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    Calton (Scottish Gaelic: A' Challtainn, lit. 'the hazel wood', Scots: Caltoun), known locally as The Calton, is a district in Glasgow. It is situated...
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    Tongland (gang area) (category Bridgeton–Calton–Dalmarnock)
    nickname for the area of Calton, Glasgow controlled in the 1960s by a violent Scottish teenage gang called the Real Calton Tongs. The Tongs financed...
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  • The Calton weavers were a community of handweavers established in the community of Calton, then in Lanarkshire just outside Glasgow, Scotland in the 18th...
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    east of Glasgow city centre. Historically part of Lanarkshire, it is bounded by Glasgow Green to the west, Dalmarnock to the east and south, Calton to the...
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    Street), Calton, Glasgow, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid on 6 November 1887, with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the East End of Glasgow by raising...
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  • Calton may refer to: Places: Calton, Argyll and Bute, a location in Scotland Calton, Glasgow, Scotland Calton (ward), an electoral ward of the Glasgow...
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    Administratively, it is part of the Calton ward of the Glasgow City Council area. The important Gallowgate road runs from Glasgow Cross to Parkhead and includes...
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    varied from 54 years in Calton to 82 years in nearby Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire. The city centre is bounded by High Street at Glasgow Cross the historic centre...
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    Mary's is a Catholic church in Calton, Glasgow, Scotland. It is the second oldest church in the Archdiocese of Glasgow and acted as the Pro-Cathedral...
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    City of Glasgow wards of Calton, Dalmarnock, Exchange, and Townhead. 1983–1997: The City of Glasgow District electoral divisions of Central/Calton, Kingston/Hutchesontown...
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    Calton (Ward 9) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. On its creation in 2007 and in 2012 it returned three council members, using the single...
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    Barrowland is sometimes used to describe the Calton district of Glasgow, where the market is located. One of Glasgow's most famous institutions, The Barras was...
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    singer. Simm started singing with the band at two shows: St Lukes in Calton, Glasgow, and 229 The Venue in London in November 2018. Following on from their...
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    and music venue located in the Calton district in Glasgow, Scotland. A prominent feature of the music scene in Glasgow, the venue has appeared in various...
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  • Glasgow, South Glasgow and East Glasgow. East Glasgow had the most identified gangs with 41 followed by South Glasgow with 38 and North Glasgow with 31. The...
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  • and Merchant City as well as parts of Cowcaddens, Townhead, Anderston and Calton. The city centre is based on a grid system of streets, similar to that of...
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  • Gun (band) (redirect from The Calton Songs)
    "Gun's The Calton Songs: a rum affair indeed". louder. Retrieved 30 July 2024. Aizlewoodpublished, John (16 October 2022). "Gun's The Calton Songs: a rum...
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    Organization in 2008, the male life expectancy at birth in the Calton area of Glasgow between 1998–2002 was 54 years. A local doctor attributed this to...
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    has had a number of solo releases. Eugene Kelly formed The Vaselines in Glasgow, Scotland in 1986 with Frances McKee and was a member until 1989 when the...
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    Bridgeton, Calton, Dalmarnock, Gallowgate, Newbank, Parkhead (part) Anderston, Charing Cross, Cowcaddens, Finnieston, Garnethill, Glasgow City Centre...
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  • Botany, Braidfauld, Bridgeton, Broomhouse, Broomhill, Budhill, Cadder, Calton, Camlachie, Carmyle, Carntyne, Colston, Cowcaddens, Cowlairs, Craigend,...
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    The Glasgow razor gangs were violent gangs that existed in the East End and South Side of Glasgow, Scotland in the late 1920s and 1930s and were named...
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    influence his best known cartoon strip. The fictional Calton Creek (Calton is a district of Glasgow) was an outpost of the wild west, supposedly located...
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  • John Stevenson, born 10 December 1861, in Calton, Glasgow a district in the City of Glasgow. He was a Scottish footballer who played in the English Football...
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  • Norman Conks (category Bridgeton–Calton–Dalmarnock)
    with the Calton Tongs who were also mostly Catholic. The gang included young women. Glasgow razor gangs Gangs in the United Kingdom#Glasgow Sectarianism...
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  • anniversary of the event. Calton at the time of the strike was a handweaving community just outside Glasgow in Scotland. At the peak of Calton's prosperity, wages...
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    of the City of Glasgow: Southside Central (part), Calton, Anderston/City/Yorkhill (part), Shettleston, and Baillieston (part). Glasgow Baillieston had...
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    Report Ward 9 Calton". Glasgow City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2023. "Candidate votes per stage Ward 9 Calton". Glasgow City Council....
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  • for prostitution and Margo MacDonald referred to Blythswood Square in Glasgow as having been in the past a haunt of prostitutes. Scotland portal Prostitution...
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    of Sex Work Projects United Sex Workers x:talk Red-light districts Calton, Glasgow Gropecunt Lane Hillfields Kings Cross, London Leith Mountfields, Shrewsbury...
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