Parkhead Cross photos

[Waverley]

[Waverley]

Yet another of the Cross from circa 1910.

[Isabel]

Great pictures of Parkhead Cross. I was born just down from the cross. I was born at 31, Mc Ewan Street in 1948. My late father was also born in Mc Ewan Street but he was born there in 1911. We both attended Newlands at one point or another and my father did his secondary education at Quarrybrae. I left Parkhead when the family moved to Castlemilk in late 1956 but I continued to travel to Newlands until they finished building the primary school there in the summer of 1957. Great site never get tired of looking through it. I now live in Falkirk.
PS Can anyone tell me what year Newlands school opened?
thanks

[trotsky]

That picture, it just reminded me, there used to be toilets at the Cross, you can see the old black iron railings, you went down some steps to get into them. they must have been filled in and moved to the new building across the road in Burgher St. There was also a drinking well next to the toilets with iron cups attached to chains for the people to have a drink and a tray at the bottom for the horses to have a drink, they must have been removed and the corner extended to make way for the tram thing you can see from the first picture. Does anybody know whn this happened? Is that Westmuir street behind the people looking at the camera, if so the bakers must have become the bank, but what is the big building in the background? Also I wonder if that was the same clock that is above the bakers that was moved across the Road and put up on the corner of Burgher St?

[rfaedoonunder]

hello Waverly hope this is a wee bit better jist scrub oot the wan ye dont want my Daughter cleaned it for ye .happy new year tae awe you keelies
rfaedoonunder

[Waverley]

[adaline]

Don't know if I am on the right page for this but here goes.
My mother is quite a private person and this is why I have not said this before but yesterday we were having a conversation about Parkhead and I was telling her about Glesga Keelies and Glesga pals, she has given me permission to write this.

She was born in Ayr but brought up at 185 Tollcross Rd also known as the scabby lawn her maiden name is Murphy she is one of 4 sisters her father died young leaving my Granny (Mary Murphy) to bring up 4 girls on her own, and I tell you she made a great job of this as they were 4 lovely lassies.
At age just 4 and a half she started at Elbalane school this would be at the end of 1930 then went onto St. Michaels primary I think this would have been in Salamanca St, her first teacher was Miss Seanan (Don't know if this is the right spelling), her second teacher was Miss Keating who she didn't like as she was a redhead and nasty with it, then she had miss Mckewn who she adored, then at the age of 11 she went onto St Marks secondary and when the war broke out and the children were being evacuated most of them going up north she went to stay with her grandparents in Ayr and continued to go to school there.
When she came back to stay in Tollcross Rd the war was still going on and she was telling me that during the air raids they had to go to a tunnel under Parkhead garage (or as she calls it the depot) the young ones would make sure the auld biddies got into the shelter and she was saying if the germans bombed their bit they would have had no chance as it took them ages to get the auld yins there. It must have been awful at this time.
During this time my Granny (Mary murphy) worked in the munitions at Beardmores just at the white gates in Duke St. My granny also worked in the pie work and Barrs ginger work.
In leaving school at the age of 14 she went to work, she worked in Martins Leather work in Brigton (not sure if this was her first job) and this is where she met my dad at the age of 16 they married at the age of 21 but hey! thats a different story and maybe someday I'll put what I know about his life on the Brigton page.
Her Aunt Nellie McGeachan owned the fruit shop facing the Tavern in Tollcross Rd this was before you got to Crail St from the cross going towards Tollcross. Nellie had 2 sons Danny and John.
Her uncle John Hamilton worked in the coffin works facing St Michaels primary in Salamanca St.
I know he came from Janefield St. and then moved to Greenfield.
She remembers the 3ps' (parkhead picture palace) facing Helenvale St. Also going round from Tollcross Rd to Westmuir St at the cross the shop there at that time was called Campbells I asked her what they sold and she said my Granny would have said anything from a needle to an anchor, near there in Westmuir St was a clothing shop called Smiths and Galls shop further along near Sorby St. She also remembers the wee ILP hall next to the Tavern in Tollcross Rd.
Her and her sister who are sadly the only 2 left out of the 4 used to go dancing at a hall called the hut somewhere in and around Methvin St. Parkhead Public (forgot to ask where this was) and a hall in Dalveen St. They weren't allowed to go to the big halls at this time mainly the Barrowland.

