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lively atmosphere and entertaining vignettes of Glasgow life
make it an offbeat diversion from shopping-mall banality.
Sat & Sun 10am-5pm.
Farmers' market Mansfield Park, just off Dumbarton
Road; map p.184-185. The countryside comes to
Glasgow, with forty vendors selling fine Scottish produce
and tempting snacks. Second & fourth Sat 10am-2pm.
indie record store with a big range of contemporary CDs,
eclectic vinyl, secondhand stock and re-issues. In the café
itself you can enjoy vegan food, and craft and organic
beers. Mon-Sat 11am-7pm, Sun noon-7pm.
TARTAN
James Pringle Weavers of Inverness 130 Buchanan
St T 0141 221 3434; map p.188-189. If you feel the
need for tweed - and tartan - this is where to come.
Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm.
MUSIC
Monorail Inside Mono café bar (see p.208), Kings
Court, 10 King St T 0141 552 9458; map p.188-189. An
DIRECTORY
Hospital There is a 24hr A&E at the Royal Infirmary, 84
Castle St near Glasgow Cathedral ( T 0141 211 5608).
Internet You'll find terminals at Sip'n'Surf , 521 Great
Western Rd ( T 0141 339 4449).
Left luggage Buchanan St bus station has left luggage
facilities, and there are lockers at Central and Queen St
train stations.
Police Strathclyde Police HQ, 173 Pitt St ( T 0141 532
2000). For emergencies, dial T 999.
Post o ce General information ( T 0845 722 3344). Main
o ce at 47 St Vincent St (Mon-Fri 8.30am-5.45pm, Sat
9am-5.30pm); city centre branch at 87-91 Bothwell St
(Mon-Sat 9am-5.30pm).
The Clyde
he RIVER CLYDE is the dominant physical feature of Glasgow and its environs, an
area that comprises the largest urban concentration in Scotland, with almost two
million people living in a hinterland of satellite towns. West of the city, regular
trains and the M8 motorway dip down from the southern bank of the Clyde to
Paisley , where the distinctive cloth pattern gained its name, before heading back up
to the edge of the river again as it broadens into the Firth of Clyde . Here you have
Wemyss Bay jumping, off point for the lochs and hills of Argyll, and Helensburgh,
birthplace of architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the site of one of his greatest
buildings, the Hill House .
As you head southeast out of Glasgow, the industrial landscape of the Clyde Valley
eventually gives way to far more attractive scenery of gorges and towering castles, and is
also home to a couple of interesting museums. Here eighteenth-century philanthropists
built their model workers' community around the mills of New Lanark , and the
spectacular Falls of Clyde, a mile upstream.
Paisley
Founded in the twelfth century as a monastic settlement around an abbey, PAISLEY
expanded rapidly after the eighteenth century as a linen-manufacturing town,
specializing in the production of highly fashionable imitation Kashmiri shawls. he
town quickly eclipsed other British centres producing the cloth, eventually lending its
name to the swirling pine-cone design.
Paisley Abbey
Abbey Close • Mon-Sat 10am-3.30pm • Free
South of Paisley train station, the abbey was built on the site of the town's original
settlement and was massively overhauled in the Victorian age. Inside the squat grey
building, the elongated choir is illuminated by jewel-coloured stained glass from a
variety of ages and styles. he oldest monument is the tenth-century Celtic cross of
St Barochan.
 
 
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