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Books looking back at life in Glasgow past.
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Ah B'lang Tae Glasgow
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John McBarron was born in 1928 into a family that fared no better than others in the poverty-stricken East End of Glasgow. He left school at the age of 14 and joined his father in the family grocery store (the wee shop) just down from Celtic Park. At...
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Comfy Glasgow: An Expression of Thanks
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Christians who like a personal story of encounter with God. Glasgowphiles who want an authentic bit of social history laced with personal anecdote about the best city in the world. Ex-pats who want to catch the flavour of Scotland again, or wallow in...
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Cummoangetaff!
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These adventures of Big Aggie MacDonald, the Glasgow tramcar clippie with the caustic wisecracking tongue, will take you back to the golden age of the tram. Her rich, biting patter, indiscriminately targeted at all and sundry, is the stuff for which...
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Glasgow in Old Photographs
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Few cities lend themselves so well to a pictorial history as Glasgow. Despite the ravages of economic forces, war, planners and time itself, the face of Glasgow still displays much that relates to its long and vigorous history. The city's built heritage...
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Great Glasgow Stories 1
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Few cities in the world abound with so many extraordinary stories as Glasgow and the best of these are found in this collection. The city has witnessed some of the most significant events of the times; from tremendous triumphs to cataclysmic calamities,...
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Great Glasgow Stories 2
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This work recounts some great stories, bringing to light new facts and accounts of events which occurred in Glasgow and which were to have a worldwide impact. Topics covered include youth movements, a visit from Hitler's deputy and the murder of a TV...
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Night Song of the Last Tram
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A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence...
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Once Upon a Time in Glasgow
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An accessible, affordable history of the city of Glasgow from its earliest beginnings presented in episodic format based on a series of articles first published in the Evening Times in the 1970s. The contents cover personalities such as Hawkie who was...
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She Was Aye Workin'
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The hidden lives of women who raised families and made ends meet in Scotland's early 20th-century urban tenements... She Was Aye Workin' is an eloquent tribute to the management skills, stamina and moral strength of women who held homes together against...
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Streets of Glasgow
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Alan Millar pays tribute to his home city in this wonderful collection of streetscapes showing Glasgow City transport scenes from the end of World War 2 up until the early 1970s. Glorious pictures of multicoloured trams – Glasgow used route colours right...
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Tales of the Savoy
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One of Glasgow's best-known restaurateurs, Joe Pieri ran a cafe in the Cowcaddens district which attracted the lowlife by day, was cleared for theatre-goers in the early evening and then serviced prostitutes and villains late at night. Here, he recounts...
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The Parliamo Glasgow Omnibus
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This omnibus edition includes the author's two guides to speaking Glaswegian. Based on the most up-to-date techniques of language teaching they guide the uninitiated through the tangled thickets of speaking Glaswegian. Stanley Baxter is one of Scotland's...
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Times Past: The Story Of Glasgow
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Times Past: the Story of Glasgow is a beautifully illustrated volume that includes many spectacular and previously unpublished photographs of the city, brought together here for the first time. Based on the hugely popular Evening Times supplement, Times...
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Up Oor Close...
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This best-selling book dispels the image of slums and destitution which clings to the Glasgow tenement. Working-class home life is explored through the recollections of people who grew up in these cramped one and two roomed houses. Narratives full of...
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What's For Ye, Won't Go By Ye!
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The story follows the life of two generations of the MacGregor family through the eyes of Linda, Douglas MacGregor’s daughter. Beginning in the Possilpark area of Glasgow in 1950 when Linda is two years old, the novel traces the family's struggles...
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