MEMORIES Hugh Reed who has been researching lots of Glasgow’s characters and making videos about them. He is pictured in Cathcart cemetery next to the grave of Margaret Jefferson, mother of Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy fame... Photograph by Colin HOW does a talented music hall star, famous the world over for the classic song Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside, end up buried in a Glasgow cemetery? This is the question which sent musician and actor Hugh Reed on a lockdown quest to find out more about the city’s past. “I spotted Mark Sheridan’s grave in Cathcart cemetery, and did a bit of research – and it’s a tragic tale,” says Hugh, former lead singer with Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants, who now works as a college lecturer in Beijing.