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The Trongate is a noble street; the park on the banks of the Kelvin, laid out by Sir Joseph Paxton, furnishes some pleasant walks; the Sauchyhall-road is an agreeable promenade;
The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862
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Or head to Trongate 103 103 Trongate, 0141-276 8380, trongate103.com, entry free for exhibitions, creative events and blinis.
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Wholesale Watchmaker and Jeweller, (Late 3, 5, and 7 Trongate) 68 ARGYLE STREET
Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches David Drummond Bone
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Turnbull, bookseller, Trongate, he entered into copartnership with Mr
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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His hotel was a corner tenement, at the head of King Street, near St Giles 'Church, Trongate; and here a club of young men, with which the poet Campbell was connected, were in the habit of holding weekly meetings.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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The style of the Trongate is, if the expression may be used, of a more massy and magnificent character, but there is a lightness in that of Broadway which most people will prefer.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 Various
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St. Enoch Square was a private garden; Argyle St.eet an ill-kept country road; and the town herd still went his rounds every morning with his horn, calling the cattle from the Trongate and the Saltmarket to their pasture on the common meadows in the now densely-populated district of the Cowcaddens.
Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895
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That scene had always been associated in Kirsteen's mind with her sister's name, and something of the flicker of the dying candle was in the blowing about of the lights along the long range of the Trongate, above that babel of noises and ever shifting phantasmagoria of a great city.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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For me, no venerable spinster hoarded in the Trongate, permitting herself few luxuries during a long protracted life, save a lass and a lanthorn, a parrot, and the invariable baudrons of antiquity.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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David looked sharply at his companion but as they were at the Trongate there was no time for further remark.
Winter Evening Tales Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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