The Glasgow Necropolis
Victorian garden cemetery on a hilltop, crowded with ornate tombs, obelisks and sculpted monuments.
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This guide to the Glasgow Necropolis follows John Henry Alexander, the actor-manager who ran the Theatre Royal on Dunlop Street, from a basement rivalry with the theatre upstairs to the night of the nineteenth of February, eighteen forty-nine, when a packed house heard someone shout fire. It also takes in his showman's habits on stage and the verse carved on his grave. Best heard standing in front of his monument, with its sculpted stage and footlights.
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