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Post by Waverley on May 4, 2016 19:58:49 GMT 1
Ok guys and gals I was just thinking if you are not doing anything on Sunday afternoon perhaps some of you auld Glesga Keelies would like to join me and my pal Campbell in the Black Bull in Camslang. Are you up for it Andy...Campbell was in the same game as you and I am sure you would have plenty in common.
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Post by Waverley on Mar 22, 2016 12:48:18 GMT 1
Seemingly there used to be a butchers come offal shop at the back of the premises and the building derived its nick name from there.
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Post by Waverley on Feb 9, 2016 10:05:44 GMT 1
Hi there Waverley I have been looking for a site/forum on the Bridgeton Waverley team for a while now as I have from the 1924-25 season a Consolation Cup winners medal with the name D.Scott engraved on it.The medal was given to me by my late father who told me many times that my grandfather {also John McKay} was involved with the club in the 1920,s and possibly earlier {sorry not got actual dates} My grandparents where both from Bridgeton and lived in Boden Street after they married right up till the 1960,s. I don't know how my grandfather came to have the medal but it was given to me when my dad passed away. Im not great with computers so not sure how to post a couple of photos of the medal which is in really good condition. John McKay Yes it would be good to get any photo of the medal John. I am trying to get a small booklt done on the history of the Waverley so anything of interest linked to the Waverley would be of great importance to me.
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Post by Waverley on Feb 9, 2016 10:02:13 GMT 1
That would be a nice bit of information to add to the board Patti.
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Post by Waverley on Jul 27, 2015 13:11:58 GMT 1
Maybe your right Andrew. the problem is I have to try and find my original notes which I found in the Mitchell library. I cannot go and say 'there is a possibility you have it wrong' without the original paper work.
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Post by Waverley on Jul 23, 2015 9:25:27 GMT 1
On 23 July 1745, Charles Edward Stuart landed at Eriskay with a force of seven men. Charles Edward, who became known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, was on a mission to restore the Stuarts to the throne. Although his invading party was small, he soon gained the assistance of Cameron of Lochiel and with the assistance of a growing number of Highlanders, was able to raise his standard at Glenfinnan and from there, mount an attack on Edinburgh.
Charles Edward Stuart and his army went on to fight at the Battle of Prestonpans in September 1745, defeating a government army and marching further south, gathering thousands of supporters on the way. However, they would face eventual defeat at the Battle of Culloden the following year.
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Post by Waverley on Jul 23, 2015 9:05:27 GMT 1
Good morning lads and lassies. Just on the off chance that some people still log onto this site I have decided to revamp it a bit and re-launch it in some way or another. Time has been a big factor in my life in recent years and I am forever chasing my tail so to speak so I have not been able to commit myself to the site as much as I would have liked. However, there is a lot of good information on the east end on the site and it would be a pity to erase it as so many people have contributed over the years. My long term plan is still to launch the Parkhead Past-Times site if and when I can finfd the time and the patience, But for now a wee revamp of the Keelies site will be suffice.
Yours Aye!
Charlie
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Post by Waverley on Dec 30, 2014 13:19:02 GMT 1
Hello People , It has been a long time since I spoke to you all on here. I have been involved in all sorts of stuff over the last year and to be truthful I honestly feel I have taken the Keelies Board as far as I can take it. I am therefore going to transfer the Keelies to a face book page and keep this forum as a board which will deal mainly with the Highland Light Infantry aka as 'the Glesga Keelies'. I am due in hospital in the next few weeks for an operation and will be convalescing for a few weeks at home so I plan to make the change over then if all goes to plan. Until then I hope that you all have a Happy and Prosperous New Year and look forward to seeing you on the new board when it is unleashed on an unsuspecting world sometime near the end of January.
Yours Aye!
Charlie McDonald
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Post by Waverley on Dec 1, 2014 15:38:31 GMT 1
Despite a very poor turn-out the Thanksgiving Service went ahead and was very much appreciated by those in attendance. The Rev. Alison Davidge opened the Service and welcomed those who had taken the time and made the effort to attend. The Service was opened by the singing of the Hymn 'Morning Has Broken' and those in attendance decorated the Church Xmas tree with Christmas baubles that they had been allocated with on entering the Church.
