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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.
Western façade of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art.. The city is notable for architecture designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). Mackintosh was an architect and designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom, designing Glasgow buildings such as the Glasgow School of Art, Willow Tearooms and the Scotland Street ...
Also known as 'Our Lady's Well', Glasgow's Ladywell is an artesian spring noted on early city maps and can be reliably assumed to predate the city. It lay just outside the city wall and Drygate Port in medieval times and will have refreshed Romans traveling the old Carntyne Highway east-west between forts along the Antonine Wall .
In 1806 the house passed to Richard Dennistoun of Dennistoun, Bryce & Co. whose family occupied the house until 1841 after it passed to his son William Dennistoun. [ 3 ] It was briefly owned by a Colin McNaughtan (who never lived in the house) before being purchased by the City of Glasgow around 1845 largely to utilise the 12 acres (4.9 ha) of ...
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 .
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.
At its north-western edge, Albert Bridge is the closest crossing point towards Glasgow city centre. In McNeill Street, Hutchesontown has one of Glasgow's original Carnegie libraries, deftly designed by the Inverness-born architect James Robert Rhind. James Stokes, recipient of the Victoria Cross, was from the area.