| World / United Kingdom / Scotland / Glasgow, 2 km from center | Coordinates: 55°51'40"N 4°15'0"W |
The official centre of Glasgow. It has gone through several redesigns, none of them have been particularly successful. It is bordered by the City Chambers, the Old General Post Office (currently being converted into flats and shops), and Queen St Station.
The Red Clydesiders
On 31 January 1919, during a strike by engineers 35,000 demonstrators descended on the square and raised the Red Flag. Fearing that this could be the beginnings of a revolution (this was only 2 years after the Russian Revolution and disenchanted troops were still returning from the trenches of the First World War to no jobs), the British Government took a secret decision to order police and troops to charge at the crowd and the ringleaders were arrested. In the following days tanks and machine guns were rolled into the square. This is the first, and to date, only time that British tanks have been deployed on the streets of a British city against its citizens.
Category: square landmark scotland temp names glasgow
 | add your comment in English |