| 词条 | Maggie McIver |
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| name = Margaret McIver | native_name = Maggie Mciver | birth_name = Margaret Russell | birth_date = 9 May 1879 | birth_place = Glasgow | death_date = 1958 | citizenship = British | occupation = Business Owner | known_for = Founding the Barras market }} Margaret "Maggie" McIver (1879-1958) was the founder of the Glasgow Barras, a street market in the Calton area, in the East end of Glasgow. Initially an area of street markets, it became a permanent site when a roof was added to protect the stalls from bad weather and it now has over a thousand stalls within 10 markets. It is also the location of the Barrowland Ballroom, one of the city's main rock and pop venues. Early lifeMaggie McIver, also known as "The Barras Queen", was born Margaret Russell in Bridgeton, Glasgow on the 9 May 1879. Her father, Alexander Russell, was a policeman and her mother, Margaret Hutcheson was a French polisher. Before opening her own fruit shop, Maggie worked as a French polisher just like her mother. She met her husband James McIver at the fruit market and they set up their own business hiring out horses and carts to local hawkers.[1] The BarrasMcIver hired over 300 barrows to local hawkers in her yard in Marshall Lane.[2] This was in response to the Local Corporation wishing to stop local street traders and the street traders being charged by the police. In 1926, Maggie McIver decided to cover the market mainly to protect clothing hawkers from having their stock ruined. The market was fully enclosed two years later.[3] The BarrowlandsIt was common practice for McIver to host a Christmas party for the hawkers and their families in a local hall. One year, when McIver was unable to hire the hall, she decided to build her own, the famous Barrowland Ballrooms which opened Christmas Eve 1934. CommemorationA plaque has been added to the Barrowlands Ballroom to commemorate Maggie McIver as part of twelve Scots being honoured by Historic Environment Scotland (HES).[4] There is also a commemorative stone carving at one of the gate entrances to Glasgow Green. References1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://illuminatedlettersproject.wordpress.com/archive/on-the-shelves-of-glasgow-womens-library/maggie-mciver-1879-1958/|title=Maggie McIver (1879-1958)|date=2013-04-26|work=Illuminated Letters|access-date=2018-10-29|language=en-US}} {{DEFAULTSORT:McIver, Maggie}}2. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1432.html|title=The Barras from The Gazetteer for Scotland|access-date=2018-10-29}} 3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30477923|title=The hidden history of Glasgow's women : the Thenew factor|last=Elspeth.|first=King,|date=1993|publisher=Mainstream Pub|isbn=1851584048|location=Edinburgh|oclc=30477923}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.thenational.scot/news/15522610.dancehall-queen-maggie-mciver-among-12-scots-honoured-with-heritage-plaques/|title=Dancehall queen Maggie McIver among 12 Scots honoured with heritage plaques|website=The National|language=en|access-date=2018-10-29}} 8 : 1879 births|1958 deaths|People from Glasgow|Scottish businesspeople|Glasgow Green|People from Bridgeton, Glasgow|19th-century Scottish women|20th-century Scottish women |
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