Buchanan Street
Pedestrianised shopping street lined with arcades and department stores, topped by a concert hall.
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This audio guide to Buchanan Street in Glasgow turns on the Buchanan family of Virginia tobacco merchants and the year seventeen seventy-seven, when the ground under today's shoppers was first parcelled out for building. It asks whose name the street really carries, and why the dates around that name refuse to line up. Along the way you'll meet a former Lord Provost, his son James, and the American Revolution reaching all the way to the Clyde.
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