasgow
is rented social housing, with a high proportion of
high-rise tower blocks, managed by the Glasgow Housing
Association.
Not all areas of north Glasgow are of this nature however.
Maryhill for example, consists of well maintained
traditional sandstone tenements. Although historically a
working class area, its borders with the upmarket West End
of the city mean that it is relatively wealthy compared to
the rest of the north of the city, containing affluent areas
such as Maryhill Park and North Kelvinside. Maryhill is also
home to Firhill Stadium, home of Partick Thistle FC since
1909, and briefly the professional Rugby Union team, Glasgow
Warriors. The junior team, Maryhill F.C. are also located in
this part of north Glasgow.
The Forth and Clyde Canal passes through this part of the
city, and at one stage formed a vital part of the local
economy. It was for many years polluted and largely unused
after the decline of heavy industry, but recent efforts to
regenerate and re-open the canal to navigation have seen it
rejuvenated.
A huge part of the economic life of Glasgow was once located
in Springburn, where the engineering works of firms like
Charles Tennant and locomotive workshops employed many
Glaswegians. Indeed, Glasgow dominated this type of
manufacturing, with 25% of all the world’s locomotives being
built in the area at one stage. It was home to the
headquarters of the North British Locomotive Company. Today
the French engineering group Alstom's railway maintenance
facility in the area is all that is left of the industry in
Springburn.The
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