The Glasgow graveyard guide
by Black, Jimmy
In Glasgow, death is always fatal. Students of glasgowness agree that there's a distinctive Glasgow 'take' on mortality. The visitor making the journey through the graveyards of Glasgow will surely become aware of a special Glaswegian condition -- apart, that is, from the common condition of death. You feel it when you start to absorb the atmosphere of the city -- its elements of the sad, the arrogant, the courageous, the righteous, the hilarious and the hideous, blended in strange proportions,…
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- Full title :The Glasgow graveyard guide / Jimmy Black & Michael TRB Turnbull.
Summary
In Glasgow, death is always fatal. Students of glasgowness agree that there's a distinctive Glasgow 'take' on mortality. The visitor making the journey through the graveyards of Glasgow will surely become aware of a special Glaswegian condition -- apart, that is, from the common condition of death. You feel it when you start to absorb the atmosphere of the city -- its elements of the sad, the arrogant, the courageous, the righteous, the hilarious and the hideous, blended in strange proportions, all to be assimilated and enjoyed along with the weird and wonderful stories of the occupants of those.
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- Publication Date:2011.
- Edition:Rev. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):In Pinn
- Place of Publication:Glasgow
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (216 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781906476502, 1906476500
- oclc:ocn781613701
- LC Classification:DA890.G5
- Dewey Decimal:929/.5/094134
Table of Contents
Introduction -- The graveyards -- Glasgow Cathedral -- Crypt and Blacader Aisle -- Old Churchyard -- New Churchyard -- Glasgow Necropolis -- St David's (Ramshorn Kirk) -- Old and New Burying Grounds -- Crypt -- Sighthill -- Southern Necropolis -- Calton -- Jocelyn Square -- Gorbals -- St Kentigern's -- Western Necropolis -- St Peter's Cemetery (Dalbeth) -- Cathcart (East Renfrewshire) -- Bibliography -- Access, contacts and administration -- Useful addresses -- Index -- The late Jimmy Black.
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