Old Photographs Of The Trongate Glasgow Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of The Trongate, one of the oldest streets in the city of Glasgow. Trongate begins at Glasgow Cross, where the Tolbooth Steeple is situated, being the original centre of medieval Glasgow, and goes westward changing its name to Argyle Street at Glassford Street. It was around the 1560s that the name Trongate first began to be used. The name comes by virtue of a weighbeam erected in the mid 16th century. The weigh beam was where all goods that were brought in from the River Clyde were weighed and taxed. Tron was the Norman French derived Scots term for weighing scales, the region became known as Trongate. The Tron church, built in the 17th century, with its distinctive steeple and clock is the street's best known landmark, and was substantially redeveloped in the 1980s as the Tron Theatre. Historically, in line with the rest of Glasgow's medieval area, Trongate fell into decline following the Industrial Revolution as the city expanded westwards.

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