Table of Contents

PREFACE xi ONCE UPON A TIME xiii 1 HAWKIE - An Old Glasgow Worthy Observed 1 2 JAMIE BLUE - The Battle of Harvey's Dyke 7 3 BLIND ALICK - Glasgow's Seeing Eye 12 4 EVERY YEAR FOR EVER - Glasgow Fair 17 5 RIOT AND CIVIL DISTURBANCE 20 The Malt Tax Riot 23 Saturday Night Stone Battle 24 Riot at the 'House of Fear' 25 Lady Charlotte Campbell's Leg 27 The Treaty of Union 28 6 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 29 The Murder of Robert Park 33 Raising Hell at the Tron 34 Souvenirs of a Murderer 36 7 GLASGOW AND THE CLYDE 37 8 THE DAPHNE DISASTER 40 9 GLASGOW'S BAILIES 44 10 A BISHOP'S MIGHTY DREAM 47 11 THE BISHOP'S PALACE 49 12 WITCHCRAFT 51 13 THE RESURRECTIONISTS 53 14 SOME FAMOUS 'OLD GLASGOW' MEN 57 Kirkman Finlay 58 James McRae 59 James Monteith 60 Walter Stirling 61 George Gibson 62 Robert Dreghorn 63 David Dale 64 15 UNRELATED PEOPLE AND EVENTS 65 Licensed to Beg 66 Sermon that Built an Inn 67 Shedding Light on the Candleriggs 68 Disaster in Panama 70 Dumbarton Castle 71 The Saracen's Head Inn 72 Market Day 73 Fire! 74 Plague! 75 The Brave Mrs Bellamy 76 Glasgow's Trams 77 Glasgow's Water 78 Bonnie Prince Charlie 79 Wolfe of Quebec - and Glasgow! 80 Mary Queen of Scots 81 Oliver Cromwell 82 William Wallace 83 Keeper of Glasgow's Cattle 84 16 FOREIGN PARTS: PARTICK AND GOVAN 85 17 THE RESURRECTION OF MATHEW CLYDESDALE 89 18 LET GLASGOW FLOURISH! 94

About the Author

The late John Watson was a writer and journalist who worked on Glasgow's Evening Times newspaper.