George Square
Civic square ringed by statues and the Cenotaph, scene of a notorious strike riot in nineteen nineteen.
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About this audio guide
This guide to George Square in Glasgow turns on Friday the thirty-first of January, nineteen nineteen, when thousands of striking workers filled the square demanding a forty-hour week and their leaders went into the City Chambers to wait for an answer. It follows strike leader David Kirkwood, the bronze Gladstone he climbed, and the Sheriff who stepped out to read the Riot Act. Start at the Gladstone statue on the north side of the square.
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