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Post by Waverley on Jun 10, 2012 11:58:12 GMT 1
Some of you may know of this site. Whilst I post on it now and then with photos of Parkhead People Past and Present be warned it is mainly younger members of the Parkhead community who post on it and their langauge to say the least can be a wee bit colourful... They also have a tendency to plunder a lot of copyright stuff from other sites i.e. our Riverside board so please be aware of this before you copy anything from it and post it on here. I happened to be with a few of them last night and the topic of this board and their board and other east end boards were mentioned and they were all of the opinion 'Aye, your and your cronies write about how much ye aw luv Parkheid, but how many of you actually live here'? I said they were being unfair, especially in regards myself and the Keelies board, but they were convinced that all the east end boards were a shower of egoistic cliques who were only interested in self-promotion and would 'grass' them to Facebook if they dared use 'wan of your minging photies off of your sites'. Needless to say we begged to differ re the rights and wrongs of copyright issues...my outlook on it now is simple, if you don't want it copied don't put it on the internet. So everybody you have been warned don't put anything on here which you don't want copied...hopefully the new web-site will lower the chances of this being done in future. Mind you some of the photos of the Parkheid characters from the 70's and 80's are funny and amusing to say the least and I still have many in reserve to post on there. ;D
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Post by trotsky on Jun 10, 2012 15:15:32 GMT 1
Hello Charlie, interesting what you say about the PP site and the younger wans, I’ve been looking in on the site since you mentioned it on here ages ago but it seems to made up of people from a couple of areas of Parkeed that post and put up photos. It’s not a criticism of the site but I’ve never once seen or heard any mention of anybody I would have known from my twenty years in the place in the 50’s – 60’s, but maybe that’s because I hung about in ma wee bit of Parkheed around Salamanca Street and the Cross so wouldn’t have come into contact with any of them, or maybe they weren’t born yet when I was hanging about the closes ;D
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Post by palaisgirl on Jun 10, 2012 16:53:53 GMT 1
Like you, trotsky, I have been in this site, but, apart from Charlie, there is only one person on it that I recognize. It does seem to be a rather younger generation than ourselves, so their input hasn't stirred any memories that I can remember.
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Post by Waverley on Jun 10, 2012 17:53:48 GMT 1
Yes Trotsky and Palaisgirl it is mainly made up of younger ones from Parkhead the majority of whom are in their 30's or even younger. Exactly Carol that is what one or two of them said last night 'the Glesga Keelies board and the other east end boards are made up of aulder people and do not give credit to the younger ones of the area who also have a history which should be recorded'...Trotsky when I first saw it I said and wrote on it 'Feck sake the Rebels have their own web-site'... ;D
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Post by trotsky on Jun 10, 2012 22:24:25 GMT 1
Yes it does seem like the Rebels have their own web-site on PP. They made my life a misery when me and ma pals had tae walk home frae Rivvy when the school finished at 4.00 and had to walk past the lights up tae the real Parkheed, the amount of times we had tae leg it when they were hanging about ;D If as you say the PP is “mainly made up of younger ones from Parkhead the majority of whom are in their 30's or even younger. The Glesga Keelies board and the other east end boards are made up of aulder people and do not give credit to the younger ones of the area who also have a history which should be recorded” Interesting wee bit of sociology Carol and Charlie. We have our own take on things with our own memories but so have others younger wans with their own memories about Parkheed. Imagine being brought up in the area when every time the Forge was mentioned people thought you were talking about a shopping center ;D But we also need tae remember that a good few years before us auld yins people would have thought about Parkheed as green fields and some coal mines
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Post by Waverley on Jun 11, 2012 20:08:07 GMT 1
had to walk past the lights up tae the real Parkheed, Well if it is the real Parkheid as you say Trotsky where was the Park that it was the head of...we know where the original name of Westmuir and Little Hill of Tollcross derive from...but there is no definitive description of where the Park was... Interesting wee bit of sociology Carol and Charlie. We have our own take on things with our own memories but so have others younger wans with their own memories about Parkheed. Imagine being brought up in the area when every time the Forge was mentioned people thought you were talking about a shopping center ;D But we also need tae remember that a good few years before us auld yins people would have thought about Parkheed as green fields and some coal mines Interestingly enough I had a conversation with my three kids several months ago and they had great conversations about their memories of growing up in Parkheid in the 1980's and 90's. They spoke about many things that we in our 50's and 60's talk about on here like the railway in Whitby Street, Helenvale Flats, the Clyde, Belvidere Hospital , the Beattock, the Rebels, the Wee Men, Janey, and many other things that we done as children only the time factor has changed...but the mad families and crazy wummen are still there.
