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Stone Condition: Sound Material: Marble Height: 0.38 Breadth: 0.51 Depth: 0.08 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: Not known Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

Left side -

A TOKEN
OF RESPECT
TO THE
MEMORY OF
FRANK MCDONALD

Right side -

FROM HIS
WORKMATES
IN
COPLAWHILL
CAR WORKS

Family History

The small marble plaque placed at the foot of Monument S12 has no apparent connection with the Wallace family.

The plaque shaped in the form of an open book was a remembrance token often placed on or near to a grave of a friend or relative. This style of token was particularly common from Victorian times to the present.

The person named on this plaque appears to have worked in the Coplawhill Car Works, and colleagues thought sufficiently kindly of him that they contributed to this small memorial token. The Coplawhill Car Works, owned and operated by Glasgow Corporation, was situated in Pollokshaws Rd at Albert Dr, Glasgow. Opening in 1903 for the repair and manufacture of horse drawn tramcars they continued through the onset of electric tramcars until closing in 1962. At their peak they employed 296 operatives skilled in all trades associated with engineering, carpentry and decoration. Nothing else is known as to the identity of Frank McDonald, the person commemorated on this plaque.