Clyde Heritage Guide from Glasgow Green to Dumbarton Clyde Waterfront Atrium Court 50 Waterloo Street Glasgow G2 6HQ www.clydewaterfront.com SE/3010/Sep11 www.clydewaterfrontheritage.com Over 20-25 years an estimated £5-6 billion of public and private investment will regenerate 20km Welcome of the River Clyde. This short guide is designed to help Economic, social and environmental regeneration you explore the Clyde’s heritage from Glasgow city centre to Dumbarton has the whether you are on foot, cycling, potential to deliver: driving or taking a train, bus or boat. There are 12 areas to explore, each • 50,000 new jobs • 24,000 new homes with information and a location map. • 900,000m2 of office, retail, industrial and The guide includes travel information, leisure space. opening hours, web links and a fold-out map of the area. There is Successful regeneration involves linking past and more information on our website, future. The Clyde Waterfront Partnership has www.clydewaterfrontheritage.com developed this guide to ensure that the new developments, landscape, rich history and important We hope you enjoy your visit and we heritage sites along the river are recognised. would value your comments which can be made on the website. We hope this guide will help visitors and local people to enjoy discovering the area. Information was accurate at the time of going to press in September 2011. Since some venues open seasonally we recommend that you check with them before visiting. Clyde Waterfront is a strategic partnership of the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise, Glasgow City Council, Renfrewshire Council and West Dunbartonshire Council. For further information please visit www.clydewaterfront.com Clyde Waterfront Atrium Court 50 Waterloo Street Glasgow G2 6HQ The Clyde The River Clyde has always played an important role in the history of Glasgow. It is often said, Glasgow made the Clyde and the Clyde made Glasgow.As engineers made the river more navigable, the citys commerce and industries flourished. The Clyde is a short river,little more than 100 miles long, rising in the Lanarkshire hills. Upstream it flows swiftly with spectacularstretchessuchasthe Falls of Clyde near Lanark. At Glasgow the river was a shallow estuary with sandbanks and islets known as inches. Downstream, in deep water, Dumbarton, Irvine and Greenock were the main ports, with Port Glasgow established by Glasgow merchants in 1662. ‘Glasgow was checked and Parts of the Upper kept under by the Clyde were canalised. shallowness of her river, From around 1775 every day more and more small coasters could filling [silting] up’, wrote safely come upstream. one of Oliver Cromwell’s From 1818 foreign Glasgow Docks, 1926 Glasgow excise officers in the mid- trading vessels could 17th century. Merchants had to off-load their cargoes at dock at the c1955 a liner, pulling Tug one of the ports and have them carried upriver on pack Broomielaw. Dredgers and blasting continued to deepen horses or in small boats. the Clyde to accommodate ever larger ships. This enabled the huge expansion of Clydeside’s international The tobacco and sugar trade expanded rapidly between trade, shipbuilding and engineering throughout the 1707 and 1800. There was increasing pressure from 19th and early 20th centuries. the ‘tobacco lairds’ to deepen the river so bigger Clyde shipbuilding played a vital role during the early vessels could dock in 20th century, especially during the First and Second Glasgow itself. World Wars. Terminal decline set in during the 1960s with only a few shipbuilding yards now remaining at A succession of brilliant Govan, Scotstoun and Greenock. engineers, including James Smeaton, John Golborne Clyde On the Now the Clyde is experiencing massive regeneration, and Thomas Telford, devised ways of deepening the finding a new identity as a recreational, residential and river. They used dykes to channel the natural scouring business area, fostered by the Clyde Waterfront power of the water. Partnership. NR O K R E ALL M T G E T R S