The Glass Industry

The glassblower, a stained glass by Stephen Adam, an influential stained-glass designer, made for Maryhill Burgh, where each of the windows portray an industry that is happening in the burgh during the time. (Maryhill Burgh Halls, 2019) (Smart, 2002) The Glasgow Glass Bottle works, Firhill Glass bottle works, and the Caledonian bottle works were located along the stretch of the canal along the Bisland aqueduct and Firhill basin. These glass works consequently influenced the naming of its nearby street as Murano street, a reference to the famous Venetian glass works. This site is now cleared and redeveloped as new flats for students’ accommodation. (Smart, 2002)

Antonine wall and the Fourth & Canal