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Post by tammccann on Jan 8, 2010 23:23:22 GMT 1
Whit was the name of the wee Jew-boy's clothes store down facing Crail Street was it Jack's or something like that... Charlie liz thinks Jacks was a furniture shop , she stayed just down the road from it
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Post by jawbox on Jan 9, 2010 7:03:48 GMT 1
It was on the other side Billy, just past Sorby st , There was a tailor shop just across from my bedroom window in Westmuir St, it was in between the Church at the corner of Sorby St and the tenement across from Parkheed School that is still there standing now, there was also a cloths shop selling denims and shirts on its left and Templeton's grocers to the right but I thought the tailors was called John Colliers. The reason I am thinking this is that I seem to remember that they used to have an advert on the telly with a wee ditty that went "John Colliers, John Colliers, the window to watch" and every so often some of the Border guys walking down from the X to Crail St would put and brick through the window and walk away with a new suit singing "John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch, witnessed by me from my bedroom winday ;D So where was Claude Alexander Wizzit John Collier that advertised a suit for 6 - 19 and 6 or wizzat Claude Alexander? I think John Collier was also known as the 50 bob tailors years before.
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Post by Waverley on Jan 9, 2010 10:08:51 GMT 1
That explains it Tam, by the way, wis it you a saw wan night running doon Westmuir St carrying a tailors dummy way a three piece suit on it ;D I have heard numerous stories over the years about tailor's dummies being grabbed out of smashed windows in Westmuir Street. ;D However, the classic must be the opening days of the Parkhead Forge Shopping Centre when two guys I know walked right into the shop with dust coats on and walked right out the doors with a couch. They took it into the nearby Pippin Pub to seek a buyer...there were numerous people there who were prepared to buy it but the two 'salesmen' couldn't guarantee a date of delivery seeing as they were vanless. They ended up dumping it out on Duke Street where it was rescued and taken back to the shop in the Forge.
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Post by dazzle on Jun 14, 2010 11:54:16 GMT 1
there was also a pub called the gushet. going down westmuir st towards shettleston just past crail st, there was a fish shop it sold the best special fish supper ever, further down just after quarrynowe st the first close was were my aunt and uncle lived ground floor on the left, 2room and kitchen they owned it. still going there was the doctors manson and beveridge,there was also a butchers, then you had a gap were some buildings were knocked down some more closes and on the corner of westmuir st and caroline st there was a shop, I think the gushet pub was on tolcross road but i am not 100per-cent sure. Glad I came across this thread, I have been trying for a long, long time now to remember the name of our Doctor in Parkhead, it was Dr. Manson...thanks Patrick ;D We lived at 442, opposite the gushet, near Shettleston Road Was there swimming baths round the corner or am I imagining that?
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Post by lindyloo22 on Oct 4, 2010 21:15:15 GMT 1
I remember a wee chemist between sorby st and caroline st Cockburn's where everybody got their ears pierced in the back shop, except me a wis a coward ;D still don't have them pierced. We also went tae a wee Hat shop at the corner of Crail st for oor hats for the first sunday in may and easter
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Post by Waverley on Oct 5, 2010 15:35:23 GMT 1
Wish I could cut hair too Lynn. i started of as a saturday girl in the shop newt to the Granada. i was 14 years old. i met the woman that had the most gift in her fingers for hair cuts. i ADORED her her name was Mary . She married one of the Whites from Stamford Street. Amethyst Was it this shop at the Granada that you worked in Patricia...if it was ye made a right pig's ear of the wumman in the pictures hair. ;D J R Hume © 2010.
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Post by lindyloo22 on Oct 5, 2010 15:48:50 GMT 1
Wish I could cut hair too Lynn. i started of as a saturday girl in the shop newt to the Granada. i was 14 years old. i met the woman that had the most gift in her fingers for hair cuts. i ADORED her her name was Mary . She married one of the Whites from Stamford Street. Amethyst Was it this shop at the Granada that you worked in Patricia...if it was ye made a right pig's ear of the wumman in the pictures hair. ;D J R Hume © 2010. Charlie that wee wumin probably thought she wis the bee's knee's wae hur bee hive ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2010 19:51:24 GMT 1
Charlie....can I get a copy of this? I lived across the road and we used to go into the wee sweetie shop. I think it was wee tommy's
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2010 21:44:57 GMT 1
Be carefull Chas. You will have the PC Polis calling regarding the Non PC advertising bill for " Robertsons "
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Post by lindyloo22 on Oct 5, 2010 21:51:27 GMT 1
My school trench coat lapel was covered in robertson's golly badges ;D disnae make me a bad person dis it?
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Post by adaline on Oct 6, 2010 12:54:09 GMT 1
I don't recognise the buildings in the photo, was the granada to the right or left of the photo? My mammy's hair wis like that at my wedding wi wee flowers through it. ;D Adaline
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Post by lindyloo22 on Oct 6, 2010 12:58:43 GMT 1
It was the right hand side of the photo and then the wee leather goods shoap wis next door
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Post by merlot on Oct 6, 2010 16:13:05 GMT 1
Trying to get my bearings here. Is the street to the far left Salamanca Street?
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Post by patrick on Oct 6, 2010 18:57:45 GMT 1
Yes Merlot.
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Post by trotsky on Oct 13, 2010 10:15:42 GMT 1
Interesting wee photo, you can just make out the Palace Bar on the corner, forgot about the wumins hair dressers next tae the Granada, if you walked through that gap you would see a King, Queen and Duke, is that not right Patrick ;D
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Post by patrick on Oct 13, 2010 15:39:34 GMT 1
Jump to it Ian. ;D
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Post by tollcross on Apr 10, 2011 18:53:35 GMT 1
Mitchell Library © 2011. Jamie if you must put on photos from other boards please acknowledge the source otherwise I need to delete them as it causes problems for us when I try to access the Mitchell records if we are posting all their photos on this site. If any of you don't know the original source then don't post it or send it to me and I will decide if we can use it.
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Post by tollcross on Apr 18, 2011 15:49:06 GMT 1
Mitchell Library © 2011. Jamie if you must put on photos from other boards please acknowledge the source otherwise I need to delete them as it causes problems for us when I try to access the Mitchell records if we are posting all their photos on this site. If any of you don't know the original source then don't post it or send it to me and I will decide if we can use it.Think this pic above originally came from the Graham Collection Charlie, the 4 pics below i have just photographed and are taken from postcards, some of the cross and one thats a wee bit different, seems the photographer is standing in Tollcross Road looking towards the Gallowgate, also one of the Oak Bar in black & white.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2011 16:38:05 GMT 1
That's a great Postcard, its the first time I have seen a photo/postcard without the savings bank on the corner of Burgher street. This is pre 1908-09, before the bank was built, good find tollcross, thanks for sharing. Paul
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