Glasgow (52 page)

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Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History
(Granta Books, London, 2004)

Roy, Kenneth, ed.,
The Best of Scotland on Sunday
(Carrick Publishing, Ayr, 1990)

Royle, Trevor, ed.,
Isn't All This Bloody: Scottish Writings from the First World War
(Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2014)

Royle, Trevor, ed.,
Jock Tamson's Bairns: Essays on a Scottish Childhood
(Hamish Hamilton, London, 1977)

Savage, Hugh,
Born Up a Close: Memoirs of a Brigton Boy
(Argyll Publishing, Glendaruel, Argyll, 2006)

Smout, T.C.,
A History of the Scottish People, 1560 1830
(Collins, London, 1989)

Smout, T.C.,
A History of the Scottish People, 1830 1950
(Collins, London, 1989)

Southey, Robert,
Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1819
(J. Murray, London, 1929)

Spence, Alan,
Its Colours They Are Fine
(William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, Glasgow, 1977)

Spottiswoode, John,
The History of the Church of Scotland
(Scolar Press, Menston, Yorkshire, 1972)

Spring, Ian,
Phantom Village: The Myth of the New Glasgow
(Polygon, Edinburgh, 1990)

Strang, Dr John,
Glasgow and its Clubs
(London, 1856)

Theroux, Paul,
The Kingdom By the Sea: A Journey Round the Coast of Great Britain
(Penguin Books, London, 1984)

Tweed, John,
Tweed's Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde
(Molendinar Press, Glasgow, 1979)

Waugh, Evelyn,
Sword of Honour
(Penguin Books, London, 1999)

Weir, Molly,
Best Foot Forward
(Hutchinson & Co, London, 1972)

Weir, Molly,
Shoes Were For Sundays
(Hutchinson & Co, London, 1970)

White, Kenneth,
Travels in the Drifting Dawn
(Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1989)

Who Belongs to Glasgow? 200 Years of Migration (Glasgow City Libraries, Glasgow, 1993)

Whyte, Hamish, ed.
Noise and Smoky Breath
(Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1983)

Williamson, Elizabeth; Riches, Anne and Higgs, Malcolm,
Glasgow: The Buildings of Scotland
(Penguin Books in association with the National Trust of Scotland, London, 1990)

Wordsworth, Dorothy,
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
(David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1894)

Wormald, Jenny, ed.,
Scotland: A History
(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005)

Worsdall, Frank,
The Tenement
(W & R Chambers, Edinburgh, 1979)

Worsthorne, Peregrine,
Tricks of Memory
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1993)

SOURCES AND PERMISSIONS

Every effort has been made to trace the rights-holders of material which appears in this book. The editor and publisher will be happy to rectify any omissions and print appropriate acknowledgements in future editions
.

Prologue

‘Glasgow Got Its Name', from
Collins Encyclopeadia of Scotland
by John and Julia Keay (HarperCollins, London, 1994)

1597–1700 An Archbishop's Seat

‘Witchcraft', from
History of the Church and State of Scotland
by John Spottiswoode (London, 1655)

‘A Closet Lined with Iron', from
Travels in Holland, The United provinces, England, Scotland, and Ireland
by Sir William Brereton (The Chteham Society, 1844)

‘O Glasgow!' from
Skene's Succinct Survey of the Famous City of Aberdeen
by (John Forbes, Aberdeen, 1685)

1701–1750 Pretending To Be Gentlemen

‘A Fishy Tale', from
A Short Account of Scotland
by Thomas Morer (Newborough London, 1702)

‘Cleanest and Beautifullest City in Britain . . .', from
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
by Daniel Defoe (London 1724–27)

‘Nothing But Good Looks and Fine Clothes', from
The Autobiography of Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk 1722–1805
(TN Foulis, London and Edinburgh, 1910)

1751–1800 What To Do with Dung

‘The Saracen's Head', by Robert Tennant, from
The Glasgow Courant
, 1755

‘Best of the Second Rate', from
A Tour in Scotland 1769
by Thomas Pennant (John Monk, Chester, 1771)

‘A Mediocrity of Knowledge', from
Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
, by Samuel Johnson (W. Statham and T. Cadell, London, 1775)

‘Have You Ever Seen Brentford?', from
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LLD
by James Boswell (Charles Dilly, London, 1785)

‘Dung Moving', from
The Glasgow Mercury

1801–1850 Haunts of Vagrancy

‘Glasgow Green', from
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D.1803
by Dorothy Worsdworth (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1894)

