Glasgow St Rollox in 1894 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Two versions have been published for this area. Coverage stretches from Bishop Street eastward to Hobden Street, & from Gourlay Street southward to Kennedy Street. Railway features include St Rollox Works, Sighthill Goods station, Hyde Park Locomotive Works, Garngad station, Barnhill station, St Rollox coal & mineral depot, Craighall goods station, much of Buchanan Street station & approaches, St Rollox station, Pinkston mineral depot, with many junctions, sidings etc. Canals include a stretch of the Forth & Clyde Glasgow Branch, including St Rollox Basin, Spiers Wharf North, timber basin. Other features include Germiston Works, Petershill Brewery, Sighthill Cemetery, Port Dundas, St Rollox Chemical Works, Port Dundas Distillery, Milburn Chemical Works, Townhead church, St Joseph`s House, & many smaller factories & works. Barony Poorhouse is near the top right corner. Selected street directory entries on the reverse include Garngad Road, Kennedy Street, Parliamentary Road & Springburn Road (1894 map), & Castle Street, Charles Street, Dobbies Loan, Kennedy Street, Keppochhill Road & Petershill Road (1933 map). About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Glasgow St Rollox in 1933 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Two versions have been published for this area. Coverage stretches from Bishop Street eastward to Hobden Street, & from Gourlay Street southward to Kennedy Street. Railway features include St Rollox Works, Sighthill Goods station, Hyde Park Locomotive Works, Garngad station, Barnhill station, St Rollox coal & mineral depot, Craighall goods station, much of Buchanan Street station & approaches, St Rollox station, Pinkston mineral depot, with many junctions, sidings etc. Canals include a stretch of the Forth & Clyde Glasgow Branch, including St Rollox Basin, Spiers Wharf North, timber basin. Other features include Germiston Works, Petershill Brewery, Sighthill Cemetery, Port Dundas, St Rollox Chemical Works, Port Dundas Distillery, Milburn Chemical Works, Townhead church, St Joseph`s House, & many smaller factories & works. Barony Poorhouse is near the top right corner. Selected street directory entries on the reverse include Garngad Road, Kennedy Street, Parliamentary Road & Springburn Road (1894 map), & Castle Street, Charles Street, Dobbies Loan, Kennedy Street, Keppochhill Road & Petershill Road (1933 map). About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Streetfinder atlas of Glasgow at 1:15, 800 from Collins, with enlarged city centre mapping & additional tourist information, covering Cumbernauld in the north, Clydebank & Erskine in the north west, Johnstone in the west, Airdrie & Motherwell in the east & Newton Mearns, East Kilbride & Larkhall in the south. Street mapping is clear with muted colouring showing one-way streets, park & ride stops, railway lines & stops, & subway stations; local facilities such as fire & police stations, & post offices are highlighted. The enlarged city centre section shows streets in greater detail at Approx. 1:8, 000, with the post code boundary overprinted for central Glasgow.A section at the back of the atlas has useful phone numbers & contact details for tourist sites, as well as information on entertainment, art & architecture, museums, & more. ...

Glasgow Then & Now takes many of these classic archive photos of the city & compares them to the scene today. It reveals a transition from an industrial city based around the Clyde, its docks & great shipyards, to a modern twenty-first-century economy. Today, the shipyards are all but gone, but the docks are finding new purpose as evidenced by some spectacular comparisons between old & new. Some 70 historic photographs of Glasgow`s past are paired with specially commissioned contemporary views taken from the same vantage point. You can see the same streets & buildings as they were `then` & as they are `now`. It

Includes:: the Cathedral & Necropolis, Provand`s Lordship, the Tontine Building, Saltmarket, City Chambers, Royal Exchange, St Enoch Hotel, Jamaica Bridge, Doulton Fountain, Argyle Street, Sauchiehall Street, Britannia Music Hall, Glasgow University, Gallowgate, Trongate, Gorbals, Queen`s Dock, Yorkhill Dock & Hampden Park. Part of the bestselling ` Then & Now` series, this charming contrast of old & new photographs highlights the stunning changes
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- of one of the most culturally thriiving cities in Britain, its well-known places but also some of its hidden gems.



