Old Pictorial Map of Glasgow in 1938 by L.G. Bullock - Glasgow Cathedral, University of Glasgow, Kelvingrove, Glasgow Green, River Clyde

Glasgow spent much of 1938 dressed for an occasion the whole British Empire had been invited to, and this pictorial map by L. G. Bullock was drawn to help visitors find their way around it. Commissioned around the Empire Exhibition held that year at Bellahouston Park and published by John Bartholomew and Son under the title Let Glasgow Flourish, the sheet marks out the roads and railways serving the exhibition grounds while decorating its borders with the coats of arms of the Empire's constituent countries, in the illustrated, miniature-building style that became Bullock's trademark.

Glasgow Cathedral, one of the few Scottish cathedrals to survive the Reformation largely intact, anchors the old city to the north-east. The University of Glasgow, founded in 1451 and relocated to its Gilmorehill site in the 1870s, sits to the west near Kelvingrove, where the art gallery and museum built for an earlier international exhibition in 1888 stands within its own park. Glasgow Green, the city's oldest public open space and once common grazing land, lies close to the Clyde as it curves through the centre, the river that built Glasgow's reputation as a shipbuilding capital and, for a time, the Second City of the Empire.

Former Glasgow residents and anyone with a connection to the 1938 exhibition will likely spot a familiar corner of the city on this sheet, making it a nostalgic gift for a Glaswegian marking a birthday or a move away from home. Scanned at high resolution from a well-preserved original, it is available unframed across our standard set of sizes.