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GRAB A GLASS AND GO From industrial centre to moribund grit and back to prominence, Jeremy Freed details how Glasgow shows the marks from the changing tides of history.
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First football game was played here
ROM THE TOP of the Glasgow Necropolis, a view of the biggest city in Scotland spreads out below in shades of green, grey and blue. Occupying a lush, grassy slope on the eastern edge of the city centre, the Necropolis’s moss-covered gravestones and ornate monuments pay tribute to some of Glasgow’s most important citizens of the Victorian era. As impressive as the history of its tobacco barons, war heroes and captains of industry is, the Necropolis is in fact a relative newcomer to the neighbourhood. St. Mungo’s Cathedral at the foot of the hill was consecrated in the 12th century, >
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Oldest underground metro system
Words by JEREMY FREED Natakorn Sapermsap / Shutterstock.com
RIGHT: St. Mungo’s Cathedral in the Scottish Gothic style has dominated the Glasgow skyline from the top of High Street for nearly 900 years