‘Indescribably Underbred', from
Memoirs of a Highland Lady
by Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus (Canongate, Edinburgh, 1992)

‘The National Jealousy of the English', from
Rob Roy
by Sir Walter Scott (Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1817)

‘Glasgow Invades Edinburgh', from
Memorials of His Time
by Henry Cockburn (T.N. Foulis, Edinburgh & London, 1856)

‘The Ritual of Punch-making', from
The Life of Sir Walter Scott
by J.G. Lockhart (Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, 1837–39)

‘An Invincible Nose', from
Journal of a Tour in Scotland in 1891
by Robert Southey (J. Murray, London, 1929)

‘The Rogueries of the Broomielaw', from
Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk
by J.G. Lockhart (William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1819)

‘Molly's History', quoted in
The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women
by Elspeth King (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1993)

‘Bread, Beef and Beer', from
Rural Rides
by William Cobbett (A&C Black, Edinburgh, 1856)

‘Willie Winkie', from
Scottish Nursery Songs and Poems
by William Miller (Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow, 1863)

‘Cock-fighting', from
The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Volume VI, Lanark
(Wm. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1835)

‘A Reckoning', from
The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Volume VI, Lanark
(Wm. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1835)

‘Less wet than Edinburgh', from
Description of the City of Glasgow: Comprising an Account of Its Ancient and Modern History, Its Trade, Manufactures, Commerce, Health and Other Concerns
by James Cleland (John Smith and Son, Glasgow, 1840)

‘Glasgow Observatory,' (Thomas de Quincey) quoted in
The Opium-eater: A Life of Thomas de Quincey
by Grevel Lindop (OUP, Oxford, 1985)

‘
Wretched, Dissolute, Loathsome and Pestilential', by Captain Miller, from Reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Scotland, … Presented to both houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842

1851–1900 City of Merchants

‘The Trial of Madeleine Smith', from
The Illustrated London News
, 30 June 1857

‘A Suburb of the Dead', from
Biographic and Descriptive Sketches of Glasgow Necropolis
by George Blair (M. Ogle, Glasgow, 1857)

‘Not Waving But Drowning', from
Glasgow Sentinel
, 3 March 1860

‘The First Football Match' (Robert Gardner) quoted in
Scottish Football: A Pictorial History
by Kevin McCarra (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1984)

‘A Noble Park' (John Tweed) from
Tweed's Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde
(Molendinar Press, Glasgow, 1973)

‘Maryhill Barracks', from
Groome's Gazetteer
, 1876

‘School for Cookery', from
The Baillie
, 22 March 1876

‘Doon the Watter,' from
I Remember
by J.J. Bell (The Porpoise Press, Edinburgh, 1832)

‘Kennedy Jones', from
The Brave Days: A Chronicle of the North
by Neil Munro (Porpoise Books, Edinburgh, 1931)

‘Brief Lives', from (J.B. Russell) from
Public Health Administration in Glasgow: A Memorial Volume of the Writings of James Burn Russell
(J. MacLehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1905)

‘A Vexed Question in Sanitation', from
The Builder
, 4 August 1888

‘Unlucky with Ships', from Lying Awake by Catherine Carswell (Secker & Warburg, London, 1950)

‘Glasgow' from
Poetic Gems Selected from the Works of William McGonagall, Poet and Tragedian with Biographical Sketch by the Author and Portrait
by William McGonagall (Winter, Duncan and Co., Dundee, 1890)

‘A Minor Episode', from
Memory Hold-the-Door
by John Buchan (Hodder & Stoughton, London 1940)

‘Steel Drops', from
I Remember by
J.J. Bell (The Porpoise Press, Edinburgh, 1932)

‘Glasgow Boys' (Francis ‘Fra' Newbery), from
The Glasgow School of Painting
by David Martin (George Bell & Son, London, 1897)

1901–1925 Fighting Women

‘The City Man', from
Glasgow in 1901
by James Hamilton Muir (W. Hodge, Glasgow, 1901)

‘George Square', from
Glasgow in 1901
by James Hamilton Muir (W. Hodge, Glasgow, 1901)

‘The Bone Factory', from
An Autobiography
by Edwin Muir (Hogarth Press, London 1954)

‘Kate Cranstonish', from
The Brave Days: A Chronicle of the North
by Neil Munro (Porpoise Press, London, 1931)

‘Baird Remembers Reith', from
Television and Me
, by John Logie Baird, edited by Malcolm Baird. Copyright © Malcolm Baird. Reprinted by permission of Birlinn Ltd.

