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Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past Ian R. Mitchell

Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past By Ian R. Mitchell

Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past by Ian R. Mitchell


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Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past sets out to retrieve the hidden architectural, cultural and historical riches of some of Glasgows working-class districts.

Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past Summary

Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past by Ian R. Mitchell

Join Ian R Mitchell on a series of walks through Glasgow's industrial past as he retrieves the hidden architectural, cultural and historical riches of some of Glasgow's industrial and working-class districts. Many who enjoy the fruits of Glasgow's recent gentrification may be surprised and delighted by the gems.

Ian Mitchell has uncovered beyond the usual haunts. An enthusiastic walker and knowledgeable historian, he invites us to recapture the social and political history of the working class in Glasgow. Taking in area including Pollokshaws, Springburn, Maryhill and Parkhead, Mitchell reveals the buildings that go unnoticed every day yet are worthy of so much more attention, and the stories behind them and their inhabitants.

You will be inspired to follow in Mitchell's footsteps and explore the Glasgow you thought you knew, and you will never be able to walk through Glasgow in the same way again.

Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past Reviews

We tend to associate the figure of the 'flaneur' with Paris, a city that encourages walking through all districts. But here Mitchell reclaims it forcefully and often beautifully for Glasgow, exhorting us to explore areas once thought 'off limits' as well as the tourist attractions to provide also a history of the working class. - The Sunday Herald

About Ian R. Mitchell

IAN R MITCHELL taught for over twenty years at Clydebank College but gave up teaching to devote himself to writing full time, and has now published many titles and won both the Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and the Outdoor Writers' Guild Award for Excellence. A native of Aberdeen and author of Aberdeen Beyond the Granite, Ian has lived in Glasgow since 1973, and has written widely about his adoptive city.

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GOR008290663
9781910021156
1910021156
Walking Through Glasgow's Industrial Past by Ian R. Mitchell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Luath Press Ltd
20140615
204
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