Nice work, that comparison photo
The car maybe says something of the changes.
Josef wrote:When was John Knox Street built (or named)?
It's not there on the OS town plan for 1857, but magically appears on the revision of 1892. It'll be down to the City of Glasgow Improvements Act of 1866, I'm guessing:
"...by far the largest and most comprehensive single undertaking of this kind in the nineteenth century. This Act set up the City of Glasgow Improvements Trust with the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council as the Trustees. The Trust was given powers to buy up (by compulsion where necessary) and knock down 88 acres of Central Glasgow including practically the whole of what was Glasgow in Adam Smith's time, to form 39 new streets and alter 12 old ones ..."
Liberated from: C. M. Allan, 'The Genesis of British Urban Redevelopment with Special Reference to Glasgow',
The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 3. (1965), pp. 598-613.
I'd give some web links relating to the Act but there aren't really any. Which is annoying - there are umpteen for the smaller-scale Edinburgh Improvement Act of 1867, which was very much inspired by Glasgow's. Are Glasgow historians too busy collecting couthy stories?
All the world seems in tune on a Spring afternoon, when we're poisoning pigeons in the park.