Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . whole lands on the west as far as Partick being garden grounds and cornfields. In 17S0 anadvertisement in one of the local papers announces summer quarters to be let at the west end of Rottenrow, in the common gardens. The Candleriggs was opened as a street in 1724, but for a long timethere were few buildings in it. At first it was called the New Street, andit bears that name in MUres History. At the corner of Candleriggsand Bells Wynd was the Wester Sugar-house, among the first, if not thevery first s
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . whole lands on the west as far as Partick being garden grounds and cornfields. In 17S0 anadvertisement in one of the local papers announces summer quarters to be let at the west end of Rottenrow, in the common gardens. The Candleriggs was opened as a street in 1724, but for a long timethere were few buildings in it. At first it was called the New Street, andit bears that name in MUres History. At the corner of Candleriggsand Bells Wynd was the Wester Sugar-house, among the first, if not thevery first sugar manufactory erected in Scotland. It was established in1667 by four merchants in Glasgow. Sugar was then a scarce luxury, K 146 Old Thatched Houses. and it is only within a period comparatively recent that tea and coffeeand potatoes came into use amongst us.^ MUre, referring to thisWester Sugar-house, says that having got a little apartment for boiling sugar, and a Dutchman as master boiler, the undertaking proved very effectual, and their endeavours were wonderfully successful. They. afterwards left this little apartment and erected a larger sugar-works were afterwards established, but for a long time theywere all on a comparatively small scale. So late as 1750 the head of the Stockwell, where the Trongate ended,was the western extremity of Glasgow—the old West Port marking theboundary. Outside of this gate a market for the sale of cattle was heldon the open road. On the south side of the street adjoining what be-came Dunlop Street was a malt kiln and barn, and on the opposite side—near what was afterwards Virginia Street—was a small thatched 1 Potatoes were first introduced into the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright in 1725.—Mr. Maxwell ofMunches, quoted in Murrays Lit. Hist, of Galloway, p. 337. Formation of Streets. 147 hostelry for drovers. To the west of this was a farm-house, standingback from the highwaj-, flanked by byres or outhouses, the gables of
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