Unable to afford any other accommodation, they would spend their nights sleeping in the shelter provided by these house-sized rocks before heading back to the city when their time was up.

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The Narnain Rocks in the valley between Beinn Narnain, disappearing off to the right, and the Cobbler, disappearing into the cloud on the left, in the Arrochar Alps. In the 1930s, groups of factory workers, shipyard employees and the unemployed from Glasgow would, whenever they could get the time, make their way here by any means possible to challenge themselves by climbing the many surrounding rock faces.

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