This street runs parallel to York Road from the end of Mineral Street to Ayr Street. It is part of a group of street-names off York Road derived from Scottish geographical names, also including Fife Street, Ayr Street and Bute Street. In 1900 it extended as far as Ritchie Street. Behind Glasgow Street is the railway, and then the M2 motorway.
Glasgow is Scotland’s largest city with a population of 611,748 in 2019. It is also the third-largest city in the UK after London and Birmingham (if one counts Salford as a separate entity from Manchester). Glasgow has much in common with Belfast as an industrial city and port. Like Belfast, it was an important centre of shipbuilding. The Belfast company Harland & Wolff was a major employer in Glasgow too.
On application of Mr John Smith on behalf of the owners a new street off Ritchie Street be named Glasgow Street. Town Improvement Committee, 28th May 1889.