Former Glasgow Cattle and Meat Market
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Former Glasgow Cattle and Meat Market
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 12 Jul 2014
This grand archway off Gallowgate is one of the surviving buildings of the once vast meat and cattle market which dominated the area from 1816 until 1997. See the keystone detail here Image Here is a http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/spw053584 to an aerial photo of the site taken in 1937. The surviving buildings are Category B Listed http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:33842 .
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Image Location
Latitude
55.855989
Longitude
-4.229047