Clydeside Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
human settlement in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK
About Clydeside
This region is lowland and has good transport routes, although the Clyde was only navigable by small craft until the 1880s. It has fertile farmland but developed industry from late medieval / early modern times, based on coal and iron from local mines. Glasgow was just one small town among several until 1707 then grew rapidly with transatlantic and other colonial trade, though its shipping and ship-building was based downriver at Greenock. Then a navigable channel was blasted up to the city, and "Clydeside" became synonymous with cranes swinging over the shipyards of Govan, and fights in pubs. City merchants took care to build their mansions and endow public buildings at a little distance from the grime. The quality of housing was poor for most people, even before wartime bombing, and post
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