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These are some of the famous faces who grew up in Baillieston

“Clydeside has been blitzed. But the spirit of the people is Clyde-built.”

He was the ‘schoolboy diplomat’ sent across the ocean to a war-torn country to soothe the fears of fellow Americans who had been caught up in…

GLASGOW and New York are linked in many ways, through commerce, culture and even layout, being grid-like cities that grew up around their rivers.

AGNES Moir’s schooling ended in when she was 11 years old, notes her obituary, but her education did not.

1 Pacifist, feminist and suffragette, Springburn-born Agnes Dollan (nee Moir) went to jail for campaigning for fairer rents for Glasgow families during the First World War and helped secure the vote for British women. She was also the first female to stand for election with the city council. 2 Agnes Moir was one of the eleven children of Henry Moir, a blacksmith, and his wife, Annie Wilkinson. She left school at the age of 11, working briefly in a factory before becoming a telephone operato...

IT WAS a very long weekend for Ronald A. Read, who had had to get by on only five hours sleep. He hadnt, in fact, had a holiday for a couple of…

Hostelling is celebrating its 90th birthday HIKERS and young people exploring Scotland often ended up spending the night in a police cell in Glasgow in the 30s and 40s – but it was all entirely innocent. The city’s first youth hostel was created in the old Cathcart Police Station and Barracks on Clarkston Road in 1938. For the princely sum of ‘one and thruppence’ (one shilling and three old pennies) hostellers could sleep in a room which would once have housed far less savoury cha...