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  St Mungo (3) St. mungo's Journey to Glasgow.   HOLDING on his way, Kentigern, '' on the same night in which he departed from St. Serf, was lodged, at a place supposed to be Carnwath, in the house of Fergus, an aged Christian, who, Simeon-like, is said to have received a "revelation that in the presence of the holy Kentigern he should pass away from the world. And when be was dead the blessed Kentigern . . . laid his body on a waggon, to which he yoked unbroken oxen, with no one to guide them: and so, following the waggon, he arrived at a place which is called Glasgow, where he buried the body, and where, serving God, he, by divine revelation, took up his abode."  The body of Fergus was buried beneath some ancient trees, near a forsaken cemetery that had been consecrated by St. Ninian. On that very spot it is said was afterwards reared the transept of our noble Cathedral, and the aisle or crypt of which was dedicated to Fergus. St. Mungo and King Morken  MORKEN,

 #8 Ladywell St Glasgow (1849) From Relics of Ancient Architecture and other Picturesque Scenes in Glasgow, by Thomas Fairbairn, Glasgow 1849 This view looks along Ladywell Street to the Cathedral. This street stood in an area known as 'The Butts'. It was also known as 'Hangman's Brae'. It was in this area in 1787 that the Calton Weavers, during their strike, fought with the military. Dedicated to St Kentigern, or St Mungo as he is known, there has probably been an ecclesiastical building on this site since before 603 A.D., when Mungo was buried here. The earliest part of the present building dates from 1197 when Jocelyn was Bishop.

  Trongate and the surrounding area. AT the time when King William authorised Bishop Joceline of Glasgow to have a Burgh that descriptive term had lost much of its original signification of a Fort, under the protection of which a market could be safely held. It had rather come to imply a market town, equipped with all the usual trading and judicial accessories. In accordance, therefore, with the practice of the period the privileges conferred by the Glasgow charter relate specially to a weekly market and the customs derivable from it. By one of William's statutes it was commanded that all merchandise should be presented at the market and market crosses of the King's burghs and there offered to the merchants, the custom dues being paid to the King.- Each royal burgh had its shire or district, the produce of which must come to its market ; and the Bishop's charter was granted for the purpose of affording corresponding benefits to him and his successors, as territorial lords.

  # 7 Moothill, Glasgow  c1150 Glasgow burgesses are attending their annual meeting to discuss the affairs of the Common Land on the Moothill, near the first Cathedral. Some of the common people have arrived also, apparently, to air a grievance. Other such meetings were held at Springhill near Cowcaddens and the Moothill near the Old Green, down by the Clyde.

  Glasgow - A very long time ago The earliest records of Glasgow are of a maritime order. Down among the alluvial clay of the banks of the Clyde, ancient canoes, or " dug-out " boats, have from time to time been discovered. How long it is since these were deposited it is not easy to say, but very great changes must have taken place on the face of the country since then. Hugh Miller says : " Where the city of Glasgow now stands, three ancient boats one of which is in the Antiquarian Museum, Edinburgh, and another in the Andersonian Museum(  it fell into decline through lack of funding, and when pressure on space increased with the formation of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College in 1887, the major Zoological and Ethnological Collections were given to the Hunterian Museum and the Andersonian Museum closed)   have been dug up since the year 1781 ; the last not many years ago. One of the number was found a full quarter of a mile from the Clyde, and about twent

  Glasgow fair 1825 from the ' Northern looking glass '  The illustration is from 'Northern Looking-Glass' (formally the Glasgow looking glass)Vol. 1. No 4, which was printed and published by John Watson, Lithographic Printers, 169 George Street, Glasgow and cost 1s 6d (15.5 pence). This illustration shows the hive of activity which surrounded the Glasgow Fair during the early part of the 19th century. Initially held on Glasgow Green the Fair was a major event in for the city. The Fair not only brought traders and merchants to the city, but also people from far and wide would come to experience the bustle of activity and to see the various entertainments on offer such as the Penny Geggies.

 # 6 St Mungo's Tomb, Glasgow Glasgow Cathedral. Crypt. St Mungo's Tomb A view from within a cathedral undercroft with a series of vaulted arches supported by compound piers, amongst which are four with decorated capitals standing at the corners of a section of raised floor. The cathedral stands on the foundations of two earlier churches. It dates from the 13th century and is dedicated to St Kentigern or Mungo, whose tomb is sited in Joceline's Crypt. After the Reformation and until the turn of the 19th century, the crypt (known as Joceline's Crypt) was used as the parish church by the congregation of the Outer High parish.