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Glasgow in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Regional wall map of Glasgow, Edinburgh & Central Scotland at 1:200, 000 (3.2 miles to 1inch) from A to Z, covering: Glencoe, Dundee, St. Andrews, Kirkcaldy, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ayr, & Oban. Clear presentation of the road network shows motorways, A & B roads, some minor & local roads, with gradients of 1:5 & steeper indicated. Service stations, railway lines & stops, ferry terminals, & airports are clearly marked. Tourist information such as points of interest & local facilities are prominently highlighted with a variety of symbols. Topography is shown by altitude tints, if in rather broad bands, with spot heights (in feet) & additional colouring for woodland areas; the National Grid is overprinted on the cartography. National & unitary authority boundaries are indicated. There is an index for cities, town, & villages at the edge of the map. ...

Waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active version of map No. 64 from the Ordnance Survey’s Landranger series at 1:50, 000, with contoured & GPS compatible topographic mapping plus tourist information.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: As well as the physical edition of the map, each Landranger title now

Includes:: a code for downloading after purchase its digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS LANDRANGER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Landranger series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. Maps in the Landranger series provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways restricted or open to motorized traffic. National Trails & selected other long-distance paths are marked, as well as on-road & traffic-free cycle routes with their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. National Trust/ National Trust for Scotland & Forestry Commission land is clearly marked, indicating open or restricted access. A range of symbols highlights camping & caravanning sites, youth hostels, tourist information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, World Heritage sites, sport & recreational facilities, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of topography with contours at 10m intervals, numerous spot heights & additional colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards or parkl&, rock features including scree & cliffs, water features inland & along the sea shore with marshl&, dunes, s&, mud, shingle & the high water mark. All the standard information expected of survey mapping at this scale is included: finely graded road network, railway lines with stations, cuttings, embankments, etc; individual isolated buildings; archaeological & historical sites, etc. For GPS users the British National Grid is shown at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1` & cross hairs on the map at 5`. Each map covers an area of 40 x 40km, (approx. 25 x 25 miles).

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Paper version of map No. 64 from the Ordnance Survey’s Landranger series at 1:50, 000, with contoured & GPS compatible topographic mapping plus tourist information.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: As well as the physical edition of the map, each Landranger title now

Includes:: a code for downloading after purchase its digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS LANDRANGER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Landranger series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. Maps in the Landranger series provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways restricted or open to motorized traffic. National Trails & selected other long-distance paths are marked, as well as on-road & traffic-free cycle routes with their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. National Trust/ National Trust for Scotland & Forestry Commission land is clearly marked, indicating open or restricted access. A range of symbols highlights camping & caravanning sites, youth hostels, tourist information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, World Heritage sites, sport & recreational facilities, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of topography with contours at 10m intervals, numerous spot heights & additional colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards or parkl&, rock features including scree & cliffs, water features inland & along the sea shore with marshl&, dunes, s&, mud, shingle & the high water mark. All the standard information expected of survey mapping at this scale is included: finely graded road network, railway lines with stations, cuttings, embankments, etc; individual isolated buildings; archaeological & historical sites, etc. For GPS users the British National Grid is shown at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1` & cross hairs on the map at 5`. Each map covers an area of 40 x 40km, (approx. 25 x 25 miles).

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Glasgow, Stirling & the Clyde Cycle Map at 1:110, 000 from Sustrans, including Lochs & Glens South & North routes, & The Forth & Clyde Canal route, plus three day rides: Renfrewshire Route, East Kilbride Loop, & Bridge of Allan to Dunblane. Street plans show Glasow, Stirling, Balloch, Dunblane, Dumbarton, & Kirkintilloch. Maps is this Sustrans series show all the National & Regional Cycle Network routes clearly numbered & have the colouring distinguishing between the on-road & traffic-free sections. The publishers’ own recommendations are shown in contrasting colour &, in most titles, are in addition presented on the reverse side on separate panels where each circuit is annotated with useful notes. The maps have contours & altitude colouring to show the topography, with additional gradient markings. Towns along the routes are annotated with symbols indicating what facilities can be found there. Also marked are various places of interest, on or near the routes, & railway lines are shown with stations for access to the routes by rail. On the reverse each title also provides large, clear city centre street plans of main towns, highlighting the Cycle Network and/or the recommended routes. Also included are contact details of tourist information centres. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past & present to offer a taste of Glasgow. Learn about the movers & shakers who shaped this fantastic city. The great & the good; the bad & the ugly. Small wonders, tall stories, TRIUMPH & tragedy. Best places
- worst places. Local lingo, architecture, green spaces, events, traditions, fact, fiction. Origins, evolution, future. Written by a local who knows what makes Glasgow tick.
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