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SIR JOHN MOORE, THE HERO OF CORUN-
NA, WAS BORN IN THE YEAR I761 IN A
BACK ROOM OF THIS OLD HOUSE AT THE
CORNER OF TRONGATE AND NELSON STREET

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THIS CLOSE WAS SITUATED ON THE WEST

SIDE OF THE HIGH STREET ABOVE BELL

STREET. IT WAS ERECTED IN THE EARLY

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

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THE TONTINE WAS ORIGINALLY AN ASSEM-
BLY HALL ERECTED BY A COMPANY IN 1 782
ON THE TONTINE SYSTEM. THE CROSS
STEEPLE IS ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE
OLD TOLBOOTH BUILT IN 1626, WHICH DID
DUTY FIRST AS COUNCIL CHAMBER AND
LATER AS PRISON. NEAR BY STOOD THE
OLD CROSS, REMOVED IN 1 659.

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THE MOST PROMINENT FEATURE OF THE
OLD VILLAGE OF GORBALS WAS THE BAR-
ONIAL HALL OF SIR GEORGE ELPHINSTONE,
PROVOST OF GLASGOW IN 1605, AND LORD
JUSTICE CLERK 1625-1628. THIS HOUSE
WAS SUBSEQUENTLY ADDED TO BY VIS-
COUNT BELHAVEN WHO ACQUIRED THE ES-
TATE FROM THE ELPHINSTONE FAMILY.

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VI.

THE OLD BUILDING KNOWN AS THE DUKE's
LODGING WAS SITUATED ABOUT THE SPOT
WHERE DRYGATE AND ROTTENROW MEET
THE HIGH STREET. THE PROPERTY OF
THE STEWARTS OF MINTO, IT WAS BOUGHT
IN 1605 BY THE MONTROSE FAMILY WHO
OWNED IT UNTIL 1746. IT TOOK ITS NAME
FROM JAMES, FIRST DUKE OF MONTROSE.

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VII.

THE LAIGH KIRK WAS IN PRE-REFORMA-
TION DAYS THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF
ST MARY, STANDING IN TRONGATE. ON
THE REMOVAL OF ITS PAPAL FURNISHINGS
AND DECORATIONS IT WAS CALLED THE
LAIGH KIRK, i.e., THE LOW OR PROTES-
TANT CHURCH, AND AFTERWARDS, FROM
ITS PROXIMITY TO THE PUBLIC WEIGHING
PLACE, THE TRON KIRK.

VIII.

THE SUGAR HOUSE IN THE GALLOWGATE,
KNOWN AS THE EASTER SUGAR HOUSE TO
DISTINGUISH IT FROM THE OTHERS, WAS
BUILT ABOUT 1669. BY THE MIDDLE OF
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE GLASGOW
SUGAR REFINING TRADE HAD BECOME EX-
CEEDINGLY PROSPEROUS, NO LESS THAN
FOUR OTHER REFINERIES FLOURISHING
IN THE CITY.

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IX.

THIS COURT ENTERED FROM NO. I57 HIGH
STREET. THE HOUSE HAS BEEN IDENTI-
FIED AS THE FAMILY MANSION OF GEORGE
PORTERFIELD, PROVOST OF GLASGOW IN
1645. IT WAS KNOWN AS THE HOUSE OF
PORTERFIELD.

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THIS OLD HOUSE WAS SITUATED AT THE
CORNER OF STOCKWELLSTREET AND GREAT
CLYDE STREET. THE OLDER PART OF THE
BUILDING, SHOWN BEHIND THE OTHER,
IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN THE OLD CUSTOM
HOUSE, WHICH STOOD NEAR THE BRIDGE
OF GLASGOW.

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IN THE TRONGATE STOOD FROM THE FIF-
TEENTH CENTURY THE TOWN WEIGHING
MACHINE, OR TRON, AND HERE ALSOAVERB
SITUATED MANY OF THE HOUSES OF THE
WEALTHIER BURGESSES. THE ORIGINAL
NAME OF THE STREET WAS ST THANEW'S
GAIT.

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XII.

THE SALTMARKET WAS FORMERLY KNOWN
AS THE fuller's ROAD (WALCARGAIT) ON
ACCOUNTOF THE SCOURERSOF CLOTH WHO
PLIED THEIR TRADE ON THE BANKS OF
THE MOLENDINAR BURN. IN LATER TIMES
THE SALT MERCHANTS HAD THEIR BOOTHS
THERE AND FROM THEM THE STREET HAS
TAKEN ITS NAME.

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XIII.

AN OLD CLOSE SITUATED ON THE NORTH
SIDE OF THE GALLOWGATE. HERE STOOD
SOME OF THE LAST SURVIVING OLD WOOD-
EN HOUSES IN GLASGOW, MOST OF WHICH
WERE SWEPT AWAY BY THE GREAT FIRES
OF THE YEARS 1652 AND 1677.

XIV.