I walk up the London Road every night and relive my childhood but I am gaining knew memories as I watch how things are being rebuilt and those special characters that only Parkhead and surrounding districts can create and how they come into my life on a daily basis. Maybe we are guilty of reminiscing and remembering the past and the history without realising that what we are witnessing in the present is tomorrow's history. We have to ask ourselves are we writing the story of the people or merely recording and photographing the buildings , factories and other dwellings. Buildings are mere bricks and mortar and can be replaced by better and more liveable dwellings but people can never be replaced and that is what social history is all about.
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Post by trotsky on Jun 12, 2012 10:35:30 GMT 1
Very philosophical Charlie I believe that although we have shared collective memories of what we see and experience around us at the time we also have our own individual experiences that help form our view of the world past present and future. Parkeed for me, based on my experience at the time, was an area that ran down from the Parkeed Cross to the White gates and from the Cross again it was down Westmuir Street to the end of Parkhead School where Jacks the furniture shop was. Needless to say the connecting Street where my wee world existed was Salamanca Street, but not as it exists today. Everyplace else in Parkheed was inhibited by strange people who you saw in the school playground and at 4.00 o’clock they disappeared back to their own familiar surroundings. So for me the Springfield lights people, the Crail Street people the Quarryknow people etc could have been from another world, and the wan’s frae Shettlstone, Baltic Street, Calton etc, well that’s another story ;D
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Post by Waverley on Jun 12, 2012 19:02:46 GMT 1
Ach well Trotsky all I would say is get up on a soap-box on a Saturday morning at the cross and see how long you last by telling the wans from the lights they are not from Parkhead...about two minutes before you were strung up from the ballisade below Green's the Dentist windows.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2012 21:46:18 GMT 1
Ach well Trotsky all I would say is get up on a soap-box on a Saturday morning at the cross and see how long you last by telling the wans from the lights they are not from Parkhead...about two minutes before you were strung up from the ballisade below Green's the Dentist windows. Hear hear Charlie, as far as I'm concerned I'm from Parkhead, Springfield Road just past the lights going towards the Wireworks!
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Post by Beth on Jun 13, 2012 22:21:09 GMT 1
I used to go to Green's the dentist. he used to wear a Ben Casey coat and it ALWAYS had blood on it. I was terrified
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Post by adaline on Jun 14, 2012 20:26:58 GMT 1
The Scabby Lawn in Tollcross Rd did that come under Parkhead?
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Post by amethyst on Jun 17, 2012 14:31:44 GMT 1
Hi Trotsky, Interesting what you said about the younger generation that lives at Parkhead of today,and how they seee Parkhead in their daily life. I am hungry to hear what they like,dislike,and are they happy today living there,and does us oldies that say what our Parkhead was for us when when we were young,hold a place in their hearts to hear ,or well everyone lives with their time and memories,such is life.
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Post by Waverley on Jun 17, 2012 14:35:49 GMT 1
The Scabby Lawn in Tollcross Rd did that come under Parkhead? Adaline Of course it did but some people in nearby Tollcross Road preferred to say that they lived in Tollcross rather than Parkhead...including my young sister who lived in Maukinfauld Road.
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Post by amethyst on Jun 17, 2012 14:43:30 GMT 1
I think that an address can make you feel important,or not........for some.........:-(
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Post by adaline on Jun 17, 2012 21:34:44 GMT 1
The Scabby Lawn in Tollcross Rd did that come under Parkhead? Adaline Of course it did but some people in nearby Tollcross Road preferred to say that they lived in Tollcross rather than Parkhead...including my young sister who lived in Maukinfauld Road. As I have said before my Mammy came from the Scabby Lawn and I have always said my Daddy came fae Brigton and my Mammy fae Parkhead, just way reading the posts I wasn't sure if it was Parkhead or no. My Mammy never said she lived in Tollcross but she used to say she lived in Tollcross Rd facing the depot. Adaline
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Post by bettyb on Jun 27, 2012 1:05:07 GMT 1
Adalaine, I lived at the opposite side from the Depot we had the railway between us just at the Bridge on Canmore St
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Post by adaline on Jun 27, 2012 18:09:25 GMT 1
Betty, my mammy grew up in Tollcross Rd she was born in Ayr 1926 I don't know when she came to Parkhead although I know that is where she went to school first St Michael's primary then St Mark's secondary she lived there up until her and my daddy married in 1949.
Adaline
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