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Author : Donald Macleod Malloch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of Glasgow Anecdote written by Donald Macleod Malloch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Burrowes
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780573383
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Glasgow Stories written by John Burrowes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few cities in the world abound with so many extraordinary stories as Glasgow. The city has been the silent witness to some of the most significant events of the past century, from major triumphs to cataclysmic calamities, and the best of these anecdotes are compiled here to form this unique collection. Amongst the notable events revisited are the launching of the Queen Mary, which captivated the city's inhabitants in 1934, the victorious 16-month work-in campaign by the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in the early 1970s, the Ibrox disaster of 1971 and the plague that gripped the Gorbals in 1900. Some of Glasgow's most successful people are also covered, including Clydeside revolutionary John Maclean, founder of the Barras Maggie McIver and the inimitable Billy Connolly, whose humour and colourful personality are synonymous with the city. From the Battle of George Square to the bravery of the Glasgow people during the Blitz, Great Glasgow Stories provides an all-encompassing view of the city throughout the eras.
Author : Donald Macleod Malloch
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Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of Glasgow Anecdote written by Donald Macleod Malloch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin MacFarlane
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780571682
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Real Gorbals Story written by Colin MacFarlane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional 'razor king', Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still wore bunnets and played pitch and toss; women still treated the steamie as their social club. The razor gangs were running amok once again, and filth, violence, crime, rats, poverty and drunkenness abounded, just like they did in No Mean City. MacFarlane witnessed the last days of the old Gorbals as a major regeneration programme, begun in 1961, was implemented, and, as a street boy, he had a unique insight into a once great community in rapid decline. In this engrossing book, MacFarlane reveals what it was really like to live in the old Gorbals.
Author : Francis Watt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of Edinburgh Anecdote written by Francis Watt and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary J. MacLeod
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1611459176
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Call the Nurse written by Mary J. MacLeod and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends. In anecdotes that are by turns funny, sad, moving, and tragic, she recalls them all, the crofters and their laird, the boatmen and tradesmen, young lovers and forbidding churchmen. Against the old-fashioned island culture and the grandeur of mountain and sea unfold indelible stories: a young woman carried through snow for airlift to the hospital; a rescue by boat; the marriage of a gentle giant and the island beauty; a ghostly encounter; the shocking discovery of a woman in chains; the flames of a heather fire at night; an unexploded bomb from World War II; and the joyful, tipsy celebration of a ceilidh. Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland.
Author : Alexander Hislop
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of Scottish Anecdote, Humorous, Social, Legendary and Historical written by Alexander Hislop and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Alison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Anecdotage of Glasgow written by Robert Alison and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Alison
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259409069
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Anecdotage of Glasgow written by Robert Alison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Anecdotage of Glasgow: Comprising Anecdotes and Anecdotal Incidents of the City of Glasgow and Glasgow Personages Nor does the present volume aim at producing a formal and detailed record of lives and achieve ments, industrial or otherwise, of the men who have made Glasgow in either ancient, mediaeval, or modern times, although a biographical record of that nature would prove highly interesting and instructive. And no doubt in connection with such an immense city and enterprising people, there is ample scope and abundance of material for a work of such a nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Strang
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glasgow and Its Clubs written by John Strang and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
