| Comment | Get on Amazon, find yourself a second hand copy of The Second City by Charles Allen Oakley.
I picked up a copy for £1 in Voltaire and Rousseau in the west end (100% worth visiting anyway, but you can usually find decent Glasgow/Scottish interest books there on the cheap).
Anyway The Second City is everything you'd be looking for. A pretty thorough, readable chronology of the city's whole history, with illustrations, newspaper cuttings, photos, maps etc throughout. Runs through everything major from the establishment of the town of Glasgow, through to the post war era and 1950s-60s when it was published. There's a big emphasis on the Victorian Era in the mid to late 19th century, cause that's when the city went through the most development. Cracking book. |
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