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Front cover: Stephen Adam's stained glass panel of 'The Boatbuilder', at present on display at Maryhill Burgh Halls. The representation of a swan on the side of the boat commemorates the Swan family who were for many years boatbuilders on the Forth & Clyde Canal at Maryhill.
Photograph courtesy of Glasgow Life and Maryhill Burgh Trust.
Contents
The Shawfield Mansion of Glasgow
Stuart Nisbet
James Burns & Son of St Andrews: an eighteenth century business bankruptcy
Harry D Watson
Hospital at Corrour Old Lodge?: facts, possibilities and myths
Hugh Dinwoodie
Glasgow's Riverside Museum: a Review
Don Martin
The Trades of Maryhill: Stephen Adam's stained glass panels at Maryhill Burgh Hall
William B Black
The Landing of King George IV and the Masters of Trinity House, Leith
Eric J Graham
Poor Law and its Impact on Wemyss Parish
Mark Russell
Note: ‘There Was a Soldier – a Polish Soldier’: tracking Jan Wagner
George Robertson
Note: The Flemish People in Scotland: information urgently sought
John Irvine
Note: Goldsworthy Gurney’s Steam Road Carriage In Scotland
Don Martin
Each publication also contains Editorial, News Features and Book Reviews