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  What's in a (street) name? The following is not a complete street name directory of old Glasgow. Abercrombie Street. See Bellgrove.  Adam's Court. Built subsequently to Jamaica Bridge by John Adam (1767-1772?). See Jamaica Bridge John Adam built a number of antique-looking buildings in Argyle Street He was also the contractor for the first Jamaica Street footbridge (1768).  Adelphi Street. The Clyde frontage was called Adelphi in honour of the Brothers Hutcheson .  Albion Street Opened 1806. See Greyfriars Wynd (North Albion Street), and Grammar School Wynd (North Albion Street). Albion Street Chapel-the minister in 1794 was the Rev. James MCLeod.  Anderston. Village was formed in 1725 by Anderson of Stobcross upon one of his unproductive farms. Bishop Street, Anderston-James Monteith of this street was the first who warped a muslin web in Scotland. Long before steam mills were introduced into Scotland for spinning cotton, in 1792, Mr. Monteith purchased "bird...

  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.

    POVERTY IN 19th CENTURY SCOTLAND  This engraving from the 1830s shows the Town's Hospital and Poorhouse, built in 1733 on Great Clyde Street  The economic and social changes ushered in by industrialisation dramatised the problem of poverty in Scotland by concentrating it in large pockets within the rapidly growing urban centres. The boom and bust economics of the free market added to the problem as it brought with it periodic mass unemployment which in a pre-welfare society left thousands of workers in poverty. The extent of the social devastation of mass unemployment in Victorian Scotland can be grasped from a comment by the Provost of Paisley made at the height of the 1842 depression: "Unemployment was the rule .... few workmen of Paisley were employed: they were broken up and found to be wandering about in every town in the country, begging for bread, independent of those thousands whom they had at home supported by charity".  Obviously the periodic occur...

  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. ...

  St Kentigern's shrine The cathedral was the principal church of the diocese. The choir for the clergy and presbytery for the high altar are in the eastern limb, and the nave for the layfolk is in the western limb. Between the two parts are the transepts. However, this cathedral, exceptionally, has a vaulted crypt and transepts which do not project beyond the main body of the building. The crypt housed the tomb of St. Mungo, or Kentigern. Enclosed by Gothic arches, the tomb was placed at the centre of the crypt. Although the relics of the saint were removed in the Middle Ages, the crypt provides an area of rest and contemplation. A place of pilgrimage, King Edward I made offering of seven shillings at the great altar and 'ad feretrum Kentigerni' in the late summer of 1301.

  # 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.