In the absence of the speaker Mr.Geoge Wilson , Charlie McDonald stepped in and reflected on his time at Riverside and spoke also on the 'touchy subject' of where was Riverside originally located. Was it in Dalmarnock or was it in Parkhead...forever the diplomat Charlie informed the congregation that in order to preserve the peace it would be referred to as being in the Springbank area for the duration of the Service.
The reading from John's Gospel Chapter 3, verses 16 -21, was carried out by Irene Hartstone, aka, McGoldrick a former pupil of the school.The second hymm of the day was Give Me Oil and the organist was accompanied on guitar by the Rev. Gordon Reid, a former chaplain and teacher of the school.Mr.Reid then spoke of his days as a teacher at Riverside and also his pastorial work there during his time. Fond memories were expressed about his gospel club which were held after school hours and was that popular that the door had to be locked in order to control the attendance figures.He spoke with intense pride of his days as 'the House Master ' of Avon and also the achievements of the Rivvy Chess Club when playing in chess competitions.
In his Remembrance speech Mr.Reid remembered those pupils who had died when tragedy came to Riverside in 1954 when Robert Quigley was killed in a freak accident. There was also a mention of Thomas McRobbie a pupil of the school who was killed in the Ibrox Disaster in 1971. Also mentioned were the school teacher Ian Mason, plus two school pupils , William Greig and Jacqueline Docherty , who all perished in a mini-bus accident in the early 1970's whilst on a school outing.
The final hymn of the day was Amazing Grace followed by the Blessing by Rev. Davidge.
Seeing as it was also St.Andrew's Day the congregation sang 'Auld Land Syne' to mark the occasion.
As the organiser I would like to thank those in attendance especially the Dailly family. Lorraine Maxwell, Helen MacDuff, William Faulds , Ian Greig plus the rest of you who came along to add your support and also remember Riverside Secondary School.
One final note. It is hoped that a substantial donation will be made by the Riverside School's Out Project to the Senga Nicol Music School which operates from Calton Parkhead Church in the months to come. Watch this space for a regular update.
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Post by Waverley on Dec 1, 2014 14:56:55 GMT 1
Well folks I seem to have finally got rid of some of the things that I was committed to in recent months so hopefully we can get back to getting some form of normality back on the Glesga Keelies board. I will however say that I plan to totally revamp it and cut away a lot of the dead wood from it in order to be able to maintain it on a regular basis.
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Post by Waverley on Sept 28, 2014 20:22:34 GMT 1
For those of you who aren't on my facebook. Please note that there will be a commemorative service to mark the 30th Anniversary of the closure of Riverside Secondary School in June 1984. If you wish to attend admission will be by ticket only to apply for a ticket then contact me asap on my Riverside Secondary Schools Out Project 2014 facebook page. The service will be held on the 30th of November - St.Andrew's Day - at 2 pm in Calton Parkhead Church in Helenvale Street , Parkhead. www.facebook.com/groups/153017681417034/
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Post by Waverley on Sept 1, 2014 20:00:55 GMT 1
I have just renewed the domain name of this board for another two years. I can only apologise for my lack of commitment to the board in the last two years but as you will know doubt realise we are entering a period of time of anniversaries which have been a great part of my life since 1990 and if I miss the boat in regards to what I wish to achieve in regards to these men I will have wasted 25 years of my life and spent thousands of pounds on travel , accommodation and time for nothing. I may change the format of this board to a military board in memory of the Glesga Keelies...the nickname of the Highland Light Infantry. However, that will not be happening overnight so don't panic. I believe the format of the Keelies board has went as far as I can possibly take it and my good friend David Watson is working on a new east end history board and an entirely different style and format...but like everyone else he has other commitments and can only do what he can when he has spare time.
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Post by Waverley on Aug 12, 2014 20:16:33 GMT 1
Indeed it was a great success. Yes people can argue all they want about where Parkhead stops and ends and having outsiders using their preferred names does not help. In recent times it has been post codes being used to decide where it is...so going by that theory Celtic Park is in Bridgeton,
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Post by Waverley on Jun 25, 2014 8:10:46 GMT 1
Oh yes Sandy Hills...there are some useful people who walk the corridors of power in the City Chambers.
