Corten Steel life size art installation of Jimmy Reid, trade Union Leader

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Jimmy Reid, who died in 2010, was a trade union activist, orator, politician and journalist born in Govan, Glasgow. He won international recognition for leading the Upper Clyde shipbuilders 'work-in' in the early 1970s to try to stop the Conservative Government from closing down the shipyards. Bike charity Sustrans, received £50 million from the Big Lottery Fund to extend its National Cycle Network across the UK, and built a portrait bench along the new route, which features three lifesize 2D figures of local heroes Jimmy Reid, James Watt and Tom Weir.

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Size: 4480px × 6720px
Location: Argyle Street, Glasgow, Scotland UK
Photo credit: © PictureScotland / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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