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| ISBN | Cover | Title | Author | Publisher | Year | Description | Ref. |
| 0902752758 | no image available | Provand's Lordship and Medieval Glasgow | Helen Avenell | Glasgow Museums | 2004 | This history of Provand`s Lordship traces its history since its erection in 1471 by Bishop Andrew Muirhead to house a chaplain. In its time this medieval house has been accommodation for the local hangman, an alehouse, and a barber`s shop. Since 1970 it has been one of the city`s museums. | 1481 |
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Heart of the Gorbals | Rudolph Kenna | Fort Publishing | 2004 | Before their virtually complete demolition, the tenements of the Gorbals district of Glasgow were famous for many things, particularly the poverty, crime… and its characters. This history includes the following: battle at the Orange Walk, gangster Jimmy Boyle's reign of terror, the gang fight that ended in murder, the man who scalped his best pal, little big men (boxers Lynch, Clark and McCormack), UVF bomb Catholic pub, the Gorbals vampire, great Jews (Wolfson, Glasser, Ralph Slater), from the slums to Hutchie E, what the Queen thought of the Gorbals, war heroes James Stokes VC and Joseph Hughes GC, the superstars who never got the chance to play for their beloved Celtic, eccentric Gorbals characters, famous Gorbalonians like Lorraine Kelly and Sir Thomas Lipton. | 1511 |
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