The Briggait (Glasgow)

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The old Glasgow Fishmarket, which dates back to 1873 which explains its riverside location, but the “Briggait” nickname has stuck in the memory of younger generations, and is now the building’s current official name. The name comes from the street it is on – Bridgegate – the fish market closed in the 1970s and the building lay derelict until the mid 1980s when it was converted into a boutique shopping mall.

This venture however was doomed from the start – the similar Princes Square development opened around the same period - and was crucially in the far more salubrious surroundings of Buchanan Street. The developers of the period fatally hadn’t learned the lessons from the Anderston Centre a decade before of the perils of building a shopping mall nearly, but not quite in the city centre.

It remained out of use until renovation for use as an arts centre c.2010.