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Coat of
Arms
Here is the Bird that never flew |
This engraving depicts the tenement at 27 to 39 Gallowgate, which was demolished in 1872. The Elephant and the Black Boy taverns were originally on the ground floor but were converted into shops as shown here.
The antiquarian James F S Gordon considered the buildings of no historical interest unless they were of interest to the police, which suggests that they had an unsavoury reputation. The name Black Boy tavern however is intriguing as it may have some connection with Glasgow's role in the slave trade. It was relatively common in the 18th century for fashionable families to "own" a black servant boy, although a Court of Session judgement in the 1770s made it clear that a slave purchased in the Colonies could not be held and treated as such in Scotland
As many of you have ancestors
from the Calton and Bridgeton areas of Glasgow I thought this might be of
general interest.
The Calton began when land between the Gallowgate and Glasgow Green was feued
out by John Walkinshaw in 1705 as a weavers' village, ideally placed within easy
reach of the Glasgow markets, but just outside the town and the control of the
Glasgow guilds. The best-known episode in the history of Calton is the weavers'
strike of summer 1787, when members of the Clyde Weavers' Association protesting
against wage cuts were fired on by the military. Three of the six who died are
interred in the Weavers' Lair in the Calton burying ground. Still standing in
the Gallowgate are the Saracen's Head Inn, once the terminus for the London
coach, and Heilan Jessie's, the favourite tavern of the Highland soldiers
billeted in the infantry barracks opposite, and of the entirely Gaelic-speaking
workforce recruited by George Mackintosh to keep secret the processes in his
chemical works
Glasgow Green
Come and explore Britain's oldest public space....
Following extensive renovation work which commenced in 1999, the city's oldest park has been restored as an attraction for both Glasgow and for visitors from around the world.
Glasgow's oldest park extending for 129 acres has been the location for many political, social and sporting events for over 300 years. Glasgow Green's major structure is the recently restored Winter Gardens, containing a museum, cafe, toilets and disabled facilities. Another main feature is a two-acre children's play village and a major football-centre at Flesher's Haugh
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