IT'S not often you see a world champion sportsman with a fag in his hand, but those were different days. This is Glasgow's Central Station in January, 1937, after Benny Lynch's triumphal return by train from London where he had won the World Flyweight title against tough Filipino boxer Small Montana, to become Scotland's first world champion in boxing.

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There were an estimated 10,000 fans in the station patiently waiting to see Benny, and when his train arrived, the crowd broke through the police lines to mob him. No wonder the driver of the car sent to collect him from the platform looks a tad distressed - probably wondering if they are going to tip his car over in their enthusiasm. Benny's wife in the back seat doesn't look overly happy either.

There was a piper who was leading Benny's car out of the station, but as The Herald recorded: "The piper was swept off his feet."

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The car made slow progress out into Gordon Street before finally picking up speed to take Benny home to Burnside where another crowd had gathered outside.

It is scenes like this which made the committee gathering money to make a statue of Benny originally consider Central Station as a home for the monument.