[128][129][130], Glasgow's South Side sprawls out south of the Clyde. Districts of Shettleston, Tollcross, West of Govan, Cathcart. Yet it was not until after the union of the Scottish and English crowns (1603) that Glasgow grew significantly. Adjacent to the SECC at Queen's Dock is the Clydeside distillery, a Scotch whisky distillery that opened in 2017 in the former dock pump house.[122]. Key banking sector companies have also moved some of their services to commercial property in Glasgow Resolution, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays Wealth, Tesco Personal Finance, Morgan Stanley, Lloyds Banking Group, Clydesdale Bank, BNP Paribas, HSBC, Santander and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Winters are cool and overcast, with a January mean of 5.0C (41.0F), though lows sometimes fall below freezing. Once dominant export orientated manufacturing industries such as shipbuilding and other heavy engineering have been gradually replaced in importance by more diversified forms of economic activity, although major manufacturing firms continue to be headquartered in the city, such as Aggreko, Weir Group, Clyde Blowers, Howden, Linn Products, Firebrand Games, William Grant & Sons, Whyte and Mackay, The Edrington Group, British Polar Engines and Albion Motors.[181]. Television programs filmed in Glasgow include Rab C. Nesbitt, Taggart, Tutti Frutti, High Times, River City, City Lights, Chewin' the Fat, Still Game, Limmy's Show and Lovesick. WebGlasgow Botanic Gardens View on map With an ornate glasshouse at its heart, this is one of Scotlands finest gardens, with a history dating back over 200 years. 8 more. Even then, the December high was above freezing at 1.6C (34.9F) with the low of 4.4C (24.1F). It is home to the Glasgow Barrowland market, popularly known as "The Barras",[123] Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow Green, and Celtic Park, home of Celtic FC. GHA was formed in 2002 with the merger of two of Glasgow's leading clubs at the time, Glasgow Southern RFC and Hutchesons Aloysians RFC. Prior to this, Glasgow had two other professional teams: Clyde (now playing in Hamilton) and Third Lanark (liquidated in 1967), plus four others active in the league in the 19th century: Thistle, Cowlairs, Northern and Linthouse. The first stone bridge over the Clyde was built in 1350. [111] The original medieval centre around Glasgow Cross and the High Street was left behind. Other strategic roads in the city include the East End Regeneration Route, which provides easier access to areas of the East End, linking the M8 to the extended M74. Further along Charlotte Street there stands a modern Gillespie, Kidd & Coia building of some note. Glasgow currently has the seventh largest Jewish population in the United Kingdom after London, Manchester, Leeds, Gateshead, Brighton and Bournemouth but once had a Jewish population second only to London, estimated at 20,000 in the Gorbals alone. WebGlasgow City Centre Walking Tour 327 Walking Tours from $16.78 per adult Scottish Whisky Distillery Tour 9 Full-day Tours from $182.73 per adult Isle of Skye, The Highlands and Loch Ness - 3 Day Tour from Glasgow 34 Bus Tours from $216.08 per adult Guided Celtic Park Stadium Tour 907 Sporting Events from $21.13 per adult Cultural Tours See all Enjoy free WiFi, breakfast, and 24-hour room service. [166], Glasgow has seven synagogues, including the Romanesque-revival Garnethill Synagogue in the city centre. It is the fifth-most visited city in the United Kingdom. The city's new trades and sciences attracted new residents from across the Lowlands and the Highlands of Scotland, from Ireland and other parts of Britain and from Continental Europe. The West End is bisected by the River Kelvin, which flows from the Campsie Fells in the north and confluences with the River Clyde at Yorkhill Quay. WebBy Birdsong2011. "Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland, and the third largest in the United Kingdom. All of the international airports are easily accessible by public transport, with GLA and EDI directly linked by a bus routes from the main bus station and a direct rail connection to PIK from Glasgow Central Station. The "Glasgow's miles better" campaign, launched in 1983, and opening of the Burrell Collection in 1983 and Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in 1985 facilitated Glasgow's new role as a European centre for business services and finance and promoted an increase in tourism and inward investment. In 2007 roughly 20,000 people, a third of all call centre employees in Scotland, were employed by Glasgow call centres. Daniel Defoe visited the city in the early 18th century and famously opined in his book A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, that