barrowmen and carters around Glasgow
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:30 pm
With so much negative reporting surrounding 'Paddy's Market'. I was wondering whether a retropective of the lives of the carters and hauliers could be a good visual exercise?
I remember vividly the carts selling books at the bottom of Bothwell Street, and apart from the current hand cart next to M & S, cannot think of other carts and street sellers.
Yet, it does show a remarkable time (50's/60's), when glasgow had probably more character that it does now....!
I remember vividly the carts selling books at the bottom of Bothwell Street, and apart from the current hand cart next to M & S, cannot think of other carts and street sellers.
Yet, it does show a remarkable time (50's/60's), when glasgow had probably more character that it does now....!