'We made people laugh': Famous Glasgow street theatre star Big Rory to retire

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'We made people laugh': Famous Glasgow street theatre star Big Rory to retire
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We will miss him 😥.. what are your memories of Big Rory?

Big Rory, aka Mike Rowan, with John Brown as Morag, and inset, meeting Margaret Thatcher at the Garden Festival in Glasgow in 1988

“A friend was putting on a show in Tel Aviv and asked whether I fancied ‘being a Scotsman’ in it. I had learned how to stiltwalk, so I said, how about a giant Scotsman? And Big Rory was born.”He adds: “He has taken me to 38 countries, including, for a year of my life, Japan, and to the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.

A perplexed Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister, meeting Big Rory on a Glasgow Garden Festival walkabout in 1988

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