Finnieston
Former dockside district on the Clyde, once home to a towering glass cone and a pottery works.
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This guide to Finnieston in Glasgow follows the people who worked one patch of the Clyde's north bank, starting with a glassworks of seventeen seventy-seven and the crew brought from England and Germany to build its towering brick cone. It turns to John Geddes, his export trade in painted and blue-printed earthenware, and the Staffordshire potters who came after him. Best heard on Finnieston Street, where the works once stood.
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