He was alsoa founding member of what is now the Labour Party (1900), became one of its first MPs (winning Merthyr Tydfil in 1900), and was its first parliamentary leader (1906 to 1908).
A blue plaque at the crematorium in Glasgow's Western Necropolis marking the centenary of the death of the Scottish trade unionist James Keir Hardie. Amongst other things, Keir Hardie founded the Scottish Labour Party (1888) and became the first British member of parliament elected to represent working people (winning the seat of West Ham South in 1892).
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A beautifully sculpted lion around the entrance to the red sandstone Gothic style chapel in the Western Necropolis in the Lambhill area of Glasgow. Designed by James Chalmers, it was built in the 1890s.
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The memorial to the Cadder Pit Disaster at Lambhill Stables in the north of Glasgow. On the 3rd of August 1913, a fire broke out at Cadder No. 15 Pit, killing 22 of the 26 men who were underground at the time.
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Aurelius by Malcom Robertson. Positioned on the line of the Antonine Wall behind the Lambhill Stables, this giant head looks out from the site of a former fort across what was once the northern frontier of the Roman Empire and into the barbarian terrritory beyond.
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The archway below the stable is a bank opening, which allowed goods to move through the canal bank to and from the quay on the canal itself.
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Lambhill Stables on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow. This was one of four stables built to the same classical design (similar to that used for Canal House at Speirs Wharf) along the canal in the early 1800s. These provided fresh horses at regular intervals for Swifts (fast passenger boats travellig the length of the canal). The other similar stables were at Shirva, Crainmarloch and Easter Cadder near Kirkintilloch.
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