Exploring Glasgow

day 18 Friday 4 June
Glasgow

Breakfast was also nice in our room below the footpath. We headed off on our day of exploring Glasgow, found the house in St Vincent st where John Steel had lived,

then up a block or so to Blytheswood Square where his brother Robert had lived,

Blytheswood Square

down West Regent Street where their mother died in 1871,

West Regent Street

then York Street where there was nothing left of where they lived around 1830-1850, down to the Broomielaw at the foot of the street and up a riverside path to Glasgow Green, littered and fenced for a pop concert.

Clyde near Broomielaw - reminds me of Melbourne.

We got to The People’s Palace at almost 11 am and decided to stop for a rest. It was a most interesting museum. Then we wandered back into town.  We had a look at Trongate and an interesting shopping centre St Enoch’s under a glass roof, and Central Station with a glass roof over it, then back to the hotel for a rest and lunch at 1.30.

In the afternoon we walked to the uni through Kelvin Grove Park which was quite close to our hotel. It was more recent than 1860, but perhaps Uncles Will and Donald went there in the 1890s when they studied medicine in Glasgow.

Then we crossed the gardens to Park Terrace and the youth hostel which was still closed for refurbishment and down to the Mitchell library which had an art exhibition and we spent a bit of time reading the papers – like who won the French Open?

Then, tired, we headed home for a rest and went out later for a pizza from the Italian place, another bath and a funny TV program called Monster Garage.

from St Vincent Crescent on the left, heading east across the motorway. Glasgow Green and the People's Palace are on the river to the right. The cemetery is above right.

Kelvingrove and the University were above left. Govan was on the south side of the river on the left end.