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The Calton Weavers massacre of 1787 is commemorated in a panel by Scottish artist Ken Currie in the People's Palace, Glasgow, commissioned on the 200th anniversary of the event. [3] Calton at the time of the strike was a handweaving community just outside Glasgow in Scotland. At the peak of Calton's prosperity, wages had risen to nearly £100 a ...
Glasgow Town Council reacquired the land in 1723, naming the area Calton, a name retained when Glasgow sold Calton to the Orr family in 1730. [5] The land lay on the east bank of the River Clyde just upstream of Glasgow. Although close to the center of modern Glasgow, Calton was an independent village, later a municipal burgh, that was not ...
Calton (Scottish Gaelic: A' Challtainn, lit. 'the hazel wood', Scots: Caltoun), known locally as The Calton, is a district in Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde, and just to the east of the city centre. Calton's most famous landmark is the Barras street market and the Barrowland Ballroom, one of Glasgow's principal musical venues.
Calton (Ward 9) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. [2] On its creation in 2007 and in 2012 it returned three council members, using the single transferable vote system. [ 3 ] For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election , the seats increased to four due to the population having risen by 20% since it was first formed, although the ...
The police authority concurred with this view and appointed McCall as Glasgow's Chief Constable with him serving in the position until his own death on 29 March 1888. [14] On 28 June 1972, the inaugural James Smart Memorial Lecture was given by Lord Fraser at the University of Glasgow under the chairmanship of Alick Buchanan-Smith. [15]
Cathedral Square, Glasgow: 1862: John Mossman: Statue on pedestal: Bronze and pink granite: Category B: Q17811583: Lumsden was a stationer, local benefactor and Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1843 to 1846. [2] More images: David Livingstone: Cathedral Square, Glasgow: 1879: John Mossman: Statue on pedestal: Bronze and granite: Category B: Q17811564
Also on Monday, the Springfield News-Sun reported that Simon Kenton and Kenwood Elementary Schools were evacuated due to a threat. Students were being reunited with parents, the outlet posted.
Tongland is a local nickname for the area of Calton, Glasgow controlled in the 1960s by a violent Scottish teenage gang called the Real Calton Tongs. The Tongs financed themselves using a protection racket , levying money on shops within their territory , and they marked that territory out in graffiti with their slogan "Tongs Ya Bass".