WE couldn't let July pass without a Glasgow Fair holiday picture, and this one is astonishing. It's the queue of people at the start of the Glasgow Fair patiently waiting for buses heading south from the Port Dundas area of Glasgow in 1972. I try to follow the queue with my eye and for one horrible moment I thought the queue joined up with itself and the holidaymakers were actually in one constant loop going nowhere.
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When you think that even a double decker only holds about 70 passengers you realise that some of these people have a bit of a wait ahead of them. Many will be headed for Blackpool, the Lake District, and some adventurous souls will be going to London.
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When young folk ask why so many people took the Glasgow Fair fortnight as a holiday when it would be quieter at other times, you have to explain that factories and other large employers found it simpler to shut the factory for that fortnight, allowing maintenance work, and the workers had no choice in when they had to take their holidays. And then the young folk ask what a factory was....
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