The major theme in any outline of Glasgow's progress through the nineteenth century is expansion.2 From the early supremacy of textiles and associated chemical manufactures, through metallurgy, engineering and shipbuilding, industrial expansion revolutionised the traditional layout of Glasgow which had been centred for centuries on Glasgow Cross. Population inflow, in particular from the Highlands and Ireland, was spectacular as the city grew from 77,000 inhabitants in 1801 to 202,000 in 1831 and 359,000 by 1851.3 From 1811 it was second in population in the United Kingdom only to London and remained so well into the twentieth century. By 1881 the population had grown to 511,000 and by the turn of the century it reached 761,000, ten times its size at the beginning of the century and almost twice the size of contemporary Edinburgh and Leith.4 The industrial labour force rose between 1800 and 1900 from 67,000, including children, to 330,000 adults.5 Overcrowding was a dire consequence. The inner city locations of industrial workplaces drew workers, poor, unskilled and in temporary parttime employment, into the cheap and decaying boarding houses of the wynds, filthy lanes of four-storey tenements 'unfit even for sties'.6 These inner city slums, created by landlords, became the breeding ground for cholera and typhus until the 1860s when the City Improvement Trust was founded to upgrade working class housing.7 By 1820 evidence of inundation by the textile industry ofGlasgow west of the Cross suggests that middle class attempts to escape here from the disease ridden central city area had already been abandoned.8 Those who could had left for literally greener pastures just to the west, on the wooded and grassy slopes of the nearest ofGlasgow's drumlins, steep conical hills of impacted boulder clay up to 200 feet high.9 Here on the traditional lands of the Campbells ofBlythswood, baronets and the first large scale landowner/ developers in suburban Glasgow, the haute bourgeoisie established elegant homes. They occupied terrace houses built by developers on feued or leasehold land laid out before 1800 on a grid pattern which ignored the hilly contours which made building very expensive but guaranteed the elitist requirements ofexclusiveness and fine views.10 The Campbell rent revenue