Merchant City History
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GLASGOW’S MERCHANT CITY Large font version also available – to obtain a copy either call Merchant City Initiative on 0141 552 6060 or visit the website at www.glasgowmerchantcity.net bscureThe OOHistory All efforts have been made in the accuracy of the information contained in this leaflet. The funders are not responsible for any inaccuracies that may occur. T 3 QUEEN ST STATION RICK S CATHEDRAL ST 2 1 5 CASTLE ST RTH FRED O N UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE 4 26 GEORGE SQ 27 GEORG JO E ST UARE H DRICK ST AA N Z KN COCHRANE T FRE HIGH ST ST Y OX S 25 V UTH U ROSE S S 28 T SO HANOVER ST DUKE ST 24 HN ST JO 29 T P 30 MONT 6 INGRAM ST B REET 8 ALBION ST 7 A W QUEEN ST GARTH ST Key HIGH ST 22 INGRAM ST 23 SHERIFF COURT A Q 9 PLAQUES WILSON ST 1 PLACES X C ST E 20 ATM/BANK MILLER T R M D BELL TELEPHONE ST G ST ENOCH VIRGINIA ST S BRUNSWICK ST 21 N WALLS S 11 PARKING ARGYLE ST GLASSFORD ST O N ST HUTCHESON ST 10 100m HIGH ST POST BOX/OFFICE 19 TR H 20 ONGA ALBIO RAILWAY TE CANDLERIGG L O F UNDERGROUND SBO 18 T ST ENOCH RNE ST CENTRE 12 Information J BELL ST WATSON S PARNIE S TOURIST INFORMATION, OSBOURNE ST T I THE CROSS GEORGE SQUARE: 13 0141 204 4400 ST ANDREWS ST WWW.SEEGLASGOW.COM HOWARD ST STOCKWELL ST LONDON RD TRAINS, UNDERGROUND G ST K T E AND BUSES: KIN K R 30 A 0870 608 2608 M WWW.SPT.CO.UK BRIDGEGATE LT SA 16 RISON ST TAXI RANKS: 0141 429BARRAS 7070 (EAST SIDE OF QUEEN ST RIVER C 17 JAMES MOR STATION/QUEEN ST JUNCTION LYDE 15 WITH ARGYLE STREET) G REEN DYK E ST CITY CENTRE REPRESENTATIVES 14 SPOT THE LITTLE RED REPS GLASGOW GREEN Accompanying the “Obscure History Plaques” Aplaced in pavements of the area your quest is to uncover the Merchant City’s hidden history. From the tales of colourful characters to the grisly murder of a flea - the Merchant City vaults have been plundered for this leaflet. This leaflet Deep beneath the modern accompanies “the Merchant City Visitor Guide” listing the various amenities and visitor streets of the Merchant City attractions and “the Merchant City Architecture Trail” which celebrates the rich architecture of lurks an obscure history. the area that you will pass by on your quest. High Street, 19th century St. Mungo Glasgow Cathedral, mid-17th century Mary, Queen of Scots High Street Close, 19th century 1. Cathedral it is a popular haunt for Soon after her arrival in Missing Relics the Glasgow chapter of Glasgow she decided to In the In 1560, the Reformation the Vampire Society. Open dispatch the ailing Darnley I of the Church sent the to the public from dawn to Edinburgh, where shortly Bishop Beaton fleeing to till dusk ...and best avoided after he was murdered. Beginning... Paris. Before he fled he after that! It is believed that whilst rescued a number of staying in the Provand’s ...There was a monk sacred items from the 4. Cathedral House Lordship she wrote the called Kentigern Cathedral. Amongst these Hotel 28/32 “Casket Letters” which relics were: pieces of the revealed her affair with who was visited by Cathedral Precinct Bothwell and implicated Cross of Christ, a casket Established in 1877 as a an angel, who told containing some of the her in the murder of her the monk to head hostel for prisoners being husband. Virgin Mary’s hair, part of discharged from the Duke west. So west the the girdle of the Virgin, Street Prison. The prison monk went. He a fragment of St. stood where we now see a High Street found himself on a Bartholomew’s skin, a modern housing estate. bone of St. Magdalene, Cathedral House was a hill, gazing down a milk from the Virgin, part The High Street is one hostel for both men and of the oldest streets in verdant valley and to of the manger in which women for more than 80 the sparkling waters Jesus was born and fluid the city. Continuing years and contained murals from Castle Street, High of a river. He said which seeped from the painted by the ‘Glasgow tomb of St. Mungo. Street ambles down the ‘Glaschu’ (what a Boys’. When the Duke hill towards Glasgow dear green place) Street Prison closed, so did Cross, carrying with it 2. Cathedral Precinct the hostel and the murals and decided to stay. The precinct in front of were moved to the new tales of poetry, The people who the Cathedral was used for prison, Barlinnie, where mercantile wealth, body lived in the “dear burning witches and they were subsequently snatching and squalor. green place” took a