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The city expanded rapidly in the second half of the eighteenth century due in great measure to the prosperity brought about by the trade in tobacco, sugar and cotton, and many of the richer merchants moved a short distance westwards from the High Street. A number of them became developers and they built on their own land, thus encouraging the emergence of what we now call `The Merchant City`. Glasgow`s gridiron street layout dates from this time and this regular rectangular pattern was maintained as the city expanded westwards. However, this design failed to spread to the east and south of the city because of the growth of industry in these areas and also because of the exploitation of local deposits of iron ore and coal. Speculative `superior` housing developments were started in a number of the city`s peripheral areas, notably Carlton Place (1802-18) and Blythswood Square (1823), and these provided the wealthy with large and comfortable terraced houses. The tall tenement buildings which became so common in most parts of the city were built for a wide range of tenants and most of those we see today were built in the second half of the nineteenth century.
This article is based on the guidebook "The Glasgow Guide". |
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former St Andrew`s Parish Church is one of the city`s finest Georgian churches.
It has outstanding acoustics and it is now used a music centre. It is modelled on St Martin`s-in-the-Fields in London. |
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