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Interesting news · Monday 27 July

Part of the Barras is now called Maggie's Way

Glasgow · from glasgowtimes.co.uk

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The stretch of the Barras between Suffolk Street and Ross Street is now Maggie's Way. A plaque went up on Saturday, unveiled by Still Game's Gavin Mitchell and a great-grandson of the woman it is named after.

Margaret McIver started the market in 1921 with her husband James, giving Glasgow's barrow traders a fixed place to sell on a Saturday. She pushed for a roof over the stalls so the hawkers would not be worked into ill health by the weather. Widowed and raising nine children, she then built the Barrowland Ballroom, which began as somewhere for the traders to hold their Christmas dance.

David Bowie and Daft Punk have both played the Ballroom since. Saturday's renaming came with pipe bands, highland dancing and cooking demonstrations from Gary Maclean around the stalls.

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