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Author	eenbiertje
Comment	I would quite like High Street - Saltmarket to be celebrated a bit more, maybe via on street signage and information, as the centre of the early modern centre of the city. Most Glaswegians know this, yes, but there's no information there for tourists. Maybe formally rebrand the High Street - Saltmarket axis all the way from the Cathedral to Glasgow Green as Glasgow "Old Town" or something like this. Have a "plaque trail" showcasing what used to stand on each plot of land, or describing the Glasgow City Improvement Trust's tenement buildings that still stand around there. The "mural trail" has shown that if you give something some very simple connective branding, you can really generate tourist (and local) interest. It would also be very easy to tie the Cathedral, Provand's Lordship, the Necropolis, the Tolbooth Steeple, the Tontine Building, the Mercat Cross, the Mercat Building itself, St Andrews in the Square, McLellan Arch and Glasgow Green as the key landmarks in a single "Glasgow Heritage Trail". Obviously bigger problems going on at the moment, and it's unlikely we'll have waves of tourists visiting Glasgow or Edinburgh again any time soon, but I'm surprised this hasn't already been done as a way of marketing Glasgow to the millions of people who normally visit Scotland every year.
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Created	Mon 21st Dec 2020 9:40pm
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I would quite like High Street - Saltmarket to be celebrated a bit more, maybe via on street signage and information, as the centre of the early modern centre of the city. Most Glaswegians know this, yes, but there's no information there for tourists.

Maybe formally rebrand the High Street - Saltmarket axis all the way from the Cathedral to Glasgow Green as Glasgow "Old Town" or something like this. Have a "plaque trail" showcasing what used to stand on each plot of land, or describing the Glasgow City Improvement Trust's tenement buildings that still stand around there. The "mural trail" has shown that if you give something some very simple connective branding, you can really generate tourist (and local) interest. It would also be very easy to tie the Cathedral, Provand's Lordship, the Necropolis, the Tolbooth Steeple, the Tontine Building, the Mercat Cross, the Mercat Building itself, St Andrews in the Square, McLellan Arch and Glasgow Green as the key landmarks in a single "Glasgow Heritage Trail".

Obviously bigger problems going on at the moment, and it's unlikely we'll have waves of tourists visiting Glasgow or Edinburgh again any time soon, but I'm surprised this hasn't already been done as a way of marketing Glasgow to the millions of people who normally visit Scotland every year.