‘At the Pickshers', from
The Name's Phelan
by Jim Phelan (Blackstaff Press, Dublin, 1948)

‘A Room and Kitchen in Springburn', (Marian Smith) quoted in
Up Oor Close: Memories of Domestic Life in Glasgow Tenements, 1910–1945
by Jean Faley (White Cockade, in association with Springburn Museum Trust, Wendlebury, Oxon, 1990)

‘Suffragettes at War', by Helen Crawfurd, from an unpublished memoir made available through the Marx Memorial Library and Workers' School

‘Bearded Like a Man', from
Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy
by Patrick MacGill. Copyright © the Estate of Patrick MacGill. Reprinted by permission of Knight Features on behalf of the Estate of Patrick MacGill

‘Rent Strike', from
In the Rapids of Revolution: Essays, Articles and Letters by John Maclean
, ed. Nan Milton (Allison and Busby, London, 1978)

‘Doctoring in the Gorbals', from
Gorbals Doctor
by George Gladstone Robertson (Jarrolds, London, 1970)

‘Close Encounters', from
Dance of the Apprentices
by Edward Gaitens. Copyright © the Estate of Edward Gaitens, 1948. Reprinted by permission of Canongate Books Ltd

1926–1950 Canoodling

‘Built by the Picts', from
Dancing in the Streets
by Clifford Hanley (Hutchinson, London, 1958)

‘Springburn Sinners', from
Shoes Were for Sundays
by Molly Weir (Penguin Books, 2012). Copyright © Molly Weir, 1970. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd

‘A Crate of Apples', from
Thank You for Having Me
by Maurice Lindsay. Copyright © The Literary Executor of Maurice Lindsay. Reprinted by permission of the family of Maurice Lindsay

‘A Razor Attack on Mosley', from
Harold Nicolson's Diaries and Letters
by Harold Nicolson (William Collins, Glasgow, 1966–68)

‘Not Even a Scottish Slum' (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) from
Scottish Scene
by Hugh MacDiarmid and James Leslie Mitchell (Jarrolds, London, 1934)

‘Naming the Yards', from
The Shipbuilders
by George Blake. Copyright and permission for use courtesy of Black & White Publishing Ltd

‘A Tree in Argyle Street', from
Glasgow's Treasure Chest: A Miscellany of History, personalities and Places
by James Cowan (Craig Wilson Ltd, Glasgow, 1951)

‘An Anti-Social Neighbour', (Agnes Muirhead) quoted in
The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women
by Elspeth King (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1993)

‘A Cocktail Bar at Ibrox', from
Born up a Close: Memoirs of a Brigton Boy
by Hugh Savage. Copyright © Capercaillie Books. Reprinted by permission of the publishers, Capercaillie Books

‘More a Dummy Than a Mummy', from
A Postilion Struck By Lightning
by Dirk Bogarde. Copyright © by the Estate of Dirk Bogarde. Reprinted by permission of United Agents on behalf of the Estate of Dirk Bogarde

‘Coupling', from
Growing up in the Gorbals
by Ralph Glasser. Copyright and permission for use courtesy of Black & White Publishing Ltd

‘You Say “Polis”; I Say “Police”', from Report on Glasgow Speech: common errors in language usage in elementary schools by the Educational Institute of Scotland (Educational Institute of Scotland, Glasgow Local Association, 1934)

‘The Art of Tapping Lifts', from
Always a Little Further
by Alastair Borthwick. Copyright © the Estate of Alastair Borthwick. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Alastair Borthwick

‘Swastikas in Sauchiehall Street', from
The Jewish Echo
, November 1939

‘A Mongrel among the Dustbins', from
Sword of Honour
by Evelyn Waugh. (Penguin Books, 2002). Copyright © Evelyn Waugh, 1965. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd

‘Mob Rule', from
The Scots Italians
by Joe Pieri. Copyright © the Estate of Joe Pieri. Reprinted by permission of Birlinn Ltd

‘The Clydebank Blitz', from
The Glasgow Herald
, 13 March 1941

‘An Old-style Amputation', from
Wisdom, Madness & Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist, 1927–57
by R.D. Laing (Macmillan, London, 1985)

‘Riveting Stuff', from
Build the Ships
by V.S. Pritchett. Copyright © the Estate of V.S. Pritchett Reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop (
www.petersfraserdunlop.com
) on behalf of the Estate of V.S. Pritchett