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martin wrote:You can just about make out a "compiled for <something>'s 'History of Glasgow' 1919" at the bottom of the page.
amcd wrote:Interesting...
I wonder what happened to the 'Burn called Glasgow' shown on the map as well.
Is it the Kelvin?
Seamey wrote:Doesn't Mitchell St follow the path of an old burn?
If you go down there the cobblestones even look like a meandering river.
amcd wrote:Seamey wrote:Doesn't Mitchell St follow the path of an old burn?
If you go down there the cobblestones even look like a meandering river.
I see what you mean.... they've set darker cobblestones in a wavey meandering pattern. I could swear on that the other maps I've seen the burn looks slightly further east than Mitchell St/Lane, below Frasers and the Lighthouse.
St. Enoch's burn, now tunnelled over in modern West Nile and Mitchell Streets, was, in Barrie's time, an open trouting stream, with rows of trees on its banks.
We now come to the year 1736. At this date the population would not exceed 15,000 persons, living in ten streets and seventeen lanes, and on an area of ground scarcely three quarters of a square mile in extent. It was well provided with bridges, however, there being twenty altogether, and of stone--twelve being within the liberties, and eight without.
Of these twelve, one was over the Clyde at the foot of Stockwell Street, three over St. Enoch's Burn, and eight over the classic Molendinar.
by 1777 the flagstone pavement had been extended westward as far as St Enoch's Burn (now below Union Street and Jamaica Street)
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