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William Collins, Sons & Co., often referred to as Collins, was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, the minister of Tron Church in Glasgow.
Templeton On The Green, converted from the Templeton Carpet Factory, is a distinctive building near the People's Palace, in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 1892. [1] In 1984 it was converted into the Templeton Business Centre, then in 2005 a major regeneration project made it into a mixed use 'lifestyle village' incorporating apartments, office space, and the WEST brewery, bar and restaurant.
Robert Wallace Forsyth was born Inveresk, East Lothian in 1843, one of ten children of Mary Wallace and Alexander Forsyth (1806-1891), whose family had farmed near Eddleston, Peeblesshire in Scotland since the 1700s. [2] [3] Forsyth was married to Martha Sproull and they had thirteen children. [4] He died on 31 January 1937 and is buried in ...
It became a limited company, Askit Ltd., on 13 April 1925. The former Askit factory, Saracen Street, Glasgow. An expansion of the factory in the 1930s was opened by Lord Provost Alexander Swan. It employed around 40 people. In 1940 they started a campaign to begin sales abroad, beginning with ex-Scots living in Canada.
The shop was opened in 1886 by Tam Shepherd [3] before being operated by the Walton family. [4] It is the oldest joke and magic shop in the world. [5] In 2017, the shop was identified as Glasgow's favourite business at the Glasgow Business Awards. [6] In 2018, the shop hosted the Good £uck art exhibition as part of Glasgow International 2018.
Luma Tower, Glasgow. Located in the western suburb of Linthouse, the building was constructed in 1938 as a light bulb factory and was the Glasgow headquarters of the British Luma Co-operative Electric Lamp Society Ltd, a joint venture by the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS), the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) and their Swedish counterpart the Swedish Co-operative Union. [4]
Hugh MacDonald (4 April 1817 – 16 March 1860) was a Scottish journalist, poet and author from Glasgow. He wrote for the newspaper the Glasgow Citizen for many years under the pen name 'Caleb'. [ 1] He is best known for his book Rambles Round Glasgow, published in 1854 by Thomas Murray and Son; [ 2] a version with modern footnotes was ...
Charles Frank was born in Vilkomir, Lithuania, in 1865. By 1910 he had immigrated to Glasgow and set himself up first as a mechanic. After a few years he married another immigrant, Miriam Lipetz, and eventually opened a shop at 67 Saltmarket [1] for the design, sale and repair of photographic and scientific apparatus.
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