Barras Market
Century-old weekend street market of bric-a-brac stalls, crowned by a famous neon-lit ballroom.
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This guide to the Barras Market in Glasgow's East End follows Maggie McIver, the Barras Queen, from a yard of hired barrows in Marshall Lane to the market she and her husband James built on this land. It turns on Christmas, a yearly party for the hawkers and their families, and a year when the usual hall was not available. Along the way you'll hear about the market's midnight Christmas Eves and the traders' patter set into the kerbs. Best heard on the Gallowgate, within sight of the neon sign.
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