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Glasgow Live
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Lee Dalgetty

When Glasgow children brought the Olympics to the streets of Maryhill in 1980

As the Moscow Olympics set off in 1980, excitement around sports peaked - and spread to Maryhill.

Here in Glasgow, back in the days when children played freely in the streets, kids used their imagination to bring the multi-sport event closer to home. Using old armchairs and discarded mattresses to create their own vaulting horses, the games were pictures by Ronnie Anderson for the Sunday Mail.

Speaking to the Daily Record in 2012, Ronnie said: “I took pictures at some of the biggest sporting events but this looked as much fun as any of them.”

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