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Streets of Bridgeton ...........Main
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Bridgeton Main Street, c1906. Looking
towards Bridgeton Cross, see the umbrella in the background.
The building on the right belonged to the local volunteer corps, the 7th (Blythswood)
Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry.
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Bridgeton
Main Street, circa August 1914
The 1/7th (Blythswood) Battalion Highland Light Infantry leaving their
headquarters in Main Street, Bridgeton.
The battalion served with the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division at
Gallipoli and in Egypt, Palestine, France and Belgium during the First
World War. In 1920 a Celtic
cross was erected on Glasgow Green in memory of the members of the
battalion who fell in the First World War.
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.Glasgow man, Private George Rodgers of the
list Regiment (later the HLI) and holder of the
Victoria Cross.
On June 16 1858 at Marar, Gwalior in India Private George Rodgers
attacked single-handedly a party of seven rebels, one of whom he killed.
This was a particularly vital act of bravery as the party of rebels were all
armed and strongly posted in the line of advance of a detachment of the 71st
Regiment. His grave is at the Southern
Necropolis
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Bridgeton Main Street, HLI building sadly has been
replaced with modern tenements
From the old photograph above the two pubs and corner tenement at Muslin
Street have survived along with the tenement building to the left of the
old hall.
We reckon these new flats that replaced the Territorial Hall opened around
1980.
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more Main
Street
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