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Post by patrick on Apr 5, 2009 20:31:33 GMT 1
The last time I saw junior was 15years ago, in a pub calledthe caledonian in stokenewington, we then jumped a cab down to bethnal green to another pub, wer my pal small faulds was with his wife pat murray, an john mcgee, I havent seen junior since.
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Post by brad on Apr 5, 2009 20:43:38 GMT 1
he is round about hackney my sister works in a bozzer down there still seees big pat junior and all the glasga punters now and again i still see small big davie bambridge and wee jimmy glasgow smalls still got the hayfield in dalmarnock road
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Post by patrick on Apr 6, 2009 12:43:24 GMT 1
myself and robert were in the same class at rivvie nell, and I lived 2closes away from pat on baltic st long before they were married, in the early 60s, tell pat jack said hello, shes a good woman thanks nell.
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Post by holywell37 on Apr 6, 2009 16:48:04 GMT 1
Brad, i meant lost a leg, i thought i had sent another message after right after the other one ,but i couldn't have sent it.
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Post by pitbull on Apr 6, 2009 19:21:13 GMT 1
junior mclaren was killed in london,years ago, as pitbull said. junior isnt dead
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Post by pitbull on May 12, 2009 19:24:37 GMT 1
i dont no where pit bull is getting his information but i went about wie billy Mcinness who wis the oldest of the boys they lived in fordnuek st then and he married and went to aberdeen to live where he was killed by a drunk driver billy would be about 58 if he was living today i am still friendly with wee leaf cooper and james Mchendrie old enemies now pals we still here from junior McLaren n stiil meet sandra jim and all the gang when there up here our when we go down to the big smoke by the way junior only lost one of his pegs and dont think he would be trying to rob a buffet caur maybe harrods our wan of the main shops in the west end i know what happenened but thats another story brad the last i saw wee junior in the coach and horses pub in stoke newington in 1972 he told me he couldnae walk because of the legso as the saying feckin goes from the horses mouth brad.and i went to school at bernard street when he was there with danny maitland and leaf cooper and my imformation is spot on, i,ve been in the smoke 38 years and know every body. fae brigton that moved there even the big family that took over the basinghooose pub in shoreditch.
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Post by pitbull on May 12, 2009 19:27:26 GMT 1
he is round about hackney my sister works in a bozzer down there still seees big pat junior and all the glasga punters now and again i still see small big davie bambridge and wee jimmy glasgow smalls still got the hayfield in dalmarnock road and ronnie the brother has a part in the pub i grew up wi ronnie and jimmy. and i wasnt aware that junior only lost the wan leg he told us 2 in stokenewington years ago.
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Post by patrick on May 12, 2009 23:21:50 GMT 1
jimmy is older than ronnie jack.
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Post by pitbull on May 22, 2009 20:56:30 GMT 1
aye i know patrick he was in my class at school when he stayed up my close in albany street and went to queenmary street and dalmarnock his nickname was wee evil in they days, and ronnie i knw was younger then came the baby wan kenny when they moved tae baltic street.
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Post by Waverley on May 25, 2009 9:59:31 GMT 1
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Post by pitbull on May 25, 2009 23:47:37 GMT 1
HAW BRAD I DIDNAE KNOW THERE WAS A BILLY MCINNES AS I SAID I KNOW WEE TAM AS HE,S A PAL DOON HERE IN COVENRTY AND AS FOR WEE JUNIOR THE RUMOURS ARE WHATS KNOWN FAE CHINESE WHISPERS, AND WHEN I MET HIM IN THE COACH AND HORSES IN NORTH LONDON STOKENEWINGTON HIGH ST HE GAVE THE IMPRESSION HE COULDNAE WALK NAE LEGS, PERSONALLY I JIST KNEW THE GUY AS A SCHOOL PUPIL AT BERNIE NOT A PERSONAL FRIEND SO AM JUST SAYING WHAT WE ALL GET TOLD FROM THE HORSES MOOF.
