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    The Fish Market, opened in 1872, moved to Blochairn in 1977, and after lying empty for some years this building had a brief and unsuccessful career as the Briggait shopping centre.  

January 1977
    These are usually referred to as sea-horses, but this seems inadequate.  They certainly have the head and shoulders of manic-looking horses, but the front feet are both webbed and clawed, while the scaly body tapers into a serpentine tail the end of which is also webbed and perhaps clawed. The roundel bears a crowned female head which has not even a passing resemblance to Victoria. The architects were Clarke and Bell, but the name of the sculptor is not known.   

January 1977
    Stockwell St from the south. The railway bridge was removed in the summer of 1978.  

March 1973