The site of the former Glasgow Cross Station on an island in the middle of Trongate in central Glasgow. Although the station closed in 1964, it still lies beneath the road, and if you keep an eye out on Argyle Line trains as they travel between Argyle Street Station and Bridgeton, you can catch a glimpse of it in the light which spills down through the modern covers erected over it.
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By the end of the 19th century it was part of the Govan Yard, before the basin was constructed around 1920. It's now part of a new riverside park, and it was during the creation of this park that the remains of the tramway was uncovered.
This basin was constructed in the early 1900s on what had been the site of the Govan East Iron Shipbuilding Yard. Also known as the New Yard, it was opened in 1842 by Robert Napier, and Son to build iron-hulled ships using iron from Parkhead Forge. This was one of the first Clyde shipyards dedicated specifically to constructing iron-hulled ships rather than wooden ones.
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The remains of what I think is an old tramway on the side of the basin to the south of the Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow (but it may be rails for one of the travelling cranes shown on the accompanying map from the 1940s).
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Mitchell and Son had been created in Linlithgow in 1723, but transferred to Glasgow in 1820. The founder's grandson, also Stephen Mitchell, ran the business here and when he died in 1874, he left a bequest to establish and maintain a public library in Glasgow. Known as the Mitchell Library, it was established in 1877 and grew to become one of the largest public reference libraries in Europe (which it still is to this day).
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The former Stephen Mitchell and Son Tobacco Factory on Alexandra Parade in Glasgow. It was built in the post-war years, along with the neighbouring Wills Tobacco Factory, with a John Player factory in between the two (all of which were, by then, part of Imperial Tobacco), earning this street the nickname Tobacco Road.
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There are still a few tickets left for my walking tour on Sunday (26 April) looking at the history and architecture of Buchanan Street and its surrounding areas. It will start at 10am and lasting 1.5 to 2 hours. Tickets are £12.50 each and there are 4 spaces out of the original 20 remaining.
You can book a place or find out more about it here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-history-and-architecture-of-glasgows-buchanan-street-tickets-1987383861629?aff=oddtdtcreator
On the bicentenary of this event in 2004, a memorial was erected at Possil Marsh close to the location where it landed (left hand photo). It's one of only two meteorite memorials in the UK (with the other being on Yorkshire).
The Glasgow Tower, built as part of the regeneration of the local area after the dock had been closed in the 1970s and filled in in the 1980s, can be seen through the trees behind it. It opened in 2001.
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The former Prince's Dock Auxillary Accumulator Tower opposite the old Govan Town Hall on Govan Road in Glasgow. Built in 1911, its design is based on a campanile, a free standing Italian bell tower.
It was constructed to power a hydraulic coal hoist for the Clyde Navigation Trust. It's one of the few structures left from what was once the largest dock the city.
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