Old Travel Blog photograph of the British Linen Bank on the Roman Road in Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland. The British Linen Company, later the British Linen Bank, was established in Edinburgh by royal charter in 1746. The Company was empowered to 2 carry on the Linen Manufactory in all its branches " and was granted limited liability. The word " British£ in its title was an attempt to deflect the suspicion aroused by all things Scottish, after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Company's key promoters were the 3rd Duke of Argyll; Lord Milton; the Earl of Panmure; and George Middleton, a banker from London, England. The Roman Antonine Wall runs through the town and the remains of a military Bath House can be seen near the town centre. Bearsden's Roman Baths can be found a couple of hundred yards east, or downhill, along Roman Road from Bearsden Cross, the centre of the town.
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