City of Glasgow Bank information

The City of Glasgow Bank was a bank in Scotland that was largely known for its spectacular collapse in October 1878, which ruined all but 254 of its 1...

Glasgow City Council. The city is a member of the Core Cities Group, having the largest economy in Scotland and the third-highest GDP per capita of any...

savings banks were reorganised into regional banks in 1975 Glasgow became the core of the West of Scotland TSB. The first Glasgow Savings Bank was formed...

Clydesdale Bank plc is a retail and commercial bank in Scotland. It was formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1838 and now trades as Virgin Money. With its immense...

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Glasgow City Centre is the central business district of Glasgow, Scotland. Is bounded by Saltmarket, High Street and Castle Street to the east, The River...

Glasgow Green is a park in the east end of Glasgow, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde. Established in the 15th century, it is the oldest park...

-4.244 The City of Glasgow College (Scottish Gaelic: Colaiste Baile Glaschu) is a further and higher education college in the city of Glasgow. It was founded...

City of Glasgow Police or Glasgow City Police was the police covering the city and royal burgh of Glasgow, from 1800 to 1893, and the county of city of...

feudal landowner, the Earl of Stair, and finally abandoned after the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank in 1882; aspects of the village's street layout...

Glasgow Tower (formerly known as the Millennium Tower) is a 127 metres (417 ft) free-standing landmark observation tower located on the south bank of...

Riverside Museum (replacing the preceding Glasgow Museum of Transport) is a museum in the Yorkhill area of Glasgow, Scotland, housed in a building designed...

example of the little trouble the public take to think for themselves". The bank's main founders were John MacGregor, a Member of Parliament for Glasgow, and...

in Glasgow. The cathedral was the seat of the Archbishop of Glasgow, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Glasgow and the Province of Glasgow, until...

self-education. However, the financial panic following the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank in 1878 virtually wiped out McAlpine financially: his mortgages...

even though the Bank of England kept interest rates as high as 9 percent in the 1870s. The 1878 failure of the City of Glasgow Bank in Scotland arose...

the model for future savings banks. By the end of World War two, it was second in size only to the Glasgow Savings Bank. In 1975, Edinburgh merged with...

(Angel), Broomielaw, Glasgow (1854) Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow (1855) City of Glasgow Bank, Greenock (1856) Park Parish Church, Glasgow (1856) Monument to...

to its members, probably a comfort after the events of 1878. In that year the City of Glasgow Bank collapsed creating widespread financial uncertainty...

restore Glasgow to national and international prominence. The festival site covered 120 acres (0.49 km2), including 17 of water, on the south bank of the...

slowed after the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank in 1878 which led to a contraction in credit from London, the centre of the world's financial system...

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University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Ghlaschu) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland...

the City of Glasgow Bank. The hydropathic spa, meanwhile, was "an elegant new baths building, named Ardvullin, erected a little to the north of the village...

terminus of the West Coast Main Line (397 miles or 639 kilometres north of London Euston). As well as being Glasgow's principal inter-city terminus for...

This was somewhat delayed after the state of recession caused by the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank in the same year, leading to a contraction...

of business by the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank. In November 1879, he emigrated to the Turtle Mountain area of southern Manitoba. Alexander was...