Glasgow Scotland

Day 56/Scotland 33

Travelled:25km 

Stay:Glasgow- carpark near Cathedral paid £3.50 day, £3 night N55.8618 W4.2379

Visited:Glasgow sites and museums

We decided to drive into Glasgow city as it was an early Sunday morning and there should be hardly any traffic. Which there wasn’t and we even drove right through the middle of the city. Within half an hour we arrived at the P4N parking we had chosen which was empty bar one other motorhome.

The flip side of it being Sunday is that the earliest the city sites and museums open is 11am. It only took us 15mins to get to the centre, our first stop being George Square which is surrounded by architecturally important buildings and various statues and monuments. These reflect its era of prosperity when ironworks, cotton mills and shipbuilding industries were carried out here.

Glasgow’s sense of humour..Duke of Wellington has had this new hat on since 2011

Shop front full of old sewing machines..

The Tardis..we later learnt there were 300 of these scattered around the city.

Glasgow is Billy Connolly’s birthplace 

There were many grand sandstone building.

 We had found one museum open at 10am so we walked through the centre another 20mins to Tenement House (National Trust nonmembers £7.50pp). 

This modest flat in a tenement estate showcased the life of single lady from 1911 to 1965. We learnt a little on life in Glasgow during that era. 

We then returned to the city center and went to a pub for lunch. 

Scaffolding going overboard..

A bit controversial...selling cannabis products from a police box. 

Going all out with the building decorations 

Fortified we took on the steps of the circular staircase up to the top of the MacKintosh Tower which offered panoramic views of the city. We also had a look at the exhibits on design and architecture.

Another Wully...

 Our next stop was at the Glasgow Police Museum which tells the story about the UK’s oldest police force from 1800 through to 1975. We read lots of interesting stories about certain crimes and the police officers who solved them. 

And I thought theses were children’s toys...

We continued on to The People’s Palace, a Victorian sandstone structure built in 1898 as a cultural museum for the people of Glasgow’s East End, providing social history from 12th century to present day.

Haha Scotland is not short on rain ...

 As we made our way to the Cathedral we passed the Necropolis which is a Victorian Cemetery high on a hill filled with crumbling monuments of wealthy merchant families. 

The promised rain finally came as we popped into the oldest Cathedral in Scotland, built during the 13th century on the site of a chapel founded by the city’s patron saint, St Mungo. His tomb is found in the crypt surrounded by forest of columns and delicately carved rib-vaulting.

 As we sat in the choir section called the Blackadder aisle, we admired the timber ceiling studded with brightly painted carved stone bosses. 

A candle lit in memory of our loved ones who are no longer with us...

The last place we visited today was Provand’s Lordship, the city’s oldest building built in 1471 to house the canon’s of the church. There were once 32 surrounding the Cathedral. 

Feeling weary we made our way back to Bluey and hopefully a peaceful night.