 St Mungo (2) Story of the Robin.  The following is dedicated to my wee pal Zac THE other boys who were being brought up and educated along with St. Mungo by St. Serf are said to have been jealous of the love shown to him by their master, and to have done what they could to do him mischief. One story tells that a favourite tame robin of St. Serf was by accident killed by one or more of his youthful disciples, who laid the blame on Kentigern; whereon he took the bird in his hand, and having made over it the sign of the cross, its life was instantly restored, and it flew chirping or carolling to its master. This is the famous "bird that never flew" of the rhyme on the armorial insignia of the city of St. Mungo.  Story of the frozen branches.  IN the refectory, it is stated, there was a fire which had been sent down thither from heaven, and which st. Serf's disciples watched by turns in the night, one after another, that it might not be suffered to go out. On a certain night

  St Mungo (1) The saint is said to have been born about A.D. 527, and to have been the son of Ewen ap Urien, a prince of Strathclyde, his mother being Thenaw, a daughter of Loth, King of Northumbria, which kingdom then extended along the eastern coast, from the Firth of Forth, or Scots Sea, as it was long named, to the Firth of Tyne. The mother of St. Thenaw is said to have been either an aunt or half-sister of the famous King Arthur. The saint was thus cousin or niece to King Arthur, and sister to the "gentle Oawaine," so renowned as one of the chief knights of the Round Table.  ST. THENAW, or Tennoch (latterly corrupted into Enoch), is said to have been a. believer in the Christian faith, but not baptised until after the birth of her famous son. Her earnest longing is said to have been to preserve her virginity, and to dedicate her life to the service of the Church, but her semi-Pagan father insisted on her marrying the Prince of Strathclyde. Much obscurity rests on the ea

 # 5 Glasgow Green Court-house Glasgow Green Court-house was built as a replacement for Glasgow Tolbooth. The architect, William Stark was selected after a competition with two other architects, David Hamilton and Robert Reid. The work was partly financed by selling the old tolbooth. The court-house was completed in 1814 at a total cost of £34,811. The prison proved to be too small and the building was used exclusively for law-courts after 1845. It became the Justiciary Court in 1913. Further information may be found in CANMORE, the Royal Commission's searchable online database, at  http://canmore.org.uk/site/search .

  Red Unrest The terms ‘Red Clydeside’ refer to the years of intense labour conflict in Glasgow and the urban areas around the city on the banks of the River Clyde from 1914 to 1922. Among the leading activists were James Maxton (1885-1946), John Wheatley (1869-1930), Harry McShane (1891-1988), William Gallacher (1881-1965) and John Maclean (1879-1923). Workers protested against low wages, bad working conditions and the rising prices due to wartime inflation (which had raised the cost of living by about fifty per cent). They also opposed the system of dilution, the use of unskilled male and female workers in areas which were normally reserved for skilled workers. In 1915 the British government passed the Munitions of War Act in order to ensure the uninterrupted production and supply of munitions for the armed forces. It became an offence for a worker to leave his job to work for another firm without his employer’s agreement. The Act also stated that a worker could not refuse to work ov

 # 4 18th century snuff box This brass tobacco box is engraved with the symbols of the malt-making trade and is inscribed with the name of James Crawford, a maltman in Leith. It dates from around 1737. The inscription on the lid reads, 'JAMES CRAWFORD, MALTMAN, LEITH 1737'. Tobacco taking was popular in Scotland from the mid-17th century onwards. Between 1741 and 1771, tobacco imports into Glasgow rose from 8 million to 47.3 million pounds. Most of it was re-exported, particularly to France. This produced great profits for the Glasgow tobacco lords(slavers), who by 1770 controlled almost half of the UK's imports. More than enough tobacco remained for the Scots to become famous for their addiction to it in all its forms, whether smoking, chewing or snuffing.

  19th Century - Income and Wealth The degree of wealth-holding in Scottish society is difficult to measure in the absence of reliable data, but from what research has been carried out into the subject there were some very wealthy Scots in the 19th century and a good deal of prosperous members of the middle classes. Of the forty largest fortunes in Britain in the period 1809-1914, six were Scottish. They included the Lanarkshire ironmasters, William Baird and William Weir, the Paisley thread manufacturers, Peter and James Coats, and Charles Tennant, chemical manufacturer. The only landowner to appear was the third Marquis of Bute. All were worth more than two million pounds when they died. Although on first appearances not as wealthy as some of the industrialists, the landed aristocracy were still fabulously rich compared to most Scots.  The Duke of Sutherland owned 90.5%, or 1,176,343 acres, of Sutherland in 1874 which yielded him an annual rental of £56,395; while the Duke of Buccleu

 #3 Bridge over monkland Canal, Roystonhill This bridge was built to carry Roystonhill (originally Garngad hill) over the Monkland Canal, at the north end of the canal's Townhead basin. It probably replaced an earlier wooden bridge of the standard Monkland Canal pattern. This view shows the bridge from the north west, looking towards the site of the basin. The canal had been drained, and the water culverted, to make way for motorway construction. The cast iron beams were cast by the Hydepark Foundry. This bridge was demolished soon after this photograph was taken. The Monkland Canal had been disused since the 1930s, but was maintained in water because it supplies water to the summit level of the Forth and Clyde Canal.

