Tour Scotland Video Night Christmas Traffic George Square Glasgow

Tour Scotland night video of Christmas traffic by the Funfair in George Square on ancestry visit to Glasgow, Scotland. George Square was laid out in 1781, part of the innovative Georgian central grid plan of the city`s New Town that initially spanned from Stockwell Street west to Buchanan Street, which reflected the growing rational influence of the Scottish Enlightenment, along with the similar development of Edinburgh's New Town. The square was named after King George III, a statue of whom was originally intended to occupy the centre of the square, but the turmoil and anxiety caused to the city's Tobacco Lords by the War of American Independence in 1775 and eventual British defeat in 1783, coupled with his ever more frequent bouts of madness had created mixed feelings toward the Hanoverian and so it was decided instead to commemorate Sir Walter Scott.

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