A wee bit History....

A lunch time stroll through Glesga enjoying the sun and stumbled across this building, now used by a storage firm, which has quite a bit of Glasgow history attached to it...

The Tobacco Trade:

Much of Scotland's new-found wealth rested upon the Atlantic trade, particularly in tobacco. Glasgow's famous Tobacco Lords were some of the great innovators of capitalism and accumulated vast sums of money. They sent agents out to the Chesapeake in Virginia or Carolina to trade with the small plantation owners, to give them credit, and to sell them tools from the Scottish iron and linen industry on credit against their future crop. As the plantations expanded, so did Glasgow's grip on the trade.

The Tobacco Lords were behind new innovations and systems of crop harvesting. They stored tons of tobacco in warehouses, run by Glasgow agents, so that there was always plenty when a ship arrived for a quick turnaround. These developments and Glasgow's easier access to transatlantic shipping routes gave the Tobacco Lords important commercial advantages over their southern rivals in Bristol and London

The Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire Glasgow

28 March 1960 is Britain's worst peacetime fire services disaster. Witnesses reported seeing bright blue flames leaping 40 feet into the sky, with the glow visible across the entire city. Neighbouring buildings, including a tobacco warehouse, an ice cream factory and the Harland and Wolff engine works, were engulfed