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FURTHER to your excellent article on Govan (December 20), I have fond memories of working there as a Glasgow public-health doctor in the 1950s. We inhabited the magnificent Victorian Govan Town Hall which overlooked the busy dockyards and was our headquarters. I think my office/consulting room formerly belonged to the town clerk: spacious was not the word.
At the entrance to the building, below the imposing front doors, was a huge mosaic of the coat of arms of the burgh with, underneath, the motto "Nihil Sine Labore". This was translated by the locals as "Nae sign of work". A real calumny considering the health problems of the Govan people we were trying to tackle.See the full content of this document
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