Grame Smith reveals the history of Blythswood.

Graeme Smith on the making of Glasgow’s first New Town built on the historic Lands of Blythswood.

See and hear about the making of Glasgow’s first New Town built on the historic Lands of Blythswood. Up and over Blythswood Hill, creating all the streets west of a very new Buchanan Street.

Including the creation by weaver William Harley of its streets, first townhouses, vast pleasure gardens, first indoor public baths in Scotland and the first hygienic dairy in Europe. And calico printer James Scott’s expansion of Blythswood to include Bothwell Street and its links west following the Clyde.

With experience in building New Towns and the renewal of cities and economies, Graeme Smith writes and illustrates city life, growth and changes involving businesses, international trading, education and entertainment. He has helped campaigns for the retention and re-uses of important buildings from the formative years of the New Glasgow Society and the Scottish Georgian Society onwards.

This talk is in conjunction with the Blythswood Festival.