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Logo used from 2006 to 2015. Gumtree was founded in March 2000 by Michael Pennington and Simon Crookall as a local London classified ads and community site, designed to connect Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans who were either planning to move, or had just arrived in the city, and needed help getting started with accommodation, employment and meeting new people.
Glasgow became a county in 1893, the city having previously been in the historic county of Lanarkshire, and later growing to also include settlements that were once part of Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire. It now forms the Glasgow City Council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and is administered by Glasgow City Council.
Thirty-two cities have a Lord Provost (in Scotland) or a Lord Mayor (in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland), see List of lord mayoralties and lord provostships in the United Kingdom. The six cities where the Lord Mayor or Lord Provost has the right to the style The Right Honourable are York, the City of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow (since 1912 ...
The Tolbooth 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.
Scotland is one of the leading financial centres in Europe, and is the largest financial centre in the United Kingdom outside of London. [315] Edinburgh is the financial services centre of Scotland, with many large finance firms based there, including: Lloyds Banking Group , the Bank of Scotland , the Government-owned Royal Bank of Scotland and ...
This is a list of the counties of the United Kingdom. The history of local government in the United Kingdom differs between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the subnational divisions within these which have been called counties have varied over time and by purpose.
2022 as a city [28] Dunfermline Abbey. In 1070, Margaret, Queen of Scots founded a priory where she married Malcolm III. [47] David I made the priory an abbey in 1128 and built a new church. [47] 54,990 Glasgow: Glaschu Dear Green Place Glasgow City: 1172 [48] or 1175 as a burgh [9] [10] 1476 as a city [11] Glasgow Cathedral
The Debatable Lands lay between Scotland and England to the north of Carlisle, [11] the largest population centre being Canonbie. [12] For over three hundred years the area was effectively controlled by local clans , such as the Armstrongs , who successfully resisted any attempt by the Scottish or English governments to impose their authority ...