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Post by Waverley on Apr 4, 2007 11:41:46 GMT 1
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Post by Waverley on Apr 4, 2007 13:41:20 GMT 1
Naw the TV Licence crowd I think.
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Post by kiltie on Apr 5, 2007 7:26:49 GMT 1
Also known as the Scottish hide and seek champion.
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Post by pwm437 on Jun 3, 2007 22:47:04 GMT 1
Any idea of the date and address at which this unfortunate was found ?
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Post by Waverley on Jun 5, 2007 11:50:23 GMT 1
The skeleton was found in a former pawnbroker's office chimney at the corner of Queen Mary Street and London Road.
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Post by bigskin on Sept 3, 2007 16:31:24 GMT 1
at the time they thought it was a break in down the chimney.
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Post by Waverley on Dec 1, 2007 23:46:04 GMT 1
Came across this amongst my newspaper cuttings tonight...
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Post by pwm437 on Dec 2, 2007 10:10:24 GMT 1
What date on it ?
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Post by Waverley on Dec 2, 2007 10:44:58 GMT 1
No dates on the newspaper clipping Peter... I vaguely remember it happening about 1970. Why do you ask do you need it for something as you can always have a copy og my clipping.
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Post by pitbull on Dec 2, 2007 11:54:54 GMT 1
it wasnt 1970 i was still at dalmarnock school when that occurred, and john frazer was my mates uncle and my other mates stepdad, i wrote about this in glesgapals and am sure they said in the days he was found that it was a german soldier, i think the dates would be around 1965. that he was found and if he,d been in the chimney 50 years that blows the theory that he,s a german soldier right oot the watter or is it chimney ;D i think he was a burglar or he,d lost his pawn ticket and wanted his suit back oot the pawn
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Post by adaline on Dec 3, 2007 14:31:15 GMT 1
I remember the story about the man in the chimney and if I remember right they managed to guess how long he was there by the packet of cigarettes he had in his pocket as these cigs were only sold during the war.
I think it was around 1967-68 he was found.
The story back then was he was trying to break into the pawn.
mibee your right pitbull mibee he jist wanted his suit back
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Post by asbo on Dec 3, 2007 17:01:22 GMT 1
He went doon the lum wearing a smoking jaicket and ended up in a blazer! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by pitbull on Dec 6, 2007 12:59:12 GMT 1
He went doon the lum wearing a smoking jaicket and ended up in a blazer! ;D ;D ;D ;Dnow i would say thats the best answer to the guy up the chmney asbo best answer and funniest too. and eeb when yer only a wee boy still at primary ye hear aw the daft stories and by the time the chinese whisper kicks in he couldve even been adolf hiltler himself ;D but thats what memories i had that it was a german soldier and had been doon the lum at least from WW2,
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Post by asbo on Dec 6, 2007 16:39:07 GMT 1
.... and he was obviously wearing a pair of flares!
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Post by pitbull on Dec 6, 2007 18:27:48 GMT 1
.... and he was obviously wearing a pair of flares! aye asbo perfect match i think his name was hans, smoulders. ;D
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Post by flim on Dec 18, 2007 20:08:50 GMT 1
The story that I remember was he had sized up to rob the pawn through the fireplace by coming down the lum, but unfortunately for him workmen had bricked up the entrance to the firepace which he had hoped to come out of and rob the place, his remains where found when they where demolishing the building in question and the dated his remains due to the fags he had in his pocket,which where no longer in use aftera certain date..Cheers Flim
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Post by asbo on Dec 20, 2007 17:05:15 GMT 1
In Livingston's Almondvale Centre about twenty tears ago the staff in the then Woolco superstore complained of a bad smell in the building and nobody could tell where it was coming from. The drains were checked a few times and all appeared OK. However, when they went up into the overhead heating/ventilation system they found the decomposing body of a man. It is reckoned he was a would-be burglar, or even a habitual burglar who had been using a seemingly detection-free method of shop-lifting after-hours but had taken a wrong turning in the ducting and fallen down a vertical shaft and become jammed. What a way to go.
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Post by pwm437 on Dec 20, 2007 21:13:17 GMT 1
Looks like it may have been the early 70's. Check the advert on the same page (post #8) for 'Munrospun'. The kipper tie and Mexican style moustache are indicative of the early 1970's.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 6, 2008 1:44:04 GMT 1
haw smidy it was your uncle john that was that jcb driver you should be able to put a few words oan here about the chimney guy.
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Post by Waverley on Jan 25, 2008 16:15:29 GMT 1
OK folks I managed to get some info on the man in the chimney. He was found in the cimney of a building on the corner of Queen May Street and 788 London Road in mid-December 1970. Chief Superintendent James Binnie who led the investigation confirmed that the man was aged between 45 and 65. He was found with a blue pin-striped suit a flannelette shirt , braces and a belt plus a cloth cap.
He was found to have a packet of Crackshot cigarettes in his pocket which were introduced in 1916 by Glasgow tobacco company Stephen Mitchell who were later taken over by the Imperial Tobacco Company.
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Post by pwm437 on Jan 25, 2008 17:08:14 GMT 1
Well done Charlie, a wee visit tae the Mitchell should tie the whole thing up
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Post by bettyb on Jan 25, 2008 17:25:30 GMT 1
Waiting with abateing breath.
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Post by adaline on Jan 25, 2008 22:38:31 GMT 1
Thanks for solving the mystery Charlie I really didn't think it was as late as 1970.
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Post by smidy on Feb 18, 2008 14:07:36 GMT 1
You are right waverley it was 1970 and the guy that found him was called John Frazer from Fairbain st i was only but a child myself ha ha 15year old at that time just left school
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Post by pitbull on Feb 19, 2008 21:27:24 GMT 1
oh i forgot yer alot aulder than me smidy, that why ye wurnae at school ye,d left, aye i bet john got a shock that day with the jcb and the hands sticking oot, you,d remember because you got married the next year ay 16 ya headcase ye.
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Post by bettyb on Feb 19, 2008 21:39:10 GMT 1
What an awful way to go though.
bettyb
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Post by cubbyian53 on Feb 24, 2008 20:31:30 GMT 1
this was discovered in the early 70s and the time he had been there was identified by the packet of target fags found on his pocket maybe he was clairvoyant and had seen the anti smoking laws in the future and had just nippe up the lum furra fag
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Post by pitbull on Feb 29, 2008 0:42:47 GMT 1
there was an old hoose in fairbairn st we found hundreds of old white £5 notes up the chimney we were nicking the old cast fieplaces for cast iron smashing them up at 1p a pound in them days they go for hundreds now 2nd hand, a and we were getting 1/6p from the postoffice at fordneuk st for every fiver we handed in as they were aw forgeries we had hundreds of them at dalmarnock school an old mate who,s da, was a hawker doon the briggate james baird was the first one to discover aw the fivers the cops were going mental but we were too you aged 6 or 7 to be question by the old bill in them days. but not too daft tae get oor 1/6p 7and a half pence in new money for any old fivers.
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Post by patrick on Feb 8, 2009 20:23:20 GMT 1
All this time I was led to believe the guy in the chimney got chased by the 1o,clock gang, eh pitbull.
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Post by wildmacrae on Feb 14, 2009 19:24:06 GMT 1
Charlie I will ask Jim Devines dad about this as he introduced me to the guy who found the man in the lum. Willy Devine Jim's dad is a right old charicter he worked on building sites all his life. I think the guy who found him lives in Partick now.
Dan
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