Step Into History
Walk Glasgow in 1888
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Step Into History · City walk
Clydeside Glasgow, 1888
Glasgow in 1888 is the great industrial and mercantile city now often called the 'Second City of the Empire': a place of shipyard cranes along the Clyde, new municipal grandeur at George Square, and a popular International Exhibition in Kelvingrove Park. This walk moves from the river's working waterfront through the commercial streets and emerging West End to a high riverside vantage, showing the city's shipbuilding, shops, public life and the spectacle of the exhibition.
35 scenes — 21 streets, squares and views, 14 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Glasgow as it stood in 1888 (“History of Glasgow”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Govan Waterfront Approach
- 2. Fairfield Shipyard, Govan
- ↳ Fairfield Engine Shop · interior
- 3. Finnieston Quay
- ↳ Warehouse Counting House · interior
- 4. Anderston Quays
- 5. The Broomielaw Quay
- ↳ Customs Office Counting Room · interior
- 6. Jamaica Street Basin
- 7. St Enoch Square
- 8. Argyle Street
- 9. Buchanan Street
- ↳ Exchange Trading Room · interior
- 10. Sauchiehall Street
- ↳ Sauchiehall Tearoom · interior
- 11. George Square & City Chambers
- ↳ Marble Staircase and Vestibule · interior
- 12. Trades Hall, Glassford Street
- ↳ Trades Hall Assembly Room · interior
- 13. Ingram Street
- ↳ Textile Counting Room · interior
- 14. Glasgow Cross & Trongate
- 15. High Street & Glasgow Cathedral
- ↳ Cathedral Nave · interior
- 16. Saltmarket
- ↳ Saltmarket Meat Market Hall · interior
- 17. University of Glasgow
- ↳ Hunterian Museum Gallery · interior
- 18. Kelvingrove Park Entrance
- 19. International Exhibition, Kelvingrove
- ↳ Exhibition Machinery Hall · interior
- ↳ Exhibition Refreshment Salon · interior
- 20. Kelvin Bridge
- ↳ Kibble Palace Conservatory · interior
- 21. Kelvingrove Hill View