The first time Elspeth Ross knew she was going away was when she returned home from her work sewing shirts in Glasgow city centre to find a case in the hall.
PHOTOGRAPHS of Glasgow children in tenement back courts and on city streets feature often in Times Past. The old black and white images conjure up many memories for readers, who recall by turns happy times and decaying buildings, post-war decay and hope for the future. It is rare to find the city’s streetscapes and tenement children captured in paintings, but for Joan Eardley, they were a rich source of inspiration. Joan Eardley The artist, who rented a studio on Cochrane Street in 1949, would have been 100 years old on Tuesday had she survived breast cancer.. Sadly, Joan died in 1963, aged just 42, and with her death Scotland lost one of its most popular and important artists.
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Doug Edmunds: An appreciation DOUG Edmunds, who has died aged 76, was a larger-than-life character who crammed a wide range of experiences into his lifetime, from being a 20-year-old student boxer doing exhibition bouts in the Bahamas to playing rugby for Zambia against an international touring team. He was twice the World Caber Tossing champion and, later, managing director of a business with a multi-million pound turnover. He was presented to the Queen for his heavyweight exploits at Braemar Games and was a guest at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s birthday party at Planet Hollywood in Piccadilly Circus, London. The mundane was alien to Doug. An individual with a formidable presence, as befitted a champion heavyweight athlete, his straight-talking direct manner belied an extremely likeable personality with a good sense of humour and compassionate nature, who left his mark wherever he went.