Does Wykes Folly (Espedair Street) exist?
“No, no. It’s kind of an amalgam of various things, slightly weird properties on that side of Glasgow. In that west end part of Glasgow, there’s a lot of strange-looking temples and churches and things of a religious nature. A lot of them have become restaurants, and even nightclubs… they aren’t used for their original purpose now, so there’s that sort of feel about them. The exact place is fairly well-defined, because it’s on a corner between three different streets. I think when I wrote it, it was an old tenement, a block of flats, and I think they’d already boarded it up because it was about to be knocked down. I think it’s now an office building or something, in the exact position.
