Kames could see these stages within Scotland itself, with the pastoral / agricultural highlands, the agricultural / industrial lowlands and the growing commercial (" polite ") towns of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The two became a single local authority district in 1975, before Scottish Local Government reorganisation in the 1990s re-integrated them with Kirkintilloch and Bishopbriggs to form the East Dunbartonshire administrative area, although transport and social networks link the town much more closely with Glasgow itself.

His grandson, also named Wilson Barrett, became an actor director with the Brandon-Thomas Company before starting his own repertory in 1939, the Wilson Barrett Company, which based itself in Edinburgh ` s Lyceum, Glasgow at the Alhambra Theatre Glasgow and for a time in Aberdeen.

In November 1638, the General Assembly in Glasgow, the first to meet for twenty years, not only declared the Prayer Book unlawful, but went on to abolish the office of bishop itself.

Glasgow International also faces stiff competition from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which has reinvented itself as a low-cost hub for budget airlines and which has a direct rail link to Central Glasgow.

It is the generally held belief of residents that Clydebank has far more common interests with other urban towns and districts of the Glasgow Settlement or Greater Glasgow city-region than they do with detached northern rural areas of West Dunbartonshire, although this should not be assumed to have ended the town's identifying itself as part of the historical county of Dunbartonshire, which many residents feel is important in maintaining Clydebank's independent identity from the adjacent City of Glasgow.

Construction of the building posed a number of problems due to its size: firstly, the car park element of the centre had to traverse the railway tracks leading from the adjacent Glasgow Queen Street station, and the mall section itself had to be built over Cathedral Street.

Milngavie itself is situated at almost 400 ft above sea level-sufficient to provide adequate water pressure to the majority of Glasgow without the need for pumping.

Loch Katrine itself changed in 1859 when a dam was built at the eastern end and connecting aqueducts built to bring a new main water supply to Glasgow.

In 1918 the British Workers League re-constituted itself as the National Democratic and Labour Party with the support of George Barnes, Member of Parliament for Glasgow Blackfriars and Hutchesontown, when he resigned from the Labour Party.

Neighbouring districts include the areas of Crossmyloof, Langside and Pollokshaws with Shawlands itself overlapping the Glasgow City Ward map areas 6 ( Polloksheilds ) and 7 ( Langside ).

It is close to the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, the former BBC building on Queen Margaret Drive, and in the vicinity of the University of Glasgow, although all are actually outwith the North Kelvinside area itself.

The company is today headquartered at Buchanan Bus Station in Glasgow, and its services are still operated by franchise partners ; Citylink itself does not operate any vehicles ( one vehicle is owned and operated by West Coast Motors ( of Campbeltown ) to satisfy licensing conditions ).

The neighbouring Glasgow city operator, Strathclyde Buses, was itself employee-owned.

In the 1950s and 1960s this was very famous as a dance hall, coming second only to Glasgow Barrowlands itself.

The parish is located within the Glasgow Archdiocese, although the village itself was not incorporated into the city until 1975 with the revision of local government boundaries.

Glasgow itself was founded by the Christian missionary Saint Mungo in the 6th century.

The village of Bonhill itself featured an early church, and a ford across the River Leven on the drovers ' road to Glasgow.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

There are regular bus services on the route and the town has a railway station on the rail line between Balloch and Glasgow Queen Street.

The Glasgow Coma Scale has three subscales, measuring the best motor response ( ranging from " no motor response " to " obeys commands "), the best eye response ( ranging from " no eye opening " to " eyes opening spontaneously ") and the best verbal response ( ranging from " no verbal response " to " fully oriented ").

Defoe's description of Glasgow ( Glaschu ) as a " Dear Green Place " has often been misquoted as a Gaelic translation for the town.

The City Chambers in Glasgow, Scotland has functioned as the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, and of preceding forms of municipal government in the city since 1889, located on the eastern side of the city's George Square.

The City Chambers has been the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, when it replaced the District Council with the abolition of the Strathclyde Region.

The largest Irish communities are located predominantly in the cities and towns across Britain: in London, in particular Kilburn ( which has one of the largest Irish-born communities outside Ireland ) out to the west and north west of the city, in the large port cities such as Liverpool ( which elected the first Irish Nationalist Members of Parliament ), Glasgow, Bristol and Portsmouth.

Glasgow has departments of Law, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Dentistry — a position that is unique amongst the other universities in Scotland.

Glasgow has led the UK's university debating culture since 1953.

In recent years, independent of the SRC, the Queen Margaret Union has published a fortnightly magazine, qmunicate, and Glasgow University Union has produced the GUUi.

David Russell Hulme, editor of the Oxford University Press 2000 scholarly edition of the score, has attributed the cuts and other changes to the music principally to Harry Norris, musical director of the D ' Oyly Carte at the time of the Glasgow revival, and the modifications to the opera's orchestration, as well as the new overture, to Geoffrey Toye.

In the 19th century Aonghas MacCoinnich of Glasgow proposed that Scoti was derived from the Gaelic word Sgaothaich but this proposal to date has not been met with any response in mainstream place-name studies.

Richmond's elite society has also been portrayed in various popular culture references, such as in 1920s novels by Ellen Glasgow and James Branch Cabell, or the 1990s television sitcom A Different World, which featured the character Whitley Gilbert, an obnoxious and wealthy African American debutante.

