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Once Upon A Time In Glasgow
The City from the earliest Times
By John WatsonThe wooden cart containing the body of Fergus, the holy man, finally stopped on a sunlit knoll above a dark, wooded ravine through which a gentle, shimmering stream meandered.
Kentigern smiled and touched the still, pale hands of Fergus. Here Fergus would be buried, and here Kentigern would build his church – a church dedicated to the glory of God and to be known by the name given to Kentigern by all who knew him: Mungo – dear friend.
Born in Culross, Fife, Mungo had been raised to priesthood in a monastery whose inhabitants had stood in awe of the saintly boy who could pray life into a dead robin and flame into a frozen bush. Others were to witness Mungo’s ability to perform wonders, as when he found the lost ring of Queen Langueth clasped in the mouth of a silver salmon from which deeds Glasgow would create her armorial crest. And so Saint Mungo built his church on the hill and began his appointed task of bringing the word of God to the unknowing and the unbelieving. In time, his fame was to spread far beyond the tiny church and the cluster of houses, where amid a handful of miracles and a heartful of prayer, Glasgow was born …
This is Glasgow's history as it originally appeared in the Evening Times, in a series of articles written by John Watson.
Once Upon a Time in Glasgow brings to life those great personalities of bygone times such as Hawkie – the city's most famous street hawker, without whom no public hanging would have been complete; Jamie Blue, who took the law into his own hands to defend the rights of Glasgow's citizens and Blind Alick, who saw everything!
John Watson also describes the places and events, disasters and fairs, body snatchers and religion, trams and pubs, royalty and ships, markets and murders that have made this city what it is today.
This is the companion for anyone interested in the city and her people.
Key Features
An essential history of Glasgow's past.
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About John Watson
The late John Watson was a writer and formerly worked as a journalist on Glasgow's Evening Times.All Titles by John Watson
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