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Post by Waverley on Jun 18, 2014 20:47:37 GMT 1
Scotto-Britishness...
It was Scots who were the most vocal advocates of a vibrant, imperial, Protestant Great Britain,
The Union of England and Scotland, Peter Paul Reubens, c.1633 Conspicuously absent from the arguments of the ‘No’ campaign in the current pre-Referendum debate over Scottish independence has been any appeal to a shared sense of Britishness. This is perhaps hardly surprising given that recently released data from the 2011 census reveals that two thirds of Scotland’s inhabitants see themselves as Scottish only and fewer than 20 per cent as Scottish and British. This marked decline in British identity, which is shared to a lesser extent by the population of the rest of the United Kingdom, signals the obsolescence of what was a largely Scottish invention, hammered out in the aftermath of the 16th-century Reformation and the 1707 Act of Union. Scottish enthusiasm for the concept of Britishness is evident in the work of one of the first modern historians of Britain, John Major, who taught at the universities of Glasgow and St Andrews and deeply influenced the first generation of Scottish Reformers, not least John Knox. Major styled himself a ‘Scottish Briton’ and his 1521 History of Greater Britain was a passionate call for the union of Britannia. Most Scottish Protestants supported union with England to form a new strongly Protestant nation, which would resist the might and tyranny of the major Catholic powers in Europe, Spain and France. Several, like Andrew Melville, the founder of the Presbyterian church settlement, styled themselves ‘Scotto-Britons’ and advocated the full political union of England and Scotland following the Union of the Crowns in 1603 by James VI and I. A good example of the enthusiasm and expectations that the 1603 Union of the Crowns created among the Scottish reformers can be found in the tract De Unione Insulae Britannicae, written in 1605 by David Hume, a leading Presbyterian scholar in post-Reformation Scotland. He argued for the full union of England and Scotland, drawing inspiration in almost equal measure from the civic values of ancient Rome, the covenant theology of Old Testament Israel and the ideals of commonwealth and nation forged by the Protestant reformers. For him, a united Britannia, at once stronger and more varied than its component parts, would lead a Europe of small independent states against Iberian imperialism and papal pretension. In order to foster closer community ties and shared identity in the new United Kingdom, he advocated intermarriage, planting English colonies in Lochaber and the Western Isles to promote ethnic intermingling and levying steep fines on those who continued to describe themselves as Scottish or English. He also proposed a single parliament for the new United Kingdom, with regional assemblies in London, York, Lancaster and Edinburgh, drawing at least a fifth of their members from the country on the other side of the old border. The 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment further encouraged enthusiasm for Britishness north of the border, with Alexander Wedderburn and his fellow contributors to the Edinburgh Review coining the term ‘North Britain’ to describe their country. This espousal of Britishness by enlightened Scots in no sense diminished their sense of Scottishness. Rather their display of what later became known as hybrid or hyphenated identity expressed their conviction that it was as part of Britain that Scotland had its best chance of thriving and improving. In his 1992 book Devolving English Literature Robert Crawford has argued that the whole academic discipline of English literature was essentially an 18th-century Scottish invention as Scottish writing entered its ‘British’ phase, which was to reach its apogee in the work of Walter Scott. The best known product of this ‘British’ phase of Scottish literature was the song ‘Rule Britannia’, written in 1740 for a masque about Alfred the Great by James Thomson, a son of the Manse who hailed from Ednam in the Borders and studied arts and divinity at Edinburgh University. Thomson, who initially thought of following his father as a Church of Scotland minister but chose rather to pursue a literary career in London, wrote numerous poems promoting Britain as a cultural and ethnic amalgam embodying the principles of diversity in unity. Like many 18th-century Scots who took up the idea of Britishness, he did so partly to make clear that Britain included more than England. Sending an early draft of his poem, ‘Summer: A Panegyric on Britain’ to a fellow Scottish poet, he observed: ‘The English are a little vain in themselves, and their country. Britannia too includes our native country, Scotland.’ The opening line of what is often taken to be the first British novel, Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random (1748) – ‘I was born in the northern part of this United Kingdom’ – provides a further example of dual Scottish-British identity. Two towering Scots of the 20th century, both sons of the Manse deeply imbued with the muscular Christian values of Presbyterianism, made a significant and enduring contribution to the notion of Britishness. John Buchan, whose hyphenated identity was expressed in the fact that his favourite landscapes were the Scottish Borders and the Cotswolds, created in his famous ‘shockers’ a quintessentially British genre of adventure stories. John Reith almost single-handedly constructed one of the great modern institutional embodiments of Britishness, the BBC. His determination to invest royal and national occasions with quasi-religious significance earned him the sobriquet ‘Gold Microphone Pursuivant’. He also made sure that the BBC expressed Britain to itself and to the world in all its variety by establishing separate services for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions, which both opted out of the national UK output and also contributed to it their own distinctive accents and cultures. The reasons for the decline of a sense of British identity among Scots over the last 50 years or so include the ending of the British Empire, out of which they had done so well, the economic woes consequent on the collapse of traditional industries like coal mining and ship building and the erosion of Protestant identity. Ironically, that part of the United Kingdom which was once the most consciously British is now the least so. Yet occasionally this old attachment re-surfaces, as when the most recent Scottish prime minister, Gordon Brown, championed Britishness and sought to stem what seems an unstoppable tide in terms of narrower and more exclusive identities across the United Kingdom. Ian Bradley is Reader in Church History at the University of St Andrews and author of Believing in Britain: The Spiritual Identity of Britishness
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Post by Waverley on Jun 3, 2014 7:03:34 GMT 1
Well Ian I did reply to this but it seems to have went off into orbit somewhere at the moment.
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Post by Waverley on May 12, 2014 20:45:57 GMT 1
I have managed to pull together a really good collection of street scenes of the east end and the city in recent months. A wee bit reluctant to put them on here as there are plenty of folks on the internetnet who see no harm in 'plundering' other people's research and personal collections.
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Post by Waverley on Apr 23, 2014 11:48:29 GMT 1
Bought this book when I was up in Oban at the weekend. I must say I have been pleasantly surprised by some of the author's take on things especially in regards to the late Billy Fullerton leader of the Billy Boys. He does not make Fullerton out to be some kind of a anti-hero but paints a slightly different image not normally associated with the ex- Billy Boys leader...in fact he makes him out to be human. I am sure that many of the trendy leftie liberal anti-bigotry crew will be raging to learn that someone dares to dispel the normal mythical portrayal of Fullerton. Yes , he was a gang leader and involved in many anti-Catholic demonstrations but so was half of Glasgow whilst the other half was involved in anti-Protestant street gangs. I have met two older guys of the Roman Catholic persuasions who were former members of an east end street gang and they have nothing but praise for Fullerton and what he managed to achieve in regards to his involvement in the street gang culture. In fact they both paid him the ultimate Glesga compliment by saying 'Billy Fullerton...he was a good c--t'! Davies also quotes another compliment if you want to call it that from another unlikely source by none other than Percy Sillitoe, the former Police Constable of Glasgow. In his memoirs he says 'Fullerton, I must say, was never a criminal in the accepted sense of the word. He was a fighting man ,who left the thieving to others, and his only conviction was for assault'. Strange praise indeed from an unlikely source. My only complaint re the author's writings are he calls the Billy Boys the 'Billies' and the Nunny the 'Nunney' of 'Nunnies'...other than that from what I have read so far a well research and factual book.
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Post by Waverley on Apr 13, 2014 12:11:17 GMT 1
Charlie I stayed in mc duff street when you stayed in mc Beth street..if I remember correctly you collected football programmes Yes that is correct Billy I did collect programmes and still have thousands of them stuffed away in boxes...mind you all the ones of any really value were sold on e-bay a couple of years ago. What is your surname Billy ?
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Post by Waverley on Apr 7, 2014 13:23:17 GMT 1
I think it is a disgrace that the glass house in Toll cross Park has been allowed to fall into disrepair yet again and has been literally abandoned by the City Council.
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Post by Waverley on Apr 7, 2014 13:03:59 GMT 1
Was thinking you may have giving the Keelies up...good to see you back on board...by the way Linda was asking about you today... No Adaline I haven't given it up. I am involved in that many different things at the moment I have been neglecting the board but I anm working on other things in relation to it Adaline and hopefully I will be able to revamp it soon.
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Post by Waverley on Apr 2, 2014 17:15:54 GMT 1
Contrary to popular belief I haven't been kidnapped and sold to some tribe of Amazon wummen as a sex-slave in deepest Brazil. Truth is folks I never seem to have time thesedys due to the fact that I am stuck in the middle of trying to get my new place of work firmly established in the old Budhill Halls in Springboig plus numerous other things that i have been dragged into for my sins. I am still working on new stuff for the Keelies board but not wanting to put the majority of it on as there are too many 'thieves' about with no respect for copyright issues. In other words I am not spending my hard earned cash on photos and other bits of ephemera for someone to copy and paste all over the internet claiming it as theirs...once I get it in print they can do with it what they will. Heavily involved in stuff re the Great War including a wee film re Parkhead and The First World War plus several other projects. Best place to catch me thesedays is on Facebook but I will still be dropping in here now and again if only to delete most of the deadwood before we launch the new site...which I am convinced has a curse upon it!
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Post by Waverley on Apr 1, 2014 22:44:28 GMT 1
Ayette Day will be marked with a wreath laying ceremony at the Glasgow Tramways Battalion Memorial in the Riverside Museum on Sunday coming at 10.45 am with the service taking place at 11.00 am. All welcome.
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Post by Waverley on Apr 1, 2014 22:30:38 GMT 1
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Post by Waverley on Jan 23, 2014 22:18:18 GMT 1
Off to see my wee Engerlish team Watford play the mighty Manchester City in the FA Cup this weekend. Looking forward to it.
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Post by Waverley on Jan 23, 2014 22:16:23 GMT 1
Yes McGoo they can be. The thing with Slimming World they encourage you to eat but it is the way you prepare it that matters most...some of the lassies in the group have lost as much as four and a half stone. They tend to support each other and there is plenty of encourage for all even if you only lose a pound.
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Post by Waverley on Jan 22, 2014 22:55:25 GMT 1
Well Adaline 'Fatboy Slim' here has lost another three pounds this week and God knows how I done it as I had a lost weekend last Thursday, Friday , Saturday and Sunday. So next week I am going for my wee star for losing half a stone in three weeks.
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Post by Waverley on Jan 11, 2014 13:27:46 GMT 1
Just a wee note to let some of you guys in the various Somme Associations on here that I have made the initial contacts to have a memorial service in memory of the 15th (Glasgow Tramways) Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry. Hopefully it will be held at the 15th Battalion Memorial in the Riverside Transport Museum on Sunday 6th of April. I will let you know the details once they are finalised.
Because of the lack of khaki uniforms available to the men who answered Kitchener's 'Call To Arms' in September 1914 the Tramways Battalion were allowed to wear their green Glasgow Corporation Tramways uniforms until the appropriate uniforms became available...they were then christened by all and sundry, 'The Green Brigade'. Due to their heroic stance at the Battle of Ayette on the 4th April, 1918 the Tramways veterans regularly held their 'Remembrance Day' on the Sunday nearest the anniversary of the Battle of Ayette up until the period just prior to the Second World War.
I hope that there ill be at least one or two representative from the Glesga Keelies board in attendance.
Yours Aye!
Charlie McDonald
The Thistle & The Poppy Society Parkhead Somme Association Branch.
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Post by Waverley on Nov 25, 2013 18:41:13 GMT 1
I remember the JFK assassination on the Friday night but I don't remember the screening of Doctor Who on the telly the very next night although I do remember watching it. In fact I am sure that such was the response to Doctor Who they repeated the first edition the following Saturday as well...I could never get into the science and space age stuff.
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Post by Waverley on Nov 19, 2013 17:42:40 GMT 1
My God I am feeling ancient ... 50 years ago this Friday JFK was assassinated and I remember it well.
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