Argyle Street
Busy shopping street crossed by a glass-walled railway bridge nicknamed the Highlandman's Umbrella.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Argyle Street in Glasgow looks up at the glass-walled bridge that carries Central Station over the pavement, and at how it was stretched again and again between eighteen seventy-nine and the early nineteen hundreds. It also follows the Gaelic-speaking Highlanders who made the dry ground beneath it their weekend meeting place. Best heard standing under the bridge, where you can see its Venetian-style windows.
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