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3 unusual facts about Candleriggs


Candleriggs

It was then taken over by Vera Weisfeld (of What Every Woman Wants fame) and reopened in 1994 as "Weisfeld's" - a budget clothing store.

Glasgow Art Club

Following initial discussions at a tea room above a baker’s shop in Candleriggs, Glasgow, on the proposal to form a club, the first formal meetings of the club were held at the Waverley Temperance Hotel, on Buchanan Street, Glasgow, with Dennistoun elected the club’s first president.

Goldbergs

After starting business on the South Side of Glasgow he moved to premises in Candleriggs in the 1920s.


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Glasgow City Halls

Glasgow's City Halls and Old Fruitmarket is a concert hall and former market located on Candleriggs, in the Merchant City, Glasgow, Scotland.

Trongate

The London based retailer Selfridges acquired the former Goldbergs site on the corner of Trongate and Candleriggs on which to build a new department store which promised to revamp the area significantly, although progress on this stalled indefinitely after the sale of Selfridges to Canada's Galen Weston in 2003, who intended to revamp Selfridge's flagship Oxford Street store rather than open in Glasgow and other cities such as Newcastle Upon Tyne, Leeds and Bristol.


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