Glasgow and Strathclyde, Scotland
The sheltered coastline from Gourock to Ayr gave rise to holiday
resorts and steamer ports for the recreation of the people of Glasgow
This is Burns' Country, with Scotland's
national poet being born at Alloway,near Ayr, and getting much of his inspiration
from the countryside round it.
Golf is taken seriously with course at Troon,
Turnberry and Ayr being of world standard.
Glasgow grew out of the Industrial Revolution, with shipbuilding
on the Clyde. Today the shipbuilding is gone, and Glasgow is re-establishing
itself as a city of culture
- Glasgow
- Glasgow is the third largest city in Britain, even though
its growth only really started 300 years ago. Port Glasgow became an exporting
and importing port for North America, the nearby coalfields supplied the power
for heavy industry like shipbuilding on the Clyde. This industry in turn gave
rise to the rapid growth in population and in slums. These slums have now
been cleared and Glasgow has emerged as a city of culture - becoming the European
City of Culture in 1990
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- In Glasgow you can look out for the following:-
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- Botanic Gardens
- Although founded in 1812, the Botanic Gardens moved to their
present home in 1842. They are on the banks of the River Kibble, and have
an extraordinary, large greenhouse called the Kibble Palace
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- Burrell Collection
- Some 8000 items amassed in his lifetime by Sir William Burrell,
were given to the city in 1944. An exceedingly diverse collection of art -
from the old world and the new, and including perhaps the world's most outstanding
collections of stained glass and tapestries
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- Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
- Among the best art collections in Europe, with additional
displays including furniture
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- Pollock House
- Pollock Country Park contains not only the purpose built
Burrell Gallery, but also Pollock House, with an outstanding collection of
Spanish painting, including Goya's and el Greco's
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- Tenement House
- A flat in a tenement building, constructed in 1892, that
has the same tenant from 1911 to 1965. It was never altered, and remains as
a time capsule that shows you what life in the tenement was like
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- Provand's House
- Built in 1471, this is the oldest house in Glasgow. Built
originally for a canon of the cathedral, it has now been restored and houses
a collection of 17th century Scottish furniture
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