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No Mean Glasgow
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Author : Colin MacFarlane
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-03-11
No Mean Glasgow written by Colin MacFarlane and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes. By the time MacFarlane's tenement was knocked down in the early 1970s, he had left school and been rehoused in another part of the city. In an attempt to extricate himself from his Gorbals gang days, he took a job as an apprentice chef at one of Glasgow's top restaurants, where he soon discovered that his colleagues were just as insane as those he had mixed with on the city streets. Meanwhile, MacFarlane struggled to integrate into the more affluent area that his family had been moved to and soon found himself returning to his old haunts and back in trouble again. In No Mean Glasgow, MacFarlane charts his eventful, fun-packed passage from Gorbals street boy to grown man on the brink of a new beginning. He describes his adventures with a mixture of humour, sadness and delight. It is a book for those people living all over the world who remember the old Glasgow - a city teeming with warmth, passion, patter and characters who could brighten up even the darkest of days.
No Mean City
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Author : Alexander McArthur (of Glasgow.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
No Mean City written by Alexander McArthur (of Glasgow.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with American fiction categories.
The story of life in the Gorbals, a run-down slum district of Glasgow (now mostly demolished, but re-built in a contemporary style) with the hard men and the razor gangs.
The Real Gorbals Story
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Author : Colin MacFarlane
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-07-22
The Real Gorbals Story written by Colin MacFarlane and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-22 with Science categories.
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.
No Mean City
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Author : Alexander McArthur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
No Mean City written by Alexander McArthur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with categories.
Great Glasgow Stories
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Author : John Burrowes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-14
Great Glasgow Stories written by John Burrowes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-14 with History categories.
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.
City Of Gangs Glasgow And The Rise Of The British Gangster
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Author : Andrew Davies
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-08-15
City Of Gangs Glasgow And The Rise Of The British Gangster written by Andrew Davies and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with True Crime categories.
**Includes fascinating stories about Billy Fullerton, leader of the Billy Boys, featured in the latest series of BBC's Peaky Blinders** 'A new type of criminal is in our midst - a dangerous, ruthless, well-armed man, who will stick at nothing, not even murder. He is introducing into this country the gangster methods of Chicago and New York... Trade depression has thrown into unemployment thousands of unskilled youths who have nothing to do but lounge about the street corners of our slums in gangs.' John Bull weekly newspaper, 1932. During the 1920s and 1930s, Glasgow gained an unenviable and enduring notoriety as Britain's gang city - the 'Scottish Chicago'. Now Andrew Davies, author of the acclaimed The Gangs of Manchester, brings to life the reign of terror exerted on Glasgow by gangs like the Billy Boys, the Kent Star, the Savoy Arcadians and the South Side Stickers. Out of the most dilapidated and overcrowded tenements in Britain, stepped young men and women dressed like Hollywood gangsters and their molls. On the city's streets, they took centre stage in dramas of their own making, fighting territorial battles laced with religious sectarianism and running protection rackets modelled on those of the American underworld. Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Andrew Davies provides compelling portraits of legendary figures such as 'Razor King' John Ross and Billy Fullerton, leader of the Billy Boys - described as the 'Al Capone' of the city's East End. He sheds new light on the way the city's police and judiciary dealt with the gangs and reveals the fascinating role played by the media in creating myths of the underworld. During what the Daily Express described as 'The War on the Gang', Glasgow's police were led by Chief Constable Percy Sillitoe (who later became head of M15), determined to maintain the image as a tough, gang-busting cop he had forged in Sheffield during the 1920s. This dramatic story, played out against the backdrop of the most volatile of Britain's cities, provides a new window onto the most turbulent period in modern British history and a timely reminder of how deprivation, unemployment and religious bigotry are a toxic cocktail in any era.
No Mean City
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Author : Alexander McArthur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
No Mean City written by Alexander McArthur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with English fiction categories.
Girl In Pieces
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Author : Kathleen Glasgow
language : en
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date : 2016-08-30
Girl In Pieces written by Kathleen Glasgow and has been published by Delacorte Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-30 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book."—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It’s a story you won’t be able to look away from. And don’t miss Kathleen Glasgow's novels You’d Be Home Now and How to Make Friends with the Dark, both raw and powerful stories of life.
Transforming Glasgow
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Author : Kintrea, Keith
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2019-12-18
Transforming Glasgow written by Kintrea, Keith and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-18 with Social Science categories.
Thirty years after Glasgow turned towards regeneration, indicators of its built environment, its health, economic performance and its quality of life remain below UK averages. This interdisciplinary study examines the ongoing transformation of Glasgow as it has transitioned from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city during the 21st Century. Looking at diverse issues of urban policy, regeneration, and economic and social change, it considers the evolving lived experiences of Glaswegians. Contributors explore the necessary actions required to secure the gains of regeneration and create an economically competitive, socially just and sustainable city, establishing a theory that moves beyond post-industrialism that serves as a model for similar cities globally.
Glasgow S Hard Men
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Author : Robert Jeffrey
language : en
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Release Date : 2006-08-16
Glasgow S Hard Men written by Robert Jeffrey and has been published by Black & White Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-16 with True Crime categories.
For more than 100 years the poverty of Glasgow's slums fuelled the violence of the gangs. But the criminals were not Glasgow's only hard men. The crimefighters - from cops to chief constables and high court judges - were also tough. This volume is the story of both sides, the good and the bad, and the battle between the two.