Plate G4.no15: Hutchesons Hospital – Merchant City (Glasgow)

I’m grateful for this picture and include it for personal reasons, as much as it highlights a specific urban aspect of Glasgow’s Merchant City. This part of the city was the first to be the result of a more formalized planning. Wealth generated by tobacco trading (amongst other things) meant that the city suddenly expanded; the layout proposed was a rough grid, and at the northern end of each street a building of distinctive qualities was proposed, this being one: the Hutcheson Hospital (1802).
The founder also founded two schools in Glasgow, one for boys, and one for girls. Later they merged…and became the school I so abhorred as referred to in my biography.
The pictures dreaminess reminds me, that the building, like my schooling, is all in the past…

Hutchesons Hospital - Merchant City (Glasgow)