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  • He was a chemistry teacher in Dumbarton, Kirkintilloch and Glasgow, becoming a deputy-head from 1974-87, and Secretary of his Constituency Labour Party before he entered Parliament.

    The financial experts in government Not a sheep 2009

  • I had already seen the Dutch barge and the Wee Spark at Kilsyth and the ship-shaped bridge at Kirkintilloch on my recce run and it was good to see them again, but the moments that were most significant were the unexpected ones

    Easter Eggs all the year round 2010

  • I had already seen the Dutch barge and the Wee Spark at Kilsyth and the ship-shaped bridge at Kirkintilloch on my recce run and it was good to see them again, but the moments that were most significant were the unexpected ones

    Ada Lovelace Day 2010

  • Washing dishes in a local Indian restaurant in Kirkintilloch aged 16.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Jeff 2009

  • In an interview with BBC's Frontline program, Mitchell, from Kirkintilloch near Glasgow, describes the beatings which he claims led him to sign false confessions.

    Daimnation!: Those civilized Saudis 2003

  • My Kirkintilloch career spanned two years, during which time I was officially appointed a detective constable.

    Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover Corbet, David 2002

  • When the call came for me to exchange my uniform for a detective's suit, I was not to be posted as I had anticipated, at Easterhouse, where the bad blood continued, but at Kirkintilloch, a middle-class town outside Glasgow, and then almost immediately to Bishopbriggs.

    Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover Corbet, David 2002

  • At Baird Street we dealt with 14 killings in a single year and clocked up far more experience than Kirkintilloch could ever have afforded us.

    Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover Corbet, David 2002

  • ‘I thought you came from Kirkintilloch,’ said Laura.

    My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

  • In 1820 he removed from Chryston, and accepted employment as a sawyer in the villages of Banton and Arnbrae, in Kilsyth; in 1826 he proceeded to Kirkintilloch, where he resumed the labours of the loom; in

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

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