The new City Chambers initially housed Glasgow Town Council from 1888 to 1895, when it was replaced by Glasgow Corporation.

In 1926, Glasgow Corporation bought the Cardonald estates, They gave opportunity to private development replicating Kelvindale cottage flats By Western Heritable and Council housing in the area.

Cardonald was divided into North and South Cardonald, with the south mostly composed of owner-occupied and privately-rented cottage flats, whilst the north was made up of owner-occupied and rented accommodation owned by Glasgow Corporation, divided by the new Paisley Road West, including terraced houses, flats, and semi-detached property.

Despite fears that the village would end up being swamped by the rapid expansion of nearby Glasgow it managed to avoid this, however of the wider parish of Cadder were eventually absorbed by Glasgow Corporation in 1926, which would be used to construct the Milton peripheral housing scheme from the late 1940s.

In the post-war years, many Govanites were relocated from the town, often reluctantly, to outlying areas such as Drumchapel, Pollok, Darnley, Priesthill and Penilee by the Corporation of Glasgow.

The Glasgow Corporation made many efforts to improve the situation, most successfully with the City Improvement Trust, which cleared the slums of the old town, replacing them with what they thought of as a traditional high street, which remains an imposing townscape.

In the 1960s, Glasgow Corporation decided that a new airport for the city was required.

It was also partly a political decision to silence those that questioned why Glasgow needed two airports when Glasgow Corporation had already invested money building Glasgow International Airport.

From the launch of the station, television for schools was pioneered in association with Glasgow Corporation, and post graduate television services initiated, including surgery, in conjunction with universities.

Managed by Glasgow Corporation, the countryside location moved the girls away from any malign influences to be found in the city and allowed the institution to be self-supporting with livestock and a vegetable garden.

It was created in 1950 for Ernest Greenhill, a former member of the Glasgow Corporation.

Nevertheless, the theories continue to persist and are sometimes actively encouraged, as in the use of " heraldic " street names ( Archerhill Road, Arrowsmith Avenue, Ivanhoe Road, Minstrel Road, Talisman Road, Templar Avenue, Turret Road ) by Glasgow Corporation in Knightswood, even though Knightswood only appears in the records from the 18th century, long after the days of knights.

In 1958, Glasgow Corporation opened a Fire Station which now houses a specialist water rescue unit.

The Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive ( GGPTE ), the forerunner of SPTE, started operations in 1973, taking over the entire municipal owned and operated bus, and Underground railway, services of Glasgow Corporation Transport ( GCT ), which had been in existence from 1894 to 1973.

In 1973, Martin was elected as a Labour councillor on Glasgow Corporation, a position he held until his election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

He went to Glasgow and was employed as a car conductor with the Corporation Tramways for several years.

Castlemilk House, a stately old mansion built around Cassilton Tower, which was started in 1460 on the site of a 13th century castle, was demolished by Glasgow Corporation in 1969.

In December 1952, Glasgow Corporation approved a sketch layout plan for the construction of a new township at Castlemilk with an estimated cost of £ 16m.

In the Wallace Gallery in London are " Watering Cattle " and " Cattle in Stormy Weather "; in the Glasgow Corporation Gallery is a " Landscape with Cattle "; the Louvre contains his famous " Oxen at Work " and " Returning to the Farm "; while the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other galleries in America contain fine examples of his pictures.

His views of distant cities, such as that of Haarlem in the possession of the marquess of Bute, and that of Katwijk in the Glasgow Corporation Galleries, clearly indicate the influence of Rembrandt.

The renovation of her model by Glasgow Museum of Transport revealed that she had vermilion funnels with black bands and black top.

Category: Transport in Glasgow

Category: Transport in Glasgow

However, the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport no longer has any input into specifying rail services in the Glasgow area.

On 9 December 2007 as part of a reshuffle of rail franchises by the Department for Transport, services from Birmingham New Street to Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central via Crewe were transferred from the CrossCountry franchise to the InterCity West Coast franchise.

The red police box, as seen at the Glasgow Museum of Transport

There was also a red police box preserved in the Glasgow Museum of Transport but this was returned to the Civil Defence Trust after Glasgow City Council decided it did not fit in with the new Transport Museum.

