The view across George Square in Glasgow to the 1880s City Chambers, with A. Handyside Ritchie's recently cleaned and restored 1837 statue of Sir Walter Scott in the foreground.

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Sir Walter Scott died on this day in 1832. In 1850, Nottingham solicitor William Parsons recorded a former Peel Castle guide ('Bumbadier...old Summers') calling Scott ‘the true historian of the place’.

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