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 # 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.