Barrowland Ballroom
Legendary sprung-floor dancehall turned gig venue above a market, crowned by a flashing neon sign.
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This guide to the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow follows Maggie McIver, the market trader known as the Barras Queen, and the dancehall she opened above the Barras market for her own street sellers. It moves from wartime queues and a nineteen fifty-eight fire to the day in nineteen eighty-three when Simple Minds arrived with a film crew. Stand on the Gallowgate pavement where you can see the foyer roof and the neon sign.
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