Plaque
Mary Barbour Conference Suite
Text on plaque inside the Mary Barbour Suite:
Mary Barbour
22 February 1875 - 2 April 1958
This conference suite is dedicated to the memory of one of Govan's great
working class heroes Mary Barbour. This remarkable woman challenged
oppression and poverty in both Govan and Glasgow during the First World War
by saying “NO” to unjustified and extortionate rent increases inflicted upon local
people by wealthy landlords. She organised the city wide Rent Strikes of 1915 and
supported by her “Mrs Barbour’s Women’s Army” of demonstrators forced the
Government to introduce the Rent Restriction Act of 1915. A true Red Clydesider
Mary Barbour was the first woman Labour Councillor elected to the Glasgow
Town Council in 1920 and became the first woman Baillie of the City in 1924.
Opened 17th April 2009 by Councillor John Flanagan
Plaque to Christian Fyfe
THIS MEMORIAL RECALLS THE MEN AND WOMEN, NOBLES AND PLAIN FOLK, MINISTERS, SOLDIERS AND OTHERS, WHO WERE EXECUTED BETWEEN 1661 AND 1688 FOR THEIR ADHERENCE TO THE REFORMED RELIGION AND TO THE COVENANTS...
7 April 1682 Christian Fyfe of Fife
Plaque to Marion Harvie
THIS MEMORIAL RECALLS THE MEN AND WOMEN, NOBLES AND PLAIN FOLK, MINISTERS, SOLDIERS AND OTHERS, WHO WERE EXECUTED BETWEEN 1661 AND 1688 FOR THEIR ADHERENCE TO THE REFORMED RELIGION AND TO THE COVENANTS...
16 Jan. 1681 Marion Harvie, servant in Bo'ness
Plaque to Isabel Allison
THIS MEMORIAL RECALLS THE MEN AND WOMEN, NOBLES AND PLAIN FOLK, MINISTERS, SOLDIERS AND OTHERS, WHO WERE EXECUTED BETWEEN 1661 AND 1688 FOR THEIR ADHERENCE TO THE REFORMED RELIGION AND TO THE COVENANTS...
16 Jan. 1681 Isabel Allison of Perth...
Plaque at Edinburgh University, in honour of Chrystal Macmillan
In honour of JESSIE CHRYSTAL MACMILLAN
1872 - 1937
Suffragist, founder of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, first woman science graduate of the University (1896)
Railings, Gates and Plaque to Phoebe Anna Traquair
PHOEBE ANNA TRAQUAIR
RAILINGS AND GATES
THESE WROUGHT-IRON RAILINGS AND GATES
WERE COMMISSIONED BY THE WELL-KNOWN
EDINBURGH PRINTER WALTER BIGGAR BLAIKIE
FOR HIS HOUSE IN COLINTON
THEY WERE DESIGNED BY PHOEBE ANNA TRAQUAIR
WITH TECHNICAL HELP FROM THE ARCHITECT FRANK MEARS
AND MADE IN 1924 BY THOMAS HADDEN,
THE LEADING DECORATIVE WROUGHT-IRON WORKER IN SCOTLAND.
PHOEBE ANNA TRAQUAIR LIVED IN COLINTON
AND WAS ONE OF THE MOST VERSATILE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE
LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT.
THE ORNAMENTAL RAILINGS ARE A UNIQUE EXAMPLE
OF HER WORK IN WROUGHT IRON. THEY WERE RESTORED BY THE
COLINTON COMMUNITY CONSERVATION TRUST IN 2007,
USING CHRIS TOPP & CO LTD., ARTIST BLACKSMITHS
FROM YORKSHIRE.
AND FORBES DAVIDSON & CO. lTD.,
STONE MASONS FROM EDINBURGH...
Plaque to Alexina MacKintosh
In testimony of the faithful instruction of Alexina MacKintosh who died October 5th 1838 in her 21st year. The Infant School under her tuition for four years was a model of obedience, intelligence and love. Fourteen of her little flock preceded her to the tomb. She taught them to know Jesus Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life. She had herself learnt that "except ye become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works do follow them."
Stone Plaque in Memory of Mrs Bramwell Booth
THIS STONE WAS LAID FOR
"THE GLORY OF GOD"
BY
MRS BRAMWELL BOOTH
OF THE SALVATION ARMY
FEBRUARY 6TH 1911
NGR NT 25297 73281
Plaque to Emma Caird (or Marryat)
Emma Caird or Marryat
Public Benefactor
1849-1927
This is no. 25 on the Dundee Women's Trail.
Plaque to Janet Keiller
Janet Keiller
Mrs Marmalade
1737-1813
This is no. 24 in the Dundee Women's Trail.