i "w 1115 .5A35 1912 UC-NRLF $B 35T TSb THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA GIFT OF Harriet Nicewonger ■l TpeClTYOr-TtiCW: m^0H-'Lt-mvWMup3A i fmWLBf Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/cityofwest24draw00kingricti Kiy\g'_, J^SS/e^ l^lajrtor^ 3Kb\Cr\^T^ Mi crtTBVpynflMHBWBjH- WPJBHBBi LE ROY PHILLIP5 BOSTON tl9fz^ LOAN STACK GIF! NC/i/S' Ks-Azs- /f/z n A-CLCUC-IH-niGHdTKect • a TMsuvia'a-LOPGiMa - I LAWM-Knoc-eiusae - A«[ABL€-IN"Gie£AT-CI5rt^^WWCT| :^ A^eowRj'Ofr-HKSH-sTwsKs' - CA-'SgMertewraf-ajwiowses- ' d A'MOMse-iM'BcuL-flfnEesT ■ i; J 23r> SIR JOHN MOORE, THE HERO OF CORUN- NA, WAS BORN IN THE YEAR I761 IN A BACK ROOM OF THIS OLD HOUSE AT THE CORNER OF TRONGATE AND NELSON STREET I THIS CLOSE WAS SITUATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE HIGH STREET ABOVE BELL STREET. IT WAS ERECTED IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ■k' "" ^^^^^S i l|P»rs ^^^I^^^^B 1 J ^^B '"^ \1 ^B ^'^:-^ ^B^BESSK^I ^IHdfflCBfT stkcIt-^ THE TONTINE WAS ORIGINALLY AN ASSEM- BLY HALL ERECTED BY A COMPANY IN 1 782 ON THE TONTINE SYSTEM. THE CROSS STEEPLE IS ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE OLD TOLBOOTH BUILT IN 1626, WHICH DID DUTY FIRST AS COUNCIL CHAMBER AND LATER AS PRISON. NEAR BY STOOD THE OLD CROSS, REMOVED IN 1 659. ai«:iiiii:4;iij!aMi^iS(M THE MOST PROMINENT FEATURE OF THE OLD VILLAGE OF GORBALS WAS THE BAR- ONIAL HALL OF SIR GEORGE ELPHINSTONE, PROVOST OF GLASGOW IN 1605, AND LORD JUSTICE CLERK 1625-1628. THIS HOUSE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY ADDED TO BY VIS- COUNT BELHAVEN WHO ACQUIRED THE ES- TATE FROM THE ELPHINSTONE FAMILY. l-^ VI. THE OLD BUILDING KNOWN AS THE DUKE's LODGING WAS SITUATED ABOUT THE SPOT WHERE DRYGATE AND ROTTENROW MEET THE HIGH STREET. THE PROPERTY OF THE STEWARTS OF MINTO, IT WAS BOUGHT IN 1605 BY THE MONTROSE FAMILY WHO OWNED IT UNTIL 1746. IT TOOK ITS NAME FROM JAMES, FIRST DUKE OF MONTROSE. ^^^Sggn^^ VII. THE LAIGH KIRK WAS IN PRE-REFORMA- TION DAYS THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST MARY, STANDING IN TRONGATE. ON THE REMOVAL OF ITS PAPAL FURNISHINGS AND DECORATIONS IT WAS CALLED THE LAIGH KIRK, i.e., THE LOW OR PROTES- TANT CHURCH, AND AFTERWARDS, FROM ITS PROXIMITY TO THE PUBLIC WEIGHING PLACE, THE TRON KIRK. VIII. THE SUGAR HOUSE IN THE GALLOWGATE, KNOWN AS THE EASTER SUGAR HOUSE TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM THE OTHERS, WAS BUILT ABOUT 1669. BY THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE GLASGOW SUGAR REFINING TRADE HAD BECOME EX- CEEDINGLY PROSPEROUS, NO LESS THAN FOUR OTHER REFINERIES FLOURISHING IN THE CITY. r IX. THIS COURT ENTERED FROM NO. I57 HIGH STREET. THE HOUSE HAS BEEN IDENTI- FIED AS THE FAMILY MANSION OF GEORGE PORTERFIELD, PROVOST OF GLASGOW IN 1645. IT WAS KNOWN AS THE HOUSE OF PORTERFIELD. 'A'COJ^T^IHJ^^A CK^^^ X. THIS OLD HOUSE WAS SITUATED AT THE CORNER OF STOCKWELLSTREET AND GREAT CLYDE STREET. THE OLDER PART OF THE BUILDING, SHOWN BEHIND THE OTHER, IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN THE OLD CUSTOM HOUSE, WHICH STOOD NEAR THE BRIDGE OF GLASGOW. Xl. IN THE TRONGATE STOOD FROM THE FIF- TEENTH CENTURY THE TOWN WEIGHING MACHINE, OR TRON, AND HERE ALSOAVERB SITUATED MANY OF THE HOUSES OF THE WEALTHIER BURGESSES. THE ORIGINAL NAME OF THE STREET WAS ST THANEW'S GAIT. 'I 6^Hfflzaa i £ i BLjmjM i bMU'Mi ym SnJ ^^^^^^H^^^^^^^^^^^^HUI i _.^^H < irtK^mvses • in -g ALLWRArq XX. THESE OLD HOUSES, BOTH OF WHICH WERE OCCUPIED AS TAVERNS, STOOD NEAR THE CROSS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE HIGH STREET. ON THE BUILDING TO THE RIGHT IS SEEN A SPECIMEN OF ONE OF THE AR- CADES OR PIAZZAS, WHICH IN THE EAR- LY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WERE TO BE FOUND IN THE FRONT OF ALMOST EVERY BUILDING NEAR THE CROSS. XXI. THE DRYGATE ON ACCOUNT OF ITS CLOSE- NESS TO THE CATHEDRAL WAS FORMERLY OCCUPIED CHIEFLY BYPREBENDAL MANSES AND THE RESIDENCES OF VARIOUS CHURCH OFFICIALS. 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