  1926 Glasgow Whereas the 1917 Royal Commission had recommended that 20,000 new houses should be built every year for the next fifteen years, in 1927 only 82,000 new homes had been built. The following article gives the opinions of a Glasgow MP and of a Medical Officer for Health: “Churchmen and the slum dwellers”,  The Glasgow Herald,  15 December 1926. Churchmen and the slum-dwellers Conference in Glasgow The manner in which churchmen might assist in obtaining improved housing conditions was discussed at a conference representative of churchmen of the various denominations of the city, held in Glasgow yesterday. It was agreed that a deputation should be sent to the Town Council to urge that houses for the lower paid workers be provided more rapidly, and that a “Housing Sunday” should be held early next year. Blot on the City.   Mr E Mitchell, M.P., presided over the conference, which was held at the Christian Institute. He said that the Slum Abolition League existed for the purpose

 #2 Broomielaw Bridge A view over a city river, with many pedestrians, horse drawn vehicles and open top omnibuses on the road bridge. A rail bridge is seen to the left of the road bridge. A cargo vessel is tied up at a quay between the bridges. Now Glasgow Bridge, previously Jamaica Bridge and Broomielaw Bridge. The original Broomielaw Bridge (1768) was deemed inadequate for the city's needs and replaced by one of Telford's design in 1833, which later proved insufficient and rebuilt 1894-1899.

  Fellow Countrywomen - 1838 Until recently little research had been carried out in the history of Scottish women. This situation is slowly changing with more and more articles and books being published on Scottish women’s past. 2 During Queen Victoria’s reign, middle and upper-class women were supposed to stay in the home, as domesticity and motherhood were considered as natural for women; poverty often pushed working-class women onto the labour market (in 1839, two-thirds of the workers in the Scottish textile industry were female). Yet it was more and more thought that the public spheres of work, commerce and politics were the preserves of men. At the beginning of the Victorian period most women did not have aspirations to gain the vote. Female Chartists fought for universal manhood suffrage and not for female suffrage but this letter published in the  Northern Star,  one of the leading Chartist newspapers, demonstrates that not all women thought that it was natural for them to be e

 #1 The Glasgow weaver - by Leon Augustin Lhermitte. Lhermitte greatly admired the work of Millet and like the older artist chose to paint and draw scenes of rural life. In this magnificent charcoal he draws a scene in a weaver's cottage - a young girl is seated, working at a spinning wheel, while behind her a man weaves at a loom by the light from a small window. - 1882 Acquired 1940 by Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

  Fever Epidemic in Glasgow, 1818 Robert Graham was Professor of Botany at Glasgow University and a physician in the city’s Royal Infirmary. In 1818, during the typhus epidemic in Scotland, Graham wrote an account of the condition of the patients he had examined, which, he thought, would help to understand the causes and treatment of this disease (typhoid bacillus was first identified in 1880). ''  If any man wonders at the prevalence of continued fever, among the lower classes in Glasgow, or at its spreading from their habitations, let him take the walk which I did to-day with Mr. Angus, one of the district Surgeons. Let him pick his steps among every species of disgusting filth, through a long alley, from four to five feet wide, flanked by houses five floors high, with here and there an opening for a pool of water, from which there is no drain, and in which all the nuisances of the neighbourhood are deposited, in endless succession, to float, and putrify, a waste away in noxi

 Exit Stage left. (1) On the 24th April, 1595, the Kirk-Session of Glasgow directed the town's drummer to forbid " all persons from going to Ruglen to see vain plays on Sundays-.'" ; - On the 2Oth May, 1624, the session gave  public intimation- 'that all "resetters of comedians  would be severly punished" And on the 2Oth July, 1670, the Magistrates of Glasgow- "interdicted strolling stage players from running through the streets, and from performing plays in private houses," which they called "The Wisdom of Solomon." "The Presbytery," writes Mr. Arnot in his interesting book -  " were possessed with the most violent and the most illiberal animosity against the stage. The writings of their most popular divines represented the playhouse as the actual temple of the Devil, where he fre- quently appeared clothed in a corporeal substance and possessed the spectators, whom he held as his worshippers.'' In theological S