Merchant City, Glasgow Glasgow Green as the railways improved

as the railways improved

it looks more west Hollywood than East End Glasgow

and the capped cabbie

and the neon-lit canopy of Sauchiehall Street's Locarno Ballroom has attracted Glasgow's dance-mad youngsters like moths to a flame

Steven Camley cartoon published in The Herald on the 27th March 2024

Merchant City, Glasgow Glasgow Green as the railways improvedA high quality watercolour print. Glasgow Merchant City The area now known as 'Merchant City' was developed from the 1750s onwards. Residences and warehouses of the wealthy merchant "tobacco lords" (who prospered in shipping and, amongst other things, tobacco, sugar and tea) were built in the area. The district west of the High Street formed the historic backbone of the city, the development of what is now known as with wide, straight streets, vistas,