Great tour under a blue sky with Catherine and Marissa braving the bitter wind .

• The woman who first set up a barrow at the Barras bought the land to enlarge the market – now a millionairess.
• Fountain at the People's Palace – Royal Doulton
• Marble staircase at the City Chambers – the only one like it  anywhere else in the world is in the Vatican City (where filming forbidden, so Glasgow sometimes is a stand in)
• Andrew Carnegie had twice the wealth of Bill Gates, in today's terms
• The whole SECC area used to be docks.  At the peak of the shipbuilding era, there was a new ship floated every single day.  One dockyard could employ 50 000 people.  The Cutty Sark (slang for a short dress, used in Burns' Tam o' Shanter), Queen Elizabeth & Queen Mary, the Lusitania and the QE2 all built on the Clyde.
• James Watt supposedly thought of the steam engine condenser while walking in Glasgow Green. Made it 5x as efficient and basically started the industrial revolution.  
• Ships weren't really the Glasgow specialty – it was boilers and gearboxes!  Huge output of train locomotives, almost all for export eg Canada, Australia, India.  Made in places like Springburn, loaded on to ships at Finnieston (hence the crane)
• New BBC studios are totally digital
• Whistler's Mother isn't in Glasgow!
• Dali's Jesus on the Cross was originally so controversial that noone would buy it – Glasgow paid just over £8000.
• Glasgow University is the 4th oldest in the UK – after Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews.