So, a dispute between two rival developers some 150 years ago was directly responsible for the creation of one of Glasgow's most impressive pieces of Victorian structural engineering designed by one of its greatest architects.

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He first built his own bridge over the river and then commissioned Alexander 'Greek' Thomson to design the structure we now know as the Sixty Steps.

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How to get people across the River Kelvin and up the steep slope on the opposite bank to the land he wanted to develop at the top of the hill? His solution was ingenuous, if rather expensive.

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