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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]
Glasgow became one of the richest cities in the world, and a municipal public transport system, parks, museums and libraries were all opened during this period. Glasgow became one of the largest cities in the world, and known as "the Second City of the Empire" after London [although Liverpool , Dublin and several other British cities claim the ...
Another major work was A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, edited by George Godfrey Cunningham, who was a partner at Fullarton, and published in 1856. [5] [6] This provided a concise description of towns, cities, provinces and countries around the world, all beyond the British Isles. [7]
An early map of Glasgow in 1776, centred on Glasgow Cross. The area around Glasgow has hosted communities for millennia, [specify] with the River Clyde providing a natural location for fishing. The Romans later built outposts in the area and, to protect Roman Britannia from the Brittonic speaking Caledonians, constructed the Antonine Wall.
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.
By 1800, cotton was the main industry in the Glasgow area: New Lanark mills were at the time the largest in the world. [35] Early production was aided by the new technology of the spinning mule, water frame and water power. [2] Steam powered machines were introduced into the industry from 1782. [34]
The Gorbals is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and former burgh, on the south bank of the River Clyde.By the late 19th century, it had become densely populated; rural migrants and immigrants were attracted by the new industries and employment opportunities of Glasgow.
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 ...