Hope I haven't bored any of you with this story but I have enjoyed telling you about it as it is part of my family history.

PS. as you have probably worked out my mother and her sister are now in their eighties and still meet twice a week in the forge at Parkhead, and my mother goes line dancing with my sister and I every week (not bad for her age eh)!

[Waverley]

Adaline hen a great wee posting giving us some idea of the social life of old Parkhead. The Hut as you called it would've been the pavillion of Parkhead Juniors Football Club at Helenslea Park in Methven Street. Campbells was a chain of shops on Tollcross Road. Not sure of the wee ILP Hall next to the Tollcross Tavern...I believe it was further along in the wee street next to the Anchor Bar but she may have known another hall in her time.

Great stuff and tell yer Maw I really appreciate her wee contribution to this board and it is stuff like this that makes the board all the more worthwhile.

[trotsky]

Nice reading the post Adaline and Charlie sums it up well.
What never ceases to amaze is the way all these experiences and memories connect together. When you were writing about the uncle John that worked in the coffin works, I was just thinking that in all likelihood John would have been one of the men who used to play fitba outside the works in the lunch time or walked past a wee group of kids in his way to and from work who would be hanging about outside Annie's corner shop, or could even be one of the guys who would chase us away from the gates when we were trying to sneak into the coffin works to "Liberate" the long wood cuttings that we used for making swords and lances when playing on the street. He could have walked past us and smiled when going into Annie's for his fags, or kick our ball back to us when it went astray as he passed by, "hey mister can ye gees oor ball back", connections and memories

[Waverley]

Did that pub not end up being called Ward's and was known locally and still referred to by Parkheidians as 'the Daft Shop'. I believe they had a peever bed painted on the floor and once had a photo in the newspapers of a horse drinking a beer in the bar.

[trotsky]

admin said:

Did that pub not end up being called Ward's and was known locally and still referred to by Parkheidians as 'the Daft Shop'. I believe they had a peever bed painted on the floor and once had a photo in the newspapers of a horse drinking a beer in the bar.

That was the pub on the corner of our tenement and my Dads local, it's official name was Wards but was known as the Daft Shop. The horse was brought into the pub for a drink one summers evening. It was hired out by a wee carter guy who got chopped up sticks from the stick yard across from the pub and went around the houses in Denniston with the horse and cart selling them, the horse was from the stables that was under the railway bridge as you went along Duke Street. If I remember the story right (because I heard it from my Dad and the carter guy who I knew because we used to help him sell the sticks) he had left the horse outside the yard to go iand order the bunches of sticks and some guys from the pub came out and undid the harness and took the horse it into the pub, when he came out of the yard the horse was gone but when he heard the commotion coming out of the pub he quickly realized what had happened and went over and joined the horse at the bar for another round ;D

[trotsky]

Very funny pwm, a few weeks later, after the horses appearance in the pub, one of the guys who was drinking in the pub at the time was brought up before the Sheriff Court fur kissing the horse, the sheriff found him guilty and sentenced him to eat a bale of hay, “a canny eat a bale of hay” said yur man, “listen” said the sheriff “if it's good enough fur yur girlfriend its good enough fur you”. Aye the old wans ur the best ;D
Charlie it must have been about 1963-4 a think it was in the Daily Record or maybe the Times, no the London wan it wisnay that famous

[trotsky]

Maybe it was Charlie and my old man maybe told me about it because I had left Glesga in the early 70's but I was sure that it was about the time I used to go out selling the sticks with the guy who hired the horse and cart and that would be when I was about 13-14 year old so that would make it the early 60's but maybe I am wrong. Another point how did the photo get in the papers someone from the press must have been there to take it as cameras were not 10 a penny in those days, maybe it was done once then recreated another time for the guy from the press

[Waverley]

You've got me thinking now Trotsky...I officially moved to Newbank when I was about 17 and I am sure it was soon after that the photo of the horse having a beer in the daft shop was printed. I know a guy in Parkhead who keeps telling me he has the original press cutting and he keeps promising to bring it down to the Clanny for me...three years down the line and I am still waiting.

