Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Buchanan Street Glasgow

Tour Scotland wee travel video Blog of old photographs of Buchanan Street, one of the main shopping thoroughfares in Glasgow, Scotland. Buchanan Street was first feued in 1777 and was named after a wealthy Tobacco Lord and former Lord Provost of Glasgow, Andrew Buchanan of Buchanan. He was proprietor of the ground on which it was formed from Argyle Street as far north as Gordon Street. Andrew had died in 1759 and his tobacco empire was inherited by his son James Buchanan of Drumpellier, also twice Lord Provost of Glasgow. The family made huge losses following the American Revolution of 1776, losing all their plantations in Virginia. Sale of the land was probably at least in part to offset these losses. At its north end are the Buchanan Galleries and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. The Princes Square mall and a flagship branch of the House of Fraser department store are opposite one another further south.

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