Merchant City
Georgian grid of merchant streets, restored warehouses, bars and galleries built on tobacco wealth.
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This guide to the Merchant City in Glasgow begins on a strip of eighteenth-century pavement and the men in scarlet cloaks who claimed it. It follows the tobacco lords who laid out these streets, the Atlantic trade and enslaved labour behind their fortunes, and a merchant named John Glassford whose name is still on a street sign nearby. Best heard on Glassford Street or near Glasgow Cross, where the old flagstones began.
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