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Eldery care home resident fondly reflects on 100 years living in Scotland

Eldery care home resident fondly reflects on 100 years living in Scotland
Sylvia Knox marked her 103rd birthday in style last week at Renaissance Care’s Whitecraigs Care Home and reminisced century she has spent enjoying Glasgow s Southside.
Sylvia celebrated being 103 with some bubbly (Image: Big Partnership)
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Times Past: How the American Revolutionary War was disaster for Glasgow - and how the city came back

THE latter years of the 18th century are often portrayed as Glasgow’s boom time, and indeed there is no argument that the city enjoyed a period of great prosperity before and after the year 1800.
The boom years were largely due to the vast increase of shipping on the River Clyde, especially after the river was deepened so that bigger vessels could make it to the Broomielaw.
Before that boom, however, there was the small matter of a war, a war with America, to be precise, and that war was disastrous for Glasgow.
The reason why Glasgow suffered was the trade in tobacco and cotton on which the city’s fortunes had grown throughout the 18th century. You can see the influence of the so-called “tobacco lords” in the very names of Glasgow’s streets and areas – Buchanan Street, Glassford Street, Ingram Street, Cochrane Street, to name but a few. They were great men in their time, and acted like a society of their own – the tobacco merchants were distinguis ....

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