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1800: The River Clyde is 14 ft (3.1m) deep, and supports 200 wharves and jetties; there is a large Gaelic community in the city [33] 1800: The Glasgow Police Act is passed by Parliament allowing the creation of the first modern preventative police force [34] 1803: Dorothy Wordsworth visits Glasgow [35]
In 1451, the University of Glasgow was founded by papal bull and established in religious buildings in the precincts of Glasgow Cathedral. By the start of the 16th century, Glasgow had become an important religious and academic city and by the 17th century the university had moved from the cathedral precincts to its own building in the High Street.
30 June – Glasgow Police Act authorises creation of the City of Glasgow Police, which first musters on 15 November. August – the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot is first mustered by William Wemyss at Strathnaver ; in September they are sent from Fort George via Aberdeen to Guernsey and in October formally gazetted into the ...
St Vincent Street, Glasgow viewing east from Hope Street St Vincent Street, Glasgow office headquarter reflections. St. Vincent Street, is one of the major streets in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It was formed in the early 1800s as part of the residential New Town of Blythswood developed by William Harley of Blythswood Square. [1] St.
The slideshow above shows an example of the exciting finds inside a time capsule. But construction workers in the Scottish Highlands may have hit the jackpot with the oldest time capsule.
The development of civic institutions included the City of Glasgow Police in 1800, ... the origins of which can be found in the late 1980s when it attracted artist ...
Pages in category "History of Glasgow" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total. ... Glasgow Police Act 1800; Glasgow razor gangs;
Blythswood Square, Glasgow, looking towards Bath Street and Garnethill. Blythswood Square is the Georgian square on Blythswood Hill in the heart of the City of Glasgow, Scotland. The square is part of the 'Magnificent New Town of Blythswood' built in the 1800s on the rising empty ground west of a very new Buchanan Street.