Day Tours Scotland


Walkin’ Glasgow! 19 MAY to 30 SEPTEMBER 2007 EVERY SATURDAY (West End) and SUNDAY (Merchant City) at 2pm

West End
19 May Dowanhill 26 May Partick 2 June Hillhead 9 June Dowanhill 16 June Partick 23 June Hillhead 30 June Dowanhill 7 July Partick 14 July Hillhead 21 July Dowanhill			28 July Partick 4 August Hillhead 11 August Dowanhill 18 August Partick 25 August Hillhead 1 September Dowanhill 8 September Partick 15 September Hillhead 22 September Dowanhill 29 September Partick
Merchant City
Every Sunday afternoon from 20 May to 30 September.
Starting Points
Merchant City Tours begin at the tourist bus stop at Merchants Square, Wilson Street. All three West End tours begin at the tourist bus stop in Byres Road, just south of University Avenue. Tours will end at the same, or a nearby, bus stop at the discretion of the guide.
Walkin’ Glasgow heritage walking tours are presented by expert local guides in association with the Friends of Glasgow West and Scotguide Ltd. The 90-minute walks will examine the rich architectural and social history of four quintessential neighbourhoods of old Glasgow: the Merchant City, Partick, Hillhead and Dowanhill. *The Walkin’ Glasgow* tours have been designed to educate, inform and entertain the new visitor to Glasgow and the longtime resident alike.**

The Merchant City developed during Glasgow’s first economic boom in the late 18th century, as the medieval city spread westward to accommodate the genteel Georgian townhouses of the Tobacco Lords and other wealthy businessmen. In the 19th century, the Merchant City evolved into a business district. The West End of Glasgow is a superlative example of a Victorian suburb, with a wide variety of handsome villas, terraces and tenements built for the city’s moneyed classes, together with distinguished churches, schools and other fine public buildings. Each West End tour explores a distinct neighbourhood: Partick, a medieval milling village which grew into a centre of shipbuilding and became a proud, working-class burgh; Hillhead, the first Victorian district built west of the River Kelvin and the home of the University of Glasgow since 1870; and picturesque Dowanhill, a residential area with the highest concentration of listed buildings in Glasgow.
Tickets
Tickets are £5.00 per person and can be bought HERE. Tickets are also available from Barrett’s Newsagents, 263 Byres Road (for West End walks) and from the Tourist Information Centre, 11 George Square (for Merchant City walks).