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Post by pitbull on Apr 20, 2008 1:49:38 GMT 1
ah,ll find out big jumbos name the mora and let ye know adaline, and the gibson brothers i knew came from london road opposite barrowfield street. betty
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Post by pitbull on Apr 16, 2008 19:18:19 GMT 1
hello wee betty gibby rings a bell if he drank in the mermaid in the early 70s i,d of known him i recall a gibby on oor supporters coach, he was a pal of wee jimmy clark and big jumbo.
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Post by pitbull on Apr 12, 2008 1:30:56 GMT 1
charlie what happened to the blue writing ye click on for the song?
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Post by pitbull on Apr 8, 2008 23:03:53 GMT 1
i just bought the badge of the 36th we cracker so it is.
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Post by pitbull on Apr 6, 2008 22:34:31 GMT 1
Hi pitbull You have mentioned Scurdy a few times and I thought I would let you know I was in his class at school, then later on him and my husband played in the same football team. I lived at 107 Main St for a short while. aye so did we stay at main street adaline funny thing scurdy got our auld house when we moved out of brigton.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 24, 2008 22:44:45 GMT 1
i remember fred west when i was at john st school he,d always be handing out fags and giving the young lads a hurl on his motorbike in 25 savoy street , my big class mate ian mackie stayed up the same close as him and always said he was awright . but i always had a gut feeling about him and would just get my loose fags fae dannys shop opposite oor school in main street, i was asked by my wife one night, wheres savoy street she was reading a true detective story in a book about murderers i nearly dropped dead maself when i realised it was fred the motorbike greaser i knew aw them years ago gave me the creeps.
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Post by pitbull on Dec 12, 2007 1:29:47 GMT 1
the bible john thing was going on at the time my wee maw died thats aw am saying jist noo.
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Post by pitbull on Dec 6, 2007 22:59:51 GMT 1
naw its ok charlie ahve deleted it, maybe am better jist shutting up. bye
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Post by pitbull on Jan 10, 2008 1:36:18 GMT 1
aye i must say dazzle that yins a cracker i,ll huv tae copy that yin doon an do maself a scroll of that yin as i do calligraphy and it wid look good up on my wall. and thanks for the words tae cod liver oil charlie, i might even dae an old english writing to that yin as well.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 24, 2008 22:56:51 GMT 1
PitBull go to the first post on here and click on the blue writing...yo hear the song. thanks for that charlie i heard it, FGAU i love the song its a different version same words always gives me a wee tingle, no surrender i play that yin in my van driving tae work and another yin about the british soldier who dived on the bomb to save the kids it was a true story, and they sang there rebel songs and cheered when he was being taked away in the ambulance begs to believe eh? and londonderry on the foyle, theres one i had on cd but lent it out and never saw the geezer again, similar song about a young soldier dying never to see his maiden city londonderry londonderry on the foyle.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 24, 2008 1:13:58 GMT 1
they made a song about this division called an englishmans command.
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Post by pitbull on Feb 19, 2008 21:47:32 GMT 1
had tae be a rangers one eh smidy
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Post by pitbull on Jan 12, 2008 15:50:59 GMT 1
we were standing at 13 that day me smidy aged 17 me 16 and my da, 35 we moved halfway up to avoid the rush as it approached fulltime i saw my mate smidy, and said hold on a minute and said the same tae my da, as i wanted to see the dying moments to see if we scored, and that probaly saved our lives, we headed to the top as the whistle went when big collie scored. and on the way out guys were shouting tae get back my feet was lifted straight aff the floor, i managed tae get to the fence and climbed over my mate smidy got thrown over by a copper, we ran down the grassy hill and it was eerie no one was coming down the stairs i was shouting for my da, and smidy , and smidy came out the other side of the fence to were i came from , we went up the stairs and the bodies must of been 10 feet high or more i remember pulling a couple guys out wi smidy, it was hard because of the weