Glasgow Green
Historic riverside park of open lawns and walking paths, dotted with monuments and memorial stones.
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This guide to Glasgow Green in Glasgow follows James Watt, the university's young instrument maker, in the seventeen sixties, when he was handed a small model steam engine to repair and could not stop thinking about why it wasted so much. It touches the town guilds that kept him from opening a shop, a Sunday walk across this park, and the plain stone that marks it. Best heard standing just south of the Nelson column.
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