Duke Street Prison

P and V did the recce with me for the Ramblers Scottish Council walk. P who was raised in Shettleston was a font of information. The view from the Merchants’ bridge leading to the Neocropolis shows the former site of the Duke Street Women’s Prison, demolished to make way for the Ladywell Housing Scheme. It appointed the first female Governor in 1946, and was where the last women was executed in Scotland, in 1923.

We repaired to Café Nero where still on the death theme V entertained us with an account of an exhumation party in Mexico she encountered on one of her South American trips.