[pwm437]

Jul 25, 2007 16:32:58 GMT 1 Waverley said:

Yet another of the Cross from circa 1910.

The building we see at the corner of Gallowgate and Duke Street was built in 1902. The Watson tenement which stood at the corner of Duke Street and Westmuir Street is not yet built, and therefore this postcard was drawn/taken sometime between 1902 and 1905.

[trotsky]

The yellow sign near the top left corner, does that say Glasgow Eastern Co-operative Society, was that where it was/is now, across from Woolworths, I thought it had flats above it, maybe they wern't built then?

[Waverley]

Parkhead Cross possibly the 1950's if you look closely you will see the fountain that some of you asked about on Saturday on the Parkhead Tour.

[Deleted]

When I done a paper round I used tae pick up the papers right where that wee tower is on the pavement.

[trotsky]

The fountain had a semi circle trough thing at the bottom fur the horses to have a drink from and a wee black iron cup tied on with a chain fur the people to drink from, there was another one like it somewhere else in Parkheed, I think it was maybe outside the first Tollcross Park gate along Tollcross Rd
The Parkhead x wan was next to an underground Gents and Ladies toilet which you can just make out from the photo.

[trotsky]

I thought it was Delaney that was on the corner of Westmuir St and Tollcross Rd up a close off Tollcross Rd and Greens was up a close next to the clock. Remember lying back in the chair as butcher Green pulled my tooth and was able to look over to where the tower and the toilets were, can still put my tongue into the gap where the tooth was

[Waverley]

Feb 10, 2009 20:43:23 GMT 1 patrick said:

clansman was john blake still selling the paper,s when you were, or dont you know him, he had a younger brother called wullie who also sold paper,s at the cross?

Patrick I am sure John Blake stayed in 69 Whitby Street up until he died a couple of years ago...

[Waverley]

Jun 18, 2009 21:43:05 GMT 1 bettyb said:

I have this Painting as my Wallpaper on my Comp glesca artist just love it,the wee Woman in the green coat and the wee Boy put me in mind of my Mum and Son,so it takes me right back.

bettyb

I have plate number 1/250 of the painting by the original artist on my living room wall and also another one in my work along with the original plates of Bridgeton Cross by the same artist both at home and at work..

[Waverley]

Another photo of Parkhead Cross...

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Going through some pic and thought i would put together a wee collage of the cross,Paul

[weeshuggy]

Grand photo's of the cross, they bring backmemories me of my grandfather, born, bred and died in Parkhead.
Saturday afternoons my grandfather would be standing under the clock at the Savings Bank
(corner of Burgher St.) dressed to nines. I guess it was after the pubs closed,
if there was such an establishment in the area, or a bookies.
This was in the sixties after we had left the area, I would pass the cross on the bus
and there he would be with some of his cronies, even the clock has gone.

[patrick]

I have found a cracker, of Parkhead Cross and it looks as if there,
was a wee two story building on the corner of Burgher St before it was replaced by the existing building.

[Waverley]

Sept 30, 2013 18:39:03 GMT 1 patrick said:

I have found a cracker, of Parkhead Cross and it looks as if there,
was a wee two story building on the corner of Burgher St before it was replaced by the existing building.

I have that photo amongst my collection Patrick and it was originally was the local doctor's house.

[patrick]

[palaisgirl]

Great photo patrick.

[patrick]

thanks palaisgirl,

it looks as though the youngsters on the right hand,
side of the postcard are in their bare feet can anyone verify this?