People's Palace

Um, we came together actually just three and a half years ago.

Uh, a number of us had been at the International Workers' Day Memorial, uh, on Glasgow Green, near the closed People's Palace, another sad story.

Um, and we congregated afterwards, and we were just chatting about things in general.

We were in the Calton, in fact, in Calton Books where, where I help out, um, and basically bemo- bemoaned the fact that our first martyrs, uh, the Calton Weavers, lay in a graveyard that was neglected with no public signage.

Um, Glasgow City Council, uh, or Glasgow District Council as they were then in the '80s, uh, were desperate to change the image of the city, welders into waiters, um, a city where people could come and have holidays and, uh, marvel at the cultural, uh, legacy of people like Burrell, meanwhile neglecting our own working class roots and origin stories.

So remarkably, we saw kinda posh person's car boot sale collection going on display.

Uh, and subsequently of course, the People's Palace has fallen into disrepair.

Many of its artifacts, including the magnificent panels of the, uh, strike of the Calton Weavers commissioned, uh, and displayed there have been damaged.

this is maybe my imagination.

Did he ever spend time in the People's Palace, or was that a different dog?

He did not spend time in the People's Palace to the best of my knowledge.

All right.

It is my imagination.