This revival of public interest in Mackintosh has, in turn, led to the refurbishing and opening of further buildings to the public, such as the Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow and Derngate, Northampton.

The 19th century author Aonghas MacCoinnich of Glasgow proposed that Scoti was derived from a Gaelic ethnonym ( proposed by MacCoinnich ) Sgaothaich from sgaoth " swarm ", plus the derivational suffix-ach ( plural-aich ) However, this proposal to date has not been met with any response in mainstream place-name studies.

At the heart of Scotland's Central Belt, Stirling has direct road connections to the major cities of Glasgow, via the M80 motorway, and Edinburgh, via the M9 motorway, as well as inter-city rail links from Stirling Railway Station.

To some extent the office of rector has evolved into more of a figurehead role, with a significant number of celebrities and personalities elected as rectors, such as Stephen Fry and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and John Cleese and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political figures, such as Mordechai Vanunu at Glasgow.

In the United Kingdom it has since been revived at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 1986, and at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2006.

He has honorary degrees from Glasgow University ( 1982 ), Calvin College ( 1986 ), North Park College ( 1994 ), the Free University of Amsterdam ( 1995 ), Brigham Young University ( 1996 ), and Valparaiso University ( 1999 ).

Glasgow, the county seat, has numerous manufacturing facilities, and is also a medical and retail hub for the area.

For example, Polar has shipped horses, cattle, race cars and helicopters across the Atlantic ; critically needed supplies to Tsunami victims ; and the rock band Green Day ’ s musical equipment from one tightly scheduled performance in Glasgow to another at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

Glasgow High School has a student population of 228.

In November of the same year matters were taken even further, when at a meeting of the General Assembly in Glasgow the Scottish bishops were formally expelled from the Church, which was then established on a full Presbyterian basis.

As the British forces in the area lost ground under Luftwaffe bombardment, the King and his party were taken aboard the British cruiser HMS Glasgow at Molde and conveyed a further 1000 km north to Tromsø where a provisional capital was established on 1 May.

In Glasgow, similar initiatives have taken place-in 2011, the Glasgow Housing Association saved one of a cluster of three condemned tower blocks in the Ibrox area with the help of government grants to transform it into desirable rented housing for young professionals.

When James Lumsden retired in 1810 the firm was taken over by his son James Lumsden Junior ( who in 1843 became the Lord Provost of Glasgow ).

As none of the issues that had led to the signing of the National Covenant had been settled, it was obvious to all that the Edinburgh Assembly would simply confirm the decisions taken at Glasgow.

In 1938, she escaped from Germany with two hundred other children and was taken to Glasgow, Scotland.

In April 2005, Infratil completed a major £ 3 million refurbishment of the terminal building, and also controversially rebranded the airport using the phrase " Pure Dead Brilliant ", taken straight from the Glasgow patter.

One of the couriers, disguised as a sailor, is attacked by neds in Glasgow and taken to hospital, where he commits suicide rather than submit to questioning.

The Glasgow Central Railway was taken over by the Caledonian Railway in 1890.

Minor refurbishment of the station has taken place over in recent years, which has seen the station internally repainted and paved with new flooring, and the CRT screens that displayed train timetables and passenger information were replaced with new LED information boards similar to those in Glasgow Central Station but smaller, in January 2008.

The earliest found unconfirmed reference to him occurs in September 1462 when a man of his name with license to teach is on record as having taken a post in the recently founded University of Glasgow.

Captain Booth reported the Cleopatra " abandoned and sinking ," but instead she drifted in the Bay until found four days later by Spanish trawler boats, then rescued by the Glasgow steamer Fitzmaurice and taken to Ferrol in Spain for repairs.

Trading ships from France and the low countries were unloaded here and the cargo taken up the River Clyde to Glasgow on smaller boats.

Montgomery was dragged nearly 30-miles to Port Glasgow behind horses to be taken back to Virginia but escaped to Edinburgh before the ship sailed.

He was meditating a missionary tour in Persia when his departure was arrested by steps taken by Thomas Chalmers which, after considerable delay, resulted in October 1819 in Irving being appointed his assistant and missionary in St John's parish, Glasgow.

The injured were taken for treatment to five hospitals in Glasgow ; the most patients were taken to Stobhill Hospital, Western Infirmary and Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and the remaining were treated at Southern General and Victoria Infirmary.

A pedestal of blond sandstone, designed by landscape architect Daniel McKendry, bearing the inscription taken from the Aberdeen Breviary At Length Full of Sanctity and Miracles, Mirin Slept in the Lord at Paisley was erected in 2003 opposite St Mirin's Cathedral at the junction of Incle Street, Gauze Street and Glasgow Road in Paisley.

Among the younger scientists were William Laird McKinlay ( 1889 – 1983 ), a 24-year-old science teacher from Glasgow who was recommended by the Scottish explorer William Speirs Bruce, and Bjarn Mamen ( 1893 – 1914 ), a 20-year-old skiing champion from Christiania, Norway, who was taken on as a forester, despite lacking scientific experience.

In 1544 the castle was besieged and taken by the Earl of Arran and Cardinal Beaton, while the then Earl of Lennox was defending Glasgow Castle.

In 1883 it was taken over by the Glasgow and South Western Railway ( G & SWR ) and it became their head quarters.