Glasgow: Fabric of a CityR. Hale, 2001 - 288 pàgines In this portrait of a city, Glaswegian writer and poet, Maurice Lindsay, draws together the many threads of Glasgow's rich inheritance to create an evocative picture of a city that was once the 'Second City of the Empire'. |
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Pàgina 55
... Perhaps the most notorious in this respect were the massive Gorbals blocks by the dis- tinguished architects Sir Basil Spence and Sir Robert Matthew , pre- sumably responding to official briefing . Their buildings have since been ...
... Perhaps the most notorious in this respect were the massive Gorbals blocks by the dis- tinguished architects Sir Basil Spence and Sir Robert Matthew , pre- sumably responding to official briefing . Their buildings have since been ...
Pàgina 183
... perhaps futility . We are never allowed to forget that , in his own words , ' violence is , alas , endemic below the surface of both men and manners ' . Also with strong Glasgow connections were R. Henderson Blyth ( 1919-70 ) , a ...
... perhaps futility . We are never allowed to forget that , in his own words , ' violence is , alas , endemic below the surface of both men and manners ' . Also with strong Glasgow connections were R. Henderson Blyth ( 1919-70 ) , a ...
Pàgina 247
... perhaps odd that Hall , being a churchman , should land at Glasgow on a Sunday , but at least he could gratify his professional propensities , because : on one side of the street , almost in every house , I heard psalms singing and ...
... perhaps odd that Hall , being a churchman , should land at Glasgow on a Sunday , but at least he could gratify his professional propensities , because : on one side of the street , almost in every house , I heard psalms singing and ...
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