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Change: banks. The structure maintains the river as freshwater up steam and brackish down steam from the weir. There is a footpath over the weir but this is to allow access for maintenance only and there is no public access. The weir also carries two water mains over the Clyde.
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Change: achievementachievement. beforeIt beingwas moved to theGlasgow greenGreen in 1890. It is the largest teracotta fountain in the world, and after years of neglect and vandalism its historical importance was recognised and it was again dismantled, restored and then relocated to its new
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Change: In 1901 Glasgow Corporation built a tidal weir at the park straddling the River Clyde to provide a means to maintain the level of the
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Change: that had accumulated over the previous two hundred years. The William Collins fountain was erected in the park in 1881 to honour Sir William Collins, a figure in the temperance movement who served as Glasgow's Lord Provost between 1877 and 1880.
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Change: Following the economic depression after the Napoleonic Wars, 324 jobless workers were employed to remodel Glasgow Green by the Town Council of Glasgow into the park as it is seen today. The Doulton Fountain was originally exhibited at the Kelvingrove International Exhibition in 1888 as
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Change: Court in the Saltmarket. In 1806 the first civic monument in Britain to commemorate Nelson's victories was erected by public subscription in Glasgow Green. In 2002 restoration programme restored the monument to its original condition and repaired damage that had accumulated over the previous two hundred years.
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Change: in the world, and after years of neglect and vandalism its historical importance was recognised and it was again dismantled, restored and then relocated to its new site within Glasgow Green in front of the People's Palace in 2005.Templeton’s Carpet Factory was designed by William Leiper and construction
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Change: was moved again in 1922 to the west edge of the Green facing Charlotte Street and again in 1991to1991 to its present position facing the Old High Court in the Saltmarket.
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Change: western Streetend of Monteith Row in 1892 at Glasgowthe expense of James McLennanin. The arch was moved again in 1922 to the west edge of the Green asfacing Charlotte Street and again in 1991to its present position facing the McLennanOld Arch.High Court in the Saltmarket.
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Change: and originally arranged with reading rooms on the ground floor, a museum on the first floor and providesan art gallery on the second floor. In the 1940s the building was converted to a museum dedicated to the an exhibition venue for the social
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Change: wash,bleachwash, bleach linen, graze livestock, dry fishing nets and to swim. The park was crossed by the Molindinar and Camlachie Burns and was originally a swampy flood plain but culverting of these dried out the land. The Doulton Fountain was originally exhibited at the Kelvingrove International Exhibition
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Change: greenGreen dates from1450 whenBishop Turnbull gifted the common lands of Glasgow Green to the people of Glasgow. The park was used originall as a place
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Change: piano nobile of Robert and James Adam's 1890General Assembly Rooms, Ingram Street,Post asOffice aacquisition triumphalbut arch.the Thecentral buildingarch was demolished -rescued and thesubsequently archwasre-erected subsequentlyin resitedGreendyke twiceStreet -at theGlasgow mostGreen recentas being
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Change: The McLennan Arch was originally part of the Assembly Rooms in Ingram Street designed by Robert and James Adam. The arch is a remodelling of
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