Thursday, October 22, 2009

Highland Umbrella

This picture is, if course, the Glasgow Central Station railway bridge across Argyll Street, affectionately called the Highland Umbrella.

In the 50s and 60s, when large numbers of Highlanders and Islanders moved to Glasgow, usually for work, they would gather beneath this bridge on Sunday afternoons off to meet. The bridge provided shelter from the elements, hence the nickname!

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