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GLASGOW

Glasgow displays audacity in everything, from the profile of its
contemporary buildings, such as the titanium-clad structures and
tower of the Science Centre, to the presence of designer clothes
shops and the wit of its people. As recently as the 1970s, this was
a city with a fading industrial history and little sense of direc tion,
but much has changed since then.

Glasgow’s city centre, on the north bank heavy engineering, attracting many
of the River Clyde, has been occupied incomers from poverty-stricken districts
since ancient times. The Romans already in the Scottish Highlands and islands, and
had a presence in the area some 2,000 in Ireland, in the process. Between the
years ago, and there was a religious 1780s and the 1880s the population
community here from the 6th century. exploded from around 40,000 to over
Records show Glasgow’s growing 500,000. The city boun daries expanded,
importance as a merchant town from and, despite an economic slump
the 12th century onwards. between the two World Wars, Glasgow
Historic buildings such as Provand’s clung to its status as an industrial giant
Lordship, a 15th-century town house, until the 1970s, when its traditional skills
remind visitors of its pre-industrial roots, were no longer needed. This was a bad
but modern Glasgow grew from the time, but the city has since bounced
riches of the British Empire and the back; it was named European Capital
Industrial Revolution. In the 18th of Sport in 2003 and hosted the 2014
cen tury the city imported rum, sugar and Commonwealth Games. A £500 million
tobacco from the colonies, while in the project at Glasgow Harbour has
19th century it reinvented itself as a reclaimed the city’s old shipyards
cotton-manufacturing centre. It then and dockland for commer cial,
became a site for shipbuilding and for residential and leisure usage.

Fashionable brasseries in the rejuvenated Merchant City area of Glasgow
Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow

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