Glasgow was "the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted". [78] This still ensured Glasgow's coldest month of 2010 remained milder than the isotherm of 3C (27F) normally used to determine continental climate normals. The adjoining urban area includes some of Greater Glasgow's most affluent suburban towns, such as Newton Mearns, Clarkston, and Giffnock, all of which are in East Renfrewshire, as well as Thorntonhall in South Lanarkshire. The prosperity of Glasgows shipbuilding and heavy industry was badly shaken after World War I, and its industry has since tended toward greater variety. He established a church on the Molendinar Burn, where the present Glasgow Cathedral stands, and in the following years Glasgow became a religious centre. The divisions between the two denominations and their respective communities play a major part in sectarianism in Glasgow, in a similar nature to that of Northern Ireland, although not segregated territorially as in Belfast. It is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands. [78] Even this extreme event only matched a normal summer on similar parallels in continental Europe, underlining the maritime influences. Scottish Qualifications Authority and Scottish Enterprise also have their headquarters in the district. [240], From 1966 to 1986, the Glasgow Dynamos played at Crossmyloof Ice Rink. [71], Voter turnout has often been lower in Glasgow than in the rest of the United Kingdom. "From Glasgow's Treasure Chest" (1951), Doak, A M and Young, A M. "Glasgow at a Glance" (1983), Gomme, A H and Walker, D. "Architecture of Glasgow" (1987), Horsey, M. "Tenements & Towers: Glasgow Working-Class Housing 18901990" (1990), Hume, John. The current version (1996) has a gold mural crown between the shield and the crest. Few ancient buildings have survived the industrial era, apart from the cathedral and Provands Lordship (1471), Glasgows oldest house, but the historic district known as Glasgow Cross, just east of the modern city centre, preserves buildings and streetscapes from the 17th and 18th centuries and is well endowed with parks and cultural amenities, including the Scottish Opera, the Scottish Ballet, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. 12. [45] Stay at this 4-star business-friendly hotel in Glasgow. At Paisley, the annual precipitation averages 1,245mm (49.0in). 8 more. [224], The world's first international football match was held in 1872 at the West of Scotland Cricket Club's Hamilton Crescent ground in the Partick area of the city. The city centre is also home to four of Glasgow's higher education institutions: the University of Strathclyde, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow Caledonian University, and to the largest college in Britain the City of Glasgow College in Cathedral Street. The city council was controlled by the Labour Party for over thirty years, since the decline of the Progressives. Dating from 1771 and 1780, both have been well restored. The supporters are two salmon bearing rings, and the crest is a half length figure of Saint Mungo. The opening of the Monkland Canal and basin linking to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Port Dundas in 1795, facilitated access to the extensive iron-ore and coal mines in Lanarkshire. The home club, Glasgow Tigers, compete in the SGB Championship, the second tier of motorcycle speedway in Britain. [3], Glasgow's population influx in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was related to economic expansion as well as internally generated growth with the vast majority of newcomers to the city from outside Scotland being from Ireland, especially the north western counties of Donegal, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Londonderry. Districts of Blackhill, Shawfield and the east end of Glasgow Green. During the 1930s, Glasgow was the main base of the Independent Labour Party. Maryhill is also the location of Firhill Stadium, home of Partick Thistle F.C. Despite its northerly latitude, similar to that of Moscow, Glasgow's climate is classified as oceanic (Kppen Cfb). WebGlasgow Botanic Gardens View on map With an ornate glasshouse at its heart, this is one of Scotlands finest gardens, with a history dating back over 200 years. Glasgow prospered as a market centre because it was well situated between Highland and Lowland Scotland and also between Edinburghthe capital, 45 miles (72 km) eastand the west. The new building is built to a design by Zaha Hadid. With a diverse culinary scene, abundance of pubs and bars as well as some of the UK's best music venues, this is the city for the night owls. In 1450, John Stewart, the first Lord Provost of Glasgow, left an endowment so that a "St