I was walking past the Ramshorn Kirk on Ingram street yesterday and noticed that workers were replacing the pavement with a very attractive new one. Full credit to the council in that the new pavements are a great improvement and a joy to walk over without fear of tripping. It reminded me however of a piece of history about the Ramshorn kirk I read a few years ago, about how the widening of Ingram street had meant that graves now lay under the current pavement. No concern seemed to be given about disturbing the graves of those dignitaries of Glasgow's past. Here is a passage from Strathclyde Universities 'History of the Ramshorn Kirk' :
The Foulis Brothers, founders of the early newspaper ‘The Glasgow Courant’, which eventually became ‘The Herald’, are buried under the pavement in Ingram Street. Their remains were not disturbed when the street was widened. They are commemorated with a concrete paving stone engraved RF + AF.
