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Napier Drive to The Graving Docks

from Clydeside Promenade Walking Tour by Walking Heads

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A long walk up Govan Road takes us past the Graving Docks towards the Creative Clyde.

As we pass old tenement buildings we find evidence of the changing conditions in social housing in Glasgow.

During the First World War, as local men went off to fight, an influx of Irish and Highland workers increased Govan's population from nine thousand to around seventy thousand. Conditions suffered accordingly.

Trish Caird of the Hidden Histories Project describes how one woman's actions would bring improvements for working people in a campaign that spread from Glasgow across Europe.

Listen for the little-known story of how John Lennon and Yoko Lennon supported the later UCS workin with both cash and a floral tribute: the red roses.

Photo: Skin - ubx, Creative Commons, (CC BY 2.0)

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from Clydeside Promenade Walking Tour, released July 23, 2014

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Walking Heads takes you to exciting places and guides you off the beaten track. We aim to bring hidden and overlooked places and people to life through interactive audio tours made and presented by people who love to explore and know the inside stories of cities and streets. ... more

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