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History. 1974 image of Bridgeton Cross. It started as a small weaving village in 1705, when the third John Walkinshaw marked out a portion of his Goosefauld estate for rent. [1] .
Bridgeton is a district to the east of Glasgow city centre. Historically part of Lanarkshire , it is bounded by Glasgow Green to the west, Dalmarnock to the east and south, Calton to the north-west at Abercromby Street/London Road and Broad street to the north-east.
Compare vintage landscape photography with modern rephotographs and explore the landscape of Bridgeton, a suburb to the east of Glasgow city centre.
Bridgeton, a suburban town and a quoad sacra parish in Calton parish, Lanarkshire. The town, forming part of the extreme E of Glasgow, lies between Calton on the NW and Barrowfield on the SE; and takes its name from a bridge at its SE end, over the Clyde, on the road to Rutherglen.
Brighton (/ ˈbraɪtən / BRY-tən) is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located 47 miles (76 km) south of London. [1] . Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.
In 1959, his song Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight reached number three in the British charts, and number five in the United States and it sold a million copies. It was quite a moment, back in the early 2000s, when the five-tonne dome atop Bridgeton’s Olympia building was gently lowered back in place.
Glasgow Bridgeton was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Glasgow. From 1885 to 1974, it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