THE HIGH STREET, OR GREAT STREET,
WAS THE OLDEST AND FOR SEVERAL CEN-
TURIES THE MOST IMPORTANT STREET IN
GLASGOW. THE ILLUSTRATION GIVES A
REPRESENTATIVE EXAMPLEOF ONE OF THE
OLD COURTS ENTERING FROM IT.

XV.

STANDING AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE
OLD GLASGOW BRIDGE THE OLDER NAME
OF GORBALS WAS BRIDGEND. DURING THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE VILLAGE WAS
LARGELY OCCUPIED BY WEAVERS. IT HAS
NOW BEEN SWALLOWED UP BY GOVAN, AL-
THOUGH THE NAME OF THE PARISH STILL
SURVIVES.

XVI.

THE LANDS ADJOINING THE GALLOWMUIR
WERE ACQUIRED IN 1705 BY MR JOHN
WALKINSHAW, WHO BUILT THE VILLAGE
OF BORROWFIELD OR BARROWFIELD, NOW
BRIDGETON. THE ESTATE BECAME IN 1 724
THE PROPERTY OF THE TOWN, WHO SOLD
IT A FEW YEARS LATER FOR FEUING PUR-
POSES TO JOHN ORR OF BARROWFIELD.

XVII.

A PICTURESQUE ALTHOUGH DILAPIDATED
CLOSE WHICH ENTERED FROM THE WEST
SIDE OF THE HIGH STREET. IT CONTAINED
IN ITS BETTER DAYS THE RESIDENCES OF
SMALL BURGESSES. THE NAME, " FIDD-
LER'S CLOSE," IS SAID TO BE DERIVED FROM
THE CALLING OF SOME OF ITS EARLY OCCU-
PANTS.

XVIII.

AN OLD CLOSE IN THE SALTMARKET IN
WHICH A FEW WOODEN-FRONTED HOUSES
SURVIVED UNTIL A LATE DATE. IN THE
EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY ALL THE
HARDWARE MERCHANTS HAD THEIR PLA-
CES OF BUSINESS IN THIS LOCALITY.

XIX.

THE GALLOWGATE FORMERLY LED OUT TO
A TRACT OF WASTE GROUND KNOWN AS
GALLOW MOOR WHERE EVIL-DOERS WERE
EXECUTED. THE NAME OF THE STREET
DATES BACK FOR FULLY FOUR CENTURIES.

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THESE OLD HOUSES, BOTH OF WHICH WERE
OCCUPIED AS TAVERNS, STOOD NEAR THE
CROSS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE HIGH
STREET. ON THE BUILDING TO THE RIGHT
IS SEEN A SPECIMEN OF ONE OF THE AR-
CADES OR PIAZZAS, WHICH IN THE EAR-
LY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WERE TO BE
FOUND IN THE FRONT OF ALMOST EVERY
BUILDING NEAR THE CROSS.

XXI.

THE DRYGATE ON ACCOUNT OF ITS CLOSE-
NESS TO THE CATHEDRAL WAS FORMERLY
OCCUPIED CHIEFLY BYPREBENDAL MANSES
AND THE RESIDENCES OF VARIOUS CHURCH
OFFICIALS. THE BUILDING SHOWN TO THE
LEFT OF THE DRAWING WAS AT ONE TIME
A HOUSE OF CORRECTION.

XXII.

BELL STREET, OR BELL's WYND, BETWEEN
THE HIGH STREET AND CANDLERIGGS, WAS
BUILT TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEVEN-
TEENTH CENTURY. IN IT FOR MANY YEARS
W^AS A WELL-KNOWN MEAT MARKET AND
LATER THE POLICE OFFICE.

XXIII.

THE BRIDGEGATE WAS UNTIL THE EARLY
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ONE OF THE MOST
FASHIONABLE QUARTERS OF THE CITY ; IN
IT RESIDED THE WEALTHIER MERCHANTS
AND EVEN THE NOBILITY. THE STEEPLE
SHOWN IN THE ILLUSTRATION IS THAT OF
THE MERCHANTS' HALL, ERECTED IN 1659.

XXIV.
M'PHERSON STREET TAKES ITS NAME FROM

JOHN m'pherson of blantyre,on whose

LAND THE STREET WAS BUILT, AND WHOSE
COAT OF ARMS IS TO BE SEEN ON THE HOUSE
AT THE SOUTH CORNER FACING THE HIGH
STREET. MANY OF THE HOUSES IN THIS
STREET WERE DEMOLISHED WHEN THE
EAST SIDE OF THE HIGH STREET WAS
REBUILT.

XXV.

STOCKWELL — THE WELL PROTECTED BY
STOCKS OR STAKES — WAS IN OLDEN TIMES
ONE OF THE CHIEF SOURCES OF WATER
SUPPLY FOR FISHERMEN AND BOATMEN
ON ACCOUNT OF ITS PROXIMITY TO THE
RIVER. ALTHOUGH THE WELL ITSELF WAS
REMOVED MANY YEARS AGO ITS NAME
STILL SURVIVES.

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