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Post by pitbull on May 25, 2009 23:48:31 GMT 1
junior mclaren was killed in london,years ago, as pitbull said. WHEREABOOT DIS IT SAY THAT HOLYWELL
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Post by pitbull on May 25, 2009 23:52:32 GMT 1
when we heard that wee junior had lost his legs, his sisters (vickie & vonnie) told me that he had seen a pram on a railway line and thought there was a baby in it, he went to save it, and got hit by a train. i must have been very gullible when i was young. SO YOU HEARD THE SAME AS ME HOLYWELL
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Post by pitbull on May 25, 2009 23:55:10 GMT 1
Brad I hope your no' calling oor Pitbull a liar...or you will be another name on a very long hit list. ;D I couldnae give a feck, and moved outta the smoke as well away fae aw the aggro. ; ;D
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Post by Waverley on Sept 1, 2009 13:15:45 GMT 1
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Post by trotsky on Sept 1, 2009 14:56:45 GMT 1
"we met up in the straw hoose,then headed down the swallygate,rab watt,andy mcinnes,tam burns.john mcfarlane,tam costello,dunky rough,john howarth,johnny&paddy kelly,andy bain,jody&jamie mcglauchlin,alan(torch ya bass) mckinlay..to name a few" God imagine turning the corner at Parkheed X and walking intay that lot coming oot of the Staw Hoose, it would be like Ground Hog Day only I'd noo be able to run that fast now tae get away frae the bad boys
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Post by Waverley on Sept 1, 2009 14:59:07 GMT 1
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Post by trotsky on Sept 1, 2009 16:07:01 GMT 1
I'll take your word fur that Charlie, good news from over Ibrox way today
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Post by pitbull on Sept 4, 2009 17:13:59 GMT 1
The last time I saw junior was 15years ago, in a pub calledthe caledonian in stokenewington, we then jumped a cab down to bethnal green to another pub, wer my pal small faulds was with his wife pat murray, an john mcgee, I havent seen junior since. wid that be the basinghouse pub at hoxton just under shoreditch past the overhead bridge patrick, i stayed in stokenewington and worked in bethnal green and met junior regularly in the coach and horses. i asked junior if he wanted a pint and he chaPPED HIS LEGS
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Post by Waverley on Sept 13, 2009 8:36:59 GMT 1
Get back to the thread lads we are talking about the Torch fae Camlachie here not the boozers and howffs of London...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 20:59:46 GMT 1
I remember going up to Camlachie Circa 1964 and the Torch stood outside a chip shop called Sids and some of the names I remember were Geordie Cooper ,John Healy,Andy Bain ,Shab mcfadyen,
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Post by Waverley on Mar 14, 2010 10:13:00 GMT 1
I remember going up to Camlachie Circa 1964 and the Torch stood outside a chip shop called Sids and some of the names I remember were Geordie Cooper ,John Healy,Andy Bain ,Shab mcfadyen, Alan Holywell on here is John Healy
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Post by thecaltondefender on Mar 15, 2010 21:41:08 GMT 1
I remember going up to Camlachie Circa 1964 and the Torch stood outside a chip shop called Sids and some of the names I remember were Geordie Cooper ,John Healy,Andy Bain ,Shab mcfadyen, andy bain( nottingham) john healy(east-end) shab mcfadyen (liverpool) we will all be meeting up again on june 5th for a 60th birthday.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2010 7:55:23 GMT 1
My sister used to go out with George Cooper and though I was a couple of years younger (I3)I used to go up the Gallowgate to Camlachie ''Tae hing aboot the chippy'' I knew Tam Burns and Dunky Rough very well in fact I drank with Tams brother Pat for years but this was after their Camlachie days when they lived in Shettleston John Healy's family moved to Torphin Crescent in Greenfield where we had also moved to and I was friendly with his sister Jeannete
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Post by thecaltondefender on Mar 16, 2010 11:30:31 GMT 1
My sister used to go out with George Cooper and though I was a couple of years younger (I3)I used to go up the Gallowgate to Camlachie ''Tae hing aboot the chippy'' I knew Tam Burns and Dunky Rough very well in fact I drank with Tams brother Pat for years but this was after their Camlachie days when they lived in Shettleston John Healy's family moved to Torphin Crescent in Greenfield where we had also moved to and I was friendly with his sister Jeannete see tam every week down at the barra"s,also meet dunky every day in tollx,tam is always down in camlachie visiting a friend of ours-alan mckinnlay,we all meet up every couple of months for an old boy"s reunion,we do a tour of east-end pubs,the patter is brilliant
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Post by Waverley on Jan 23, 2011 11:31:16 GMT 1
Haw Andy who were the Broad Street Torch when they were at hame...wee Eddy Smith mentioned them to me the other night. I have never heard of them but get the feeling you and your brothers might have been involved.
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Post by patrick on Jan 23, 2011 19:50:55 GMT 1
I'm sure somebody on here could shine a light, Charlie. ;D
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Post by thecaltondefender on Jan 25, 2011 23:31:38 GMT 1
Haw Andy who were the Broad Street Torch when they were at hame...wee Eddy Smith mentioned them to me the other night. I have never heard of them but get the feeling you and your brothers might have been involved. charlie you need to stop drinkin with that ben hur, they cum away some stotters,only ever went about camlachie,my older brother billy went about with the ben hur(brad & co),& went about the tap end,
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Post by bertibolt on Jun 18, 2011 1:46:16 GMT 1
My brother-in-laws were Paddy& Johnny Kelly (Kelso) fae Standford St we had great times wi Rab Watt , Jamie Wright, Rab connel, Joe & Frankie Wilson, Peggy& Pearl Black, wee Ray McLaren and loads of the Barrowfield mob in The Reunion. What was the name of the other 2 pubs up at the top of the Street at Camlachie
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