Lister Street, Townhead, Glasgow.
The Hurdy Gurdy. 1991.
What is a Hurdy Gurdy…
In the NEWS 1978.
The Real truth about the Hurdy Gurdy
“What is, or was, a Hurdy Gurdy? There is a pub in Townhead with that name, and its motif is a barrel-organ.
In my young days in that district, a hurdy-gurdy was a circular tent, hand-winched, which came round the streets and we youngsters used to pay a half-penny for about a minute’s merry-go-round.”
A Hurdy-Gurdy was a hand-manipulated street organ, sometimes full-sized and sometimes a smaller affair on the top of a wee pole. In olden times some of them had a small monkey trained to operate the handle which attracted weans and adults alike.
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In the NEWS 1979…
This is the pub that Anna Kenna left before she was killed in 1977. He body was found after a fox had dug up her body in the countryside.