The one opposite Allan’s Pen Traditional Cache
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The one opposite Allan’s Pen
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ALLAN’S PEN Alexander Allan of Newhall was a merchant of Glasgow and felt that he should have exclusive access to the Green from his home and so decided to fashion a pen, sometimes viewed better as a passage about five feet wide, but a pen close was always considered to be wide enough for the passage of a horse and cart. Allan’s Pen however, so far as history can remember, would be about eight feet by eight. It was virtually a subway or tunnel, the side walls of stone and arched with brick, extending from the south-east exit of Glasgow Green to Rutherglen Bridge. This was done by turfing over the erection. It was an outrage on the public rights, but no action was taken. the river coming down in high flood with broken ice during the ensuing winter destroyed the greater part of the structure, on seeing which the proprietor made only half-hearted efforts at repair. Meantime his action had incensed the Bridgeton people, who were at that period mostly employed as hand-loom weavers and nearly all strongly imbued with Radical ideas. The result was that every one became Mr. Allan’s enemy, and he, while largely interested in the sugar trade of the West Indies, was also a manufacturer in the city and gave out webs to be woven. In this he was boycotted, as the weavers declined to work to him, even at increased rates. This was the first check that his arrogant and over bearing attitude to the public got. Not long, Mr Allan sold his property and left the city.
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