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Post by Waverley on Jan 1, 2008 22:00:24 GMT 1
Does anyone remember Adams's Scrap yard offices and yard in the Gallowgate between Springfield Road and Kent's the grain store builidng. There used to be a statue of a horse and a ring master on the small building as you entered the gates ...does anyone know the story behind them.
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Post by trotsky on Jan 2, 2008 16:55:38 GMT 1
I remember the yard, it was lit up with floodlights at night and had two big Alsatian dugs that were behind a wire fence in a yard that was on top of a building, I thought it was a house but maybe it was the office, I vaguely remember the statue thing but don't know any stories about it. Remember the grain store as well where I used to go with the Mother to guy bags of loose porridge for the breakfast and barley for the soup, they used to scoop it out of big sacks and weight it before putting it into brown paper bags.
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Post by Waverley on Feb 28, 2008 14:40:56 GMT 1
Another photo of the Race Master that was in Adam's yard at Parkhead Cross.
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Post by tammccann on May 10, 2008 22:28:45 GMT 1
Charlie i know one of the directors of adams, David Walker ill ask him for any auld pics from the office , they also had a garage in springfield rd were they had a Jensen interceptor parked
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2008 20:25:50 GMT 1
I always remember the baw bein' kicked into Adams, when we played fitba at Newlands. Remember gettin "segs" fur ma shoes fae Maxwell's leather shop next door tae the school.
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Post by Sandy Hills on Jan 5, 2009 18:57:46 GMT 1
I can remember John R. Adam as owning racehorses trained by Ryan Jarvis,and his workers always getting a tip when to have a bet on them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2009 19:52:38 GMT 1
My best Pal in the world Harry's Wife Kit worked there in the sixties. She was his secretary. Many a story we were told
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Post by ixus55 on Jan 15, 2009 11:01:16 GMT 1
I was friendly with Jock Arbuckle who had something to do with Adams. I think he was the manager and was always good for a few tips at the horses. Ixus 55
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Post by iancrockert on Apr 27, 2010 15:24:53 GMT 1
I lived across the road from adams scrap yard 1945/1963 i remember it well
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Post by jawbox on Apr 27, 2010 16:21:59 GMT 1
I too remember the Scrappy - on the Springfield Road entrance very often there used to be a lorry parked in the doorway - it had a Red Indian Chief mascot as the radiator cap - cant remember if it was a Dennis or an Albion or another make of lorry. It might have had a temperature guage behind the Indian's head but I'm not sure.
Haha just had another thought - did anyone ever get a "hudgie" on the back of a lorry or a horse & cart? happy days! ;D
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Post by johnreilly on Jul 29, 2010 9:33:44 GMT 1
OMG hudgies sure nudge the memory back . I remember getting a hudgie on a sir william arrol lorry along east wellington st and getting thrown off half way along .
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