The tour does two loops, one of the east side and the other of the west side. If you have time, the tickets are good for two days and you can hop on and off at any of 24 stops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The People’s Palace on the Glasgow Green – where everyone has a right to graze their sheep. A museum about the people of Glasgow from 1750 – present day. It opened in opened in 1898.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is in front of the People’s Palace and is the largest terra cotta fountain in the world. Behind that fountain is a factory. The factory owner needed permission to locate his factory next to the Green. He was told he could put it there but only if it did not look like a factory.

 

Tennent’s is a type of beer brewed in Glasgow. The original recipe was created after the brewer spent time in Bavaria. This bar was for men only for a very long time. It finally allowed women after they started chaining themselves to the inside in protest.

 

These are somewhat standard old style tenement apartments in Glasgow. A tenement is a building with three or more apartments with a common staircase – now that is just a standard apartment! The more common tenements from back in the day Glasgow featured whole families sharing one room and one shared bathroom for the whole building.

 

This is St. Mungo’s. St. Mungo is the patron saint of Glasgow.

 

 

I couldn’t fit the whole thing into one photo but this is St. Andrews Church. My great-great-great-grandpa, an iron molder, was baptized here September 27th 1818 and married here September 15th 1840.

Nancy