Glasgow Leisure
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of about 12,000 objects related to leisure in Glasgow. These date from 1800 to the present. This collection encompasses a wide variety of objects, from paintings, prints and photographs to golf clubs, football jerseys, trophies and boxing gloves. A large part of the collection represents theatres, music halls, pantomime performances, circuses, waxworks and cinemas. Much of the collection is also associated with individual popular performers, such as Harry Lauder, Chic Murray, Rikki Fulton and Billy Connolly. Many sporting activities are represented, mainly through medals, shields, trophies, programmes, membership cards, ephemera and some costume. This includes the international football jerseys of Celtic player Jimmy McGrory and Rangers player Andrew Cunningham, and memorabilia of Celtic player Jimmy McGrory. Among the significant items are the performing dog Private Towser, George West’s pantomime costume from the 1920s and 1930s, a Billy Connolly costume from the 1970s, and stage props, images and equipment used by street entertainer and juggler ‘Old Malabar’. There is also a 1959 jukebox, costume from the BBC series ‘Rab C Nesbitt’, and a ticket to a reading by Charles Dickens. The collection is also supported by a sizeable collection of oral histories.
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