This resulted in the closure of many of Scotland's smaller prisons. Between 1839 and 1862, seven of Glasgow's prisons were closed, leaving only Duke St.

I'd suggest that they might want to have a think and see if anything else happened in 2000 😬

They paraded in front of the Lord Provost, Sir D M Stevenson, some Magistrates and Col. Stanley Peterson, the Chief Recruiting Officer for Scotland. The Battalion went on to become the 15th Highland Light Infantry.

They had marched from the Highland Light Infantry Drill Hall in Garnethill and were under the charge of Mr James Dalrymple who was the tramways manager.

The tramway men were there to get the Corporation's approval for them to be the 1st Battalion. There were 1000 men there from all ranks within the corporation from conductors to motormen.

The parade took place on the 7th September 1914 and was a response to the Magistrates asking the Glasgow Corporation to form two battalions to help in the war effort.

These are the ships manifests of the SS Assyria and TSS Transylvania indicating his movements.

He wasn't a decorated war hero, and he didn't storm a German position or drag a fallen mate from no man's land. He was, like so many, just an ordinary working man who went off and did his bit and, thankfully, came back with the scars to prove it.

He returned to Scotland in 1931 and that's the last I know of him until his death from bronchial carcinoma on 1st September 1953 at the Belvidere Hospital. The photo is of the Belvidere in 1990. It was leveled and replaced by a housing estate. Today almost no trace of it remains.

By January 1925 Annie was pregnant again but inexplicably John set sail for America. I can only guess it was to see his brother William who'd emigrated there. This photo is of John and perhaps William, almost certainly in the US.

That injury effectively ended his war, and may have played a part in me being here today to tell his story. My grandfather, also John, was born in December 1917. A quick bit of arithmetic and it becomes clear why they were in such a hurry to marry back in May.

It was written by Captain Chaplain Wilson Smith of the 1st Australian General Hospital on 27th July 1917. It's a moment of levity from a time of unremitting trauma and misery. In it Captain Wilson writes that John is "no sae bad" and that "there was nae use o grumblin".

He was married in May 1917 to Annie McLachlan while on leave, and is listed as "On active service" on the marriage certificate. Five months later he was wounded somewhere near Rouen in northern France. How do I know that? Because of this letter.

Born on 13th August 1885 in Tradeston, Glasgow to John and Mary McAllister, he worked as a dock worker and enlisted in the army on the outbreak of war in 1914, aged 28. He served in the 2nd & 6th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders.

During the Second World War, the company turned over a large percentage of production to military service contracts, manufacturing regulation army boots and officer's footwear.

Saxone was the largest producer of footwear in the country, and operated a chain of 180 shops across the UK. Part of its success was due to the fact that they offered half sizes, and five different fittings for each size