heretics. Glasgow had it’s destroyed in a fire. Two fires in the 17th own Witch Finder General, century almost shine to this monk the Reverend Cooper, who Not surprisingly, this completely destroyed and nicknamed him was so efficient at building is believed to this area, which cost a Mungo, which catching witches and be haunted. small fortune to rebuild. means “dear friend”, gaining their confessions The new buildings that he became known as inspired Daniel Defoe to they even made him “Burning Cooper”. write “the four principle their patron saint, streets... are the fairest and so the history of Also within view of the for breadth and the Glasgow began... Cathedral are: The Magai by finest built that I have (or so legend has it). Peter Howson- ever seen... ‘tis one of 3. The Necropolis one of the new the cleanest, most In 1831 it was decided to Glasgow Boys’. beautiful and best built turn an old pleasure cities in Great Britain.” The Necropolis ground into a garden 5. Provand’s Lordship Sadly this beauty did cemetery. It was named The Casket Letters not survive. In 1853 Necropolis (City of the The story goes that Mary Hugh MacDonald wrote Dead) and makes an Queen of Scots stayed “Sin and misery are impressive backdrop for here when visiting her indeed here to be seen the Cathedral. It was husband, Darnley, who in loathsome union.” designed to be a place of was ill with the pox. She peace and inspiration for and Darnley were far from the local populace. Today happily married, in fact Mary was having an affair with the Earl of Bothwell. Ramshorn Church Glasgow University, 17th century Glasgow University, “Gertrude of Wyoming”, *The University sold this land who turned a rams head A. 175 High Street “The Battle of the Baltic” to the City of Glasgow Union into stone on this spot. 1822, The dingy and “Ye Mariners of Railway Company in 1864 The burial ground attached Bookshop of Duncan England”. His friends were and after that date moved to to the church was a McVean arrived here amongst the greatest it’s current location in popular haunt for the after a spell at 70 High writers of the age and Gilmore Hill. “Resurectionists” who made Street. 1860, James included; Sir Walter Scott, a living robbing graves. Ballantyne operated his Wordsworth. Coleridge, Pawnbrokers Shop from Byron and Keats. Campbell B. 24 College Street A Christian Leg? this site. 1880, Miss J has a statue in George 1813 Medical Students A leg is believed to be Boyd’s Drapers and Square and is buried in would remove bodies from buried somewhere in the Milliners Shop. J & A Poet’s Corner in their graves to study the Ramshorn. The leg was Kay, Tobacconists and Westminster. anatomy of the human found in the garden of a Newsagents. form. The focus for these gentleman who lived on 7. Raising the dead resurrections were the the Candleriggs. Unsure what to do with the leg, Travelling a little further anatomy rooms of Mr Granville Sharp Pattison. he thought to seek the 6. Ye Mariners of down the High Street we advise of the minister at England come to College Street. Their actions were discovered on the 13th the Ramshorn Church. College Street led from When the minister looked 215 High Street: (at the Albion Street to the gates of December when half a corner of Nicholas Street jaw bone and the ring at the leg, he said that he of the old University on couldn’t be sure that the just south of the Old the High Street*. Like its finger, believed to belong College Bar) On the north to Mrs McAllister, buried leg was Christian, so it neighbouring Schools of was buried without facing wall of this Anatomy, the University the previous day in the beautiful red sand-stone Ramshorn Churchyard, ceremony or epitaph to was involved in sensational mark its plot. building (the old British anatomical experiments. In were found in Pattison’s Linen Bank building) is a 1818 Professor Jeffrey rooms. Mr Pattison and plaque commemorating the publicly demonstrated the 3 other stood trial for The Battle of Culloden poet Thomas Campbell. journey of electricity the felonious abstraction through the human body of the body of Mrs Campbell was born in July using the newly invented McAllister. All 4 were 1777, the youngest of 12 Galvanic Battery. For the later released as it could children. He was a experiment he used the not be proven that the boisterous lad, always in body of a murderer, body parts found were fights and prone to pranks Matthew Clydesdale. those of the deceased, and mischief.