* Glasgow and District Transport Plans-1951 with details of Queen Street and proposed new station

Category: Transport in Glasgow

Category: Transport in Glasgow

Category: Transport in Glasgow

* British Transport Police ( national railways in Great Britain, London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Midland Metro, Tramlink, Tyne and Wear Metro-Sunderland extension, Glasgow Subway )

Category: Transport in Glasgow

The principle predecessor to SPT was the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive ( GGPTE ) set up in 1972 to take over the Glasgow Corporation's public transport functions and to co-ordinate public transport in the Clyde Valley.

Up until 1986 SPT ( and the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive before it ) was directly responsible for running the municipal bus services in Glasgow, and owned both the buses and the necessary supporting infrastructure.

The Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive ( GGPTE ) was created in 1972 to oversee all suburban railways in the Glasgow area.

The Multum port was developed – with a view to using Pascal as a systems programming language – by Findlay, Cupples, Cavouras and Davis, working at the Department of Computing Science in Glasgow University.

The University of Glasgow, where Smith was Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy, changed the name of its Department of Political Economy to the Department of Economics ( ostensibly to avoid confusing prospective undergraduates ) in academic year 1997 – 98, making the class of 1998 the last to be graduated with a Scottish Master of Arts degree in Political Economy.

* Book of the Month article from the Glasgow University Library's Special Collections Department

In 1964, the College began courses to train students for the youth and community service ; in 1967 it began courses for social workers ; in 1968 the Glasgow School of Speech Therapy moved to Jordanhill and became the Department of Speech Therapy ; and in 1970 all the training of teachers for further education colleges in Scotland was centralised in a School of Further Education.

Upon his return to Scotland in 1950, he joined the University of Glasgow ( Veterinary School ) where he established the Physiology Department and developed an interest in the way adrenaline affects the human heart, particularly those suffering from angina.

At the request of the Scottish Education Department, the Sisters of Notre Dame opened the Dowanhill Training College for Catholic School-Mistresses at Glasgow in 1895.

The Eichengrün version was ignored by historians and chemists until 1999, when Walter Sneader of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow re-examined the case and came to the conclusion that indeed Eichengrün's account was convincing and correct and that Eichengrün deserved credit for the invention of Aspirin.

The Eichengrün version was ignored by historians and chemists until 1999, when Walter Sneader of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow re-examined the matter and concluded that Eichengrün's account is convincing and correct and that Eichengrün deserves credit for the invention of Aspirin.

This was cleared by the UK Department of Trade and Industry in March 2003, partly because it was persuaded the papers would keep their editorial independence under Gannett's ownership and because of Gannett's creation of a new Scottish division to run the acquired papers from Glasgow.

In 1912, the College Club at the University of Glasgow went into liquidation and the QM Union took over the premises at 67 Ann Street ( now Southpark Terrance ) until 1922 when it moved across the road from the Glasgow University Union ( GUU, which only admitted men ) in the John McIntyre Building, to be based at 1 University Gardens ( left, now part of the Department of History ).

From 1974 until 1990 Palliser was a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Thom helped to develop the Department of Aeronautics at Glasgow University and lectured on statistics, practical field surveying, theodolite design and astronomy.

* Illustrations of Tristram Shandy — Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department.

The area is at the east end of Glasgow on London Road, and it was often said that Glasgow Corporation Transport Department invented the name so that curious tourists and city dwellers would travel there thus increasing revenue.

At the time the RHS Shows Department was working on four new events for 1993, in Birmingham, Harrogate, Wembley, and Glasgow.

Chris Philo ( born 1960 ) is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, the University of Glasgow.

* " Professor Chris Philo is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ", Latest News, Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

* First-( part of First Group ) who are the successors to the former Glasgow Corporation Transport Department, and the former Central and Kelvin subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group.

After victories at Glasgow and Lexington, Price continued his march westward, in the direction of Kansas City and Fort Leavenworth, headquarters of the Federal Department of Kansas.

After his victory at the Battle of Glasgow, Price continued his march westward, in the direction of Kansas City and Fort Leavenworth, headquarters of the Federal Department of Kansas.