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Chimney sweep. Picture: Glasgow City Archives DO YOU remember the old chimney sweeps, or the lamplighters, going about their work as dusk fell on the city? Did you buy a bunch of blooms from the flower seller on the street corner, or rush to the rag-and-bone man when he turned up outside your tenement? Times Past is looking for your memories of Glasgow’s long-lost occupations – what jobs did your parents or grandparents or even great-grandparents do that are no longer around? Author John Keeman, who has published his city childhood memoir, In the Shadow of the Crane, recalls his first job, aged around nine, working for the coalman. ....