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Maggie's Centre in Glasgow, designed by Page\Park Architects. Glasgow's first Maggie's centre opened in 2002 and was located at the Western Infirmary on Dumbarton Road, near the Kelvingrove Museum. [5] The centre was housed in a former gatehouse lodge of the University of Glasgow, renovated and altered by Page\Park Architects. Charles Jencks ...
Maggie is a British television drama series produced by BBC Scotland which aired on BBC Two between 1981 and 1982. It was based on a quartet of books written by Joan Lingard during the 1970s – The Clearance , The Resettling , The Pilgrimage and The Reunion .
Maggie McIver was born Margaret Russell in Bridgeton, Glasgow, on 9 May 1879. Her father, Alexander Russell, was a policeman and her mother, Margaret Hutcheson, was a French polisher. Before opening her own fruit shop, Maggie worked as a French polisher just like her mother.
Maggie's Glasgow: Glasgow: 2003 Page\Park Architects: 52 Maggie's Dundee: Dundee: 2004 Frank Gehry and Fred Stephens: 53 Maggie's Inverness: Inverness: 2005 Page\Park Architects: 54 Anderston Centre: Glasgow: 1972 Richard Seifert Company & Partnership: 55 The Drum Phase 3 Bo'ness: 2004 Malcolm Fraser: 56 Pennycook Court Perth Road, Dundee: 1986 ...
A derivative, the Super Scooby, was invented by The Jolly Fryer café in Bristol in 2009. It consists of four 110 g (1 ⁄ 4 lb) beef patties, eight rashers of bacon, eight slices of cheese, 12 onion rings and six slices of tomato in a sesame seed bun, accompanied by salad, lettuce, barbecue sauce and mayonnaise.
One of Glasgow's most famous institutions, The Barras was founded by James and Maggie McIver in the interwar years. McIver hired over 300 barrows to local hawkers in her yard in Marshall Lane. [1] This was in response to the Local Corporation wishing to stop local street traders and the street traders being charged by the police.
In 1948 with the introduction of the National Health Service the Western Infirmary came under the management of the Glasgow Western Hospitals Board of Management. [8] A£3.5 million two-phase rebuilding programme was authorised by the Glasgow Corporation in June 1962. [9] The 256–bed Phase 1 block was completed in 1974.
It is topped by a stone cross and bears the painted inscription "Maggie Wall burnt here 1657 as a witch". [1] [2] The monument is the only known monument erected in memory of a witch in Scotland. [3] The first record of the monument appears around 1800, [3] but exactly when the monument was erected is contested. [2]