S S E T EGATE R O T M G S O E ST O RID N T B A R C M A R UR IL L T S E LR e L D TR OA M S NT EE D U T E STRE T B R ET 01 Glasgow Green KE N L T M R S ILL U RO A TTE A GR T N K D E I N AV MO S EN E P NC D A R U YK S R T E O N T S B RE E T H R E 1 RE T E E T O R Glasgow Green is one of the most T CHARLO Y H T A T L S 2 C Y ST A E R VE T L NS C ON S ancient public parks in Scotland. Over S M LO TR Glasgow Green O EE N N T N E E E I D TH O R many centuries it provided a welcome G O R O N G W A 3 B River Clyd 4 O T escape from the crowded tenements B 7 AL LA e TE 5 of the old town. In 1450 James II gave R R S D O T A A R O D EE R the land to the Bishop of Glasgow for T L IA IA D T C R E E B CA E M A 6 R M L AR T public grazing. Eventually it became a L T S RU O O A E T LD C T E HE E R R R R T N O G S Suspension Bridge T A L W E D EN L public space protected by the city O E L R E R D S C T D T S A fathers. It has been used as a W washing, bleaching and drying area 1. Justiciary Courthouse 5. Templeton’s Carpet Factory by local people, as a rallying point for 2. The McLennan Arch 6. Glasgow Humane Society Jacobite troops in 1745, a site of public 3. Nelson Monument 7. People’s Palace and Winter Gardens QwZz executions until 1865, and for 4. Doulton Fountain political rallies and public festivals. Q DISABLED ACCESS w TOILETS (WC) Z CAFE/SHOP z PARKING S RAILWAY STATION r SUBWAY STATION The present layout of Glasgow Green dates from 1817-26 represent the world-wide when the ground was levelled and the risk of flooding dominion of Queen on the Lower Green (Fleshers’ Haugh) reduced. Victoria’s Empire. The multi-coloured facade of There is plenty to see. At Templeton’s Carpet the western end stands Factory was designed by the Greek revival Doulton Fountain Doulton William Leiper in imitation Justiciary Courthouse of the Doge’s Palace in Venice. Both date from 1888. (1807-14), designed by William Stark and rebuilt At the far end of the Green, near People’s Palace, 1910 Palace, People’s in 1913. The McLennan St Andrew’s Suspension Bridge, Arch acts as a grand gateway to the Green. It was is the home of the Glasgow originally part of the entrance to the City’s late 18th Humane Society which has century Assembly Rooms, designed by Scots architects been rescuing people from the Robert and James Adam. The obelisk beyond is the river since 1790. Nelson Monument, erected in 1806, only a year after You can explore other aspects of the battle of Trafalgar. Sensationally, it was struck by Glasgow life in the displays and lightning in August 1810, Factory Carpet Templeton’s collections of the People’s when it lost the top 20 Palace and Winter Gardens (1893-98). Green Glasgow feet of the column GLASGOW GREEN TRAILS (since restored). www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Parks_Outdoors/Heritage The figures on the GLASGOW MUSEUMS www.glasgowmuseums.com magnificent terracotta Doulton Fountain Monument Nelson R M L T R E A E S E C E ARGY TR A L E E E E I T ET T R E I N E LE R T M R T A R M T S T S H T ST S S REE S C Central A K T I U N T D C T N N I O B E I E T R S E W O I E E W L 02 Victoria Bridge and the T G T S Station S G E O O C S R R IM A S N U R EA T R E A F S R G W R G I E T O T R I Y N E L Q S S W E E T E T ST S V H E R T S T R U E B ET E R A S T S R EE E T C R E S E R R A T B L T L E E L B R L E T K N S E L D U T D S S T R G M E E H IC W N S K A T T S N E A R O J O 1851-4 R S T C O R R St Enoch Merchant City R I N O TR B R O A N B Y A Argyle GA ST TE L C E C A I E Street A ROOM T B IELA HO W M WA RD T A ST E J O L A late 13th century wooden structure S E L B O R E R H T NE T Broomielaw-Tradeston C OW W E S S L AR K E TRE Y D C R ET Bridge S T on this site was Glasgow’s first bridge, D O T G E RE T S E N T S I S T K T E R VIEW CLYDE R IVER P T E K soon replaced by a handsome eight- S LACE E GA EN E R RD T IDGEGATE E BR A Suspension Bridge R 2 M arched stone bridge built at the D T T Y ROA N LE L S R T C ARL A U E G T N E TO R E E ET O S E O O N N N R X 3 E G F PL instigation of Bishop Rae in 1345.