Glasgow Works, formerly the St Rollox Works, is a railway rolling stock heavy maintenance and repair works established in the 1850s in the Glasgow district...
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Glasgow (UK: /ˈɡlɑːzɡoʊ, ˈɡlæz-, ˈɡlɑːs-, ˈɡlæs-/ GLA(H)Z-goh, GLA(H)SS- ; Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu [ˈkl̪ˠas̪əxu]) is the most populous city in Scotland...
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relating to both the glass and the pottery works. The Verreville Glassworks was established by a group of Glasgow merchants in 1777. Workmen were brought...
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Glasgow Corporation Water Works and its successors have provided a public water supply and sewerage and sewage treatment services to the Scottish city...
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Springburn (redirect from Springburn, Glasgow)
works and the village became a parish in its own right. The Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway first opened in 1831 to supply the St Rollox Chemical Works and...
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The Glasgow Subway is an underground light metro system in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground rail transit...
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Glasgow Cathedral (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais Ghlaschu) is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the oldest cathedral...
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colleagues, Charles Atherton, was the resident engineer for the Works. It became the first in Glasgow to be lit by electricity. Between 1895 and 1899 it was replaced...
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St Rollox Chemical Works was a industrial manufacturer of chemicals located in Glasgow, Scotland, that began in the Georgian era in 1799 and operated...
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her...
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The Glasgow School was a circle of influential artists and designers that began to coalesce in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1870s, and flourished from the...
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Riverside Museum (redirect from Glasgow Museum of Transport)
Riverside Museum (replacing the preceding Glasgow Museum of Transport) is a museum in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, housed in a building designed...
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the City of Glasgow in 1912. The area was once host to mass employment in the industrial age thanks largely to the large Fullarton steel works (now occupied...
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The Glasgow Tolbooth was a municipal structure at Glasgow Cross, Glasgow, Scotland. The main block, which was the meeting place of the Royal Burgh of Glasgow...
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Kathleen Glasgow (born April 12, 1969) is an American New York Times-bestselling author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling novel Girl...
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The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; Scottish Gaelic: Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate...
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Paul Sweeney (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
(MSP) for the Glasgow region in the 6th Scottish Parliament, elected in May 2021. He previously served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North East...
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CAF Newport Dick, Kerr & Co Drewry Car Co Dübs & Co English Electric Glasgow Works Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Hawthorn Leslie & Company...
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closest connection to Queen Street for the Glasgow Subway network. The station underwent major redevelopment works by Network Rail in the late 2010s. In October...
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Glasgow Central (Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu Mheadhain), usually referred to in Scotland as just Central or Central Station, is one of two principal mainline...
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locomotives of the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR). The G&SWR had its headquarters in Glasgow with its main locomotive works in Kilmarnock. The...
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the time, Sir David Richmond whose tube works were located nearby – across busy Rutherglen Road, one of Glasgow's main arterial routes. Notable features...
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Philip Raskin (category Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art)
Philip Raskin (born 1947 in Glasgow) is a Scottish artist who has achieved notability within the contemporary Scottish art scene. He specialises in painting...
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University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Ghlaschu) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded...
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North British Locomotive Company (redirect from North British Locomotive Works)
merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp, Stewart and Company (Atlas Works), Neilson, Reid and Company (Hyde Park Works) and Dübs and...
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of Glasgow city centre, with its boundaries defined by infrastructure: the neighbourhoods of Sighthill (once the site of the St Rollox Chemical Works) and...
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Provan Gas Works is an industrial gas holding plant in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The plant lies between the Blackhill, Blochairn, Germiston and Provanmill...
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Glasgow, Scotland. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Queen's College, Glasgow (founded in 1875) and Glasgow Polytechnic (originally Glasgow College...
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Glasgow Tower (formerly known as the Millennium Tower) is a 127 metres (417 ft) free-standing landmark observation tower located on the south bank of...
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& MacLellan continued to operate in the original Sentinel Works in Jessie Street, Glasgow until the 1950s. They produced a wide range of engineering...
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