Mungo's Bell" could be made and tolled throughout the city so that the citizens would pray for his soul. After the Acts of Union in 1707, Scotland gained further access to the vast markets of the new British Empire, and Glasgow became prominent as a hub of international trade to and from the Americas, especially in sugar, tobacco, cotton, and manufactured goods. A notable local employer continues to be the Wellpark Brewery, home of Tennent's Lager. [20], Following the European Protestant Reformation and with the encouragement of the Convention of Royal Burghs, the 14 incorporated trade crafts federated as the Trades House in 1605 to match the power and influence in the town council of the earlier Merchants' Guilds who established their Merchants House in the same year. The area around Glasgow has hosted communities for millennia, with the River Clyde providing a natural location for fishing. [138], The city's principal municipal library, the Mitchell Library, has grown into one of the largest public reference libraries in Europe, currently housing some 1.3million books, an extensive collection of newspapers and thousands of photographs and maps. The citys BioCorridor brings the public sector, business, and academia together in the research, development, and production of pharmaceuticals, bioinformatics, and medical technology. (2001) council area, 577,869; urban area, 935,760; (2011) council area, 593,245; urban area, 957,620. [207] Subsequent urban renewal initiatives, such as those motivated by the Bruce Report, entailed the comprehensive demolition of slum tenement areas, the development of new towns on the periphery of the city, and the construction of tower blocks. The city was the European Capital of Culture in 1990 and is notable for its architecture, culture, media, music scene, sports clubs and transport connections. [143] Jim Carruth was appointed to the position of Poet Laureate for Glasgow in 2014 as part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games legacy. [69], In the Brexit referendum, results varied from constituency to constituency. Glasgow is a major centre of higher and academic research, with the following universities and colleges within 10mi (16km) of the city centre: In 2011 Glasgow had 53,470 full-time students aged 1874 resident in the city during term time, more than any other city in Scotland and the fifth-highest number in the United Kingdom outside London. They have also won more domestic top-tier league titles than any other football club in the world (currently 55). The fortunes of the Conservative Party continued to decline into the twenty-first century, winning only one of the 79 councillors on Glasgow City Council in 2012, despite having been the controlling party (as the Progressives) from 1969 to 1972 when Sir Donald Liddle was the last non-Labour Lord Provost. [20] In the early twentieth century, many Lithuanian refugees began to settle in Glasgow and at its height in the 1950s; there were around 10,000 in the Glasgow area. It was at this castle Mary Queen of Scots supposedly spent the night before her defeat at the Battle of Langside in May 1568. Central station and Queen Street station are the two main railway terminals. This is Glasgow's "Downton Abbey" and depicts life in the victorian times of Sir John Stirling Maxwell and his family. About 1180 William I designated Glasgow a burgh of barony, and about 1189 it was granted the right to hold an annual fair. Glasgows rich array of cultural institutions also includes the National Theatre of Scotland, the Citizens Theatre, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scotland Street School Museum, and St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art. It is situated along both banks of the River Clyde 20 miles (32 km) from that rivers mouth on the western, or Atlantic, coast. Glasgow's West End grew firstly to and around Blythswood Square and Garnethill, extending then to Woodlands Hill and Great Western Road. Glasgow is a city which has truly embraced its street art. WebApex City of Glasgow Hotel. STV Glasgow merged with STV Edinburgh to form STV2 in April 2017 which eventually closed in June 2018. Although historically a working class area, its borders with the upmarket West End of the city mean that it is relatively wealthy compared to the rest of the north of the city, containing affluent areas such as Maryhill Park and North Kelvinside. Web01 City Centre Mural Trail. Glasgow is a city which has truly embraced its street art. The wider Govan area includes the districts of Ibrox, Cessnock, Kinning Park and Kingston. places. Historically, rowing races on the River Clyde here attracted huge crowds of spectators to watch regattas in the late 19th century and early 20th century;[249] before football caught the public imagination. [29], The 20th century witnessed both decline and renewal in the city. Starting in 1668, the city's Tobacco Lords created a deep water port at Port Glasgow about 20mi (32km) down the River Clyde, as the river from the city to that point was then too shallow for seagoing merchant ships. Another architect who has had an enduring impact on the city's appearance is Alexander Thomson, with notable examples including the Holmwood House villa, and likewise Sir John James Burnet, awarded the R.I.B.A. The original 1866 grant placed the crest atop a helm, but this was removed in subsequent grants. 1,039. Glasgow is home to a variety of theatres including the King's Theatre, the Theatre Royal and the Citizens Theatre and is home to many museums and art galleries, the largest and most famous being the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and the Burrell Collection. WebFeaturing: Pollok House, The Tenement House, The Tearoom at The Botanics, &. [118] Since the late 1980s the construction of many modern office blocks and high rise developments have paved the way for the IFSD to become one of the UK's largest financial quarters. WebThe best time to visit Glasgow is between March and August, when temperatures reach their peak and daylight hours are long. A huge demonstration in the city's George Square on 31 January ended in violence after the Riot Act was read. [18] "The dear green place" remains an affectionate way of referring to the city. WebThe University of Glasgow is a major research-led university operating in an international context with the following fundamental aims: * to provide education through the development of learning in a research environment * to undertake fundamental, strategic and applied research * to make a major contribution to local, regional, national and [151] More recent[when?] It is also home to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in the country, and the maintenance depot for the Glasgow Subway system. 06:42, 17 JAN 2023. WebGlasgow. Most recent recipient of the SLTN Music Pub of the Year award was Bar Bloc, awarded in November 2011. The Mars rover Curiosity, which landed on the planet in August 2012, has drilled at the site. A series of proposals to provide a direct rail link to Glasgow International Airport have ended unsuccessfully, beginning with the Glasgow Airport Rail Link in 2009. It is situated along both banks of the River Clyde 20 miles (32 km) from that rivers mouth on the western, or Atlantic, coast. The south side also includes some post-war housing estates of various sizes such as Toryglen, Pollok, Castlemilk and Arden. As part of the wider regeneration along the banks of the River Clyde, a bus rapid transit system called Clyde Fastlink is operational between Glasgow City Centre to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. The Episcopalian St Andrew's was also known as the "Whistlin' Kirk" due to it being the first church after the Reformation to own an organ. A popular Indian restaurant in Glasgow has closed after six years. The West End Festival, one of Glasgow's largest festivals, is held annually in June. Some of the city's more well-known venues include the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, The OVO Hydro, the SECC, Glasgow Cathouse, The Art School, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut (where Oasis were spotted and signed by Glaswegian record mogul Alan McGee), the Queen Margaret Union (who have Kurt Cobain's footprint locked in a safe), the Barrowland, a ballroom converted into a live music venue as well as The Garage, which is the largest nightclub in Scotland. Since 2007, when local government elections in Scotland began to use the single transferable vote rather than the first-past-the-post system, the dominance of the Labour Party within the city started to decline. Various radio stations are also located in Glasgow. 8 more. Very little of medieval Glasgow remains; the two main landmarks from this period being the 15th-century Provand's Lordship and 13th-century St. Mungo's Cathedral, although the original medieval street plan (along with many of the street names) on the eastern side of the city centre has largely survived intact. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Glasgow's population grew rapidly, reaching a peak of 1,127,825 people in 1938. Overlooking Glasgow Green is the faade of Templeton On The Green, featuring vibrant polychromatic brickwork intended to evoke the Doge's Palace in Venice.[126]. A second company was formed in 1812, and the two merged in 1838, but there was some dissatisfaction with the quality of the water supplied. 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