Merchant City, Glasgow Glasgow Green it might be Glasgow -has

it might be Glasgow -has just taken an overnight battering

This 1960 snap captures both those emotions

as the railways improved

Originally

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

Merchant City, Glasgow Glasgow Green it might be Glasgow -hasA 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,