Glasgow – The City Centre
The East End of Glasgow is the home of the Glasgow Green, which is the oldest park in the city dating back to the 15th century. In the early days, the park was an grazing area, an area to wash and bleach linen and an area to dry fishing nets.
The People’s Palace and Winter Gardens were opened on 22 January, 1898 and was intended to provide a cultural centre for the people. In 2005 further work was carried out when the Doulton Fountain was extensively refurbished and relocated to its present position in front of the People’s Palace. This 46 feet high and 70 feet across at its base, is the largest terracotta fountain in the world.
The Templeton Carpet Factory (Templeton Buisness Centre) was modelled like a buildings in Venice, because the wealthy citizens living in nearby did not wish to overlook a factory and it was decided the building should be of appropriate design for such a prominent location in the city.
Today, there have been many live music events on Glasgow green on various scales.
Glasgow – Necropolis and Cathedral
The Glasgow Necropolis was created on a hill above Glasgow Cathedral (High Kirk of Glasgow or St Kentigern’s or St Mungo’s Cathedral) in 1831 and is built as a Victorian Cemetery and around 50.000 individuals have been buried in approximately 3500 tombs.
The main entrance is approached by a bridge and the cemetery is laid out as an informal park, lacking the formal grid layouts of later cemeteries. The most larger monuments stand uphill towards the summit and are clustered around the John Knox Monument.
The University of Aberdeen in the dark
The University of Aberdeen was founded in 1495 by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen and is the third oldest university in Scotland. The modern university was formed in the middle of the 19. century and merged the existing King’s College (Old Aberdeen) and the Marischal College (City Centre).
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral or St Mungo’s Cathedral is located north of High Street and east of Cathedral Street, beside the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The cathedral was built before the Reformation from the late 12th century onwards and serving as the seat of the Bishop and later the Archbishop of Glasgow. The building is a superb example of Scottish Gothic architecture and is one of the few Scottish medieval churches to have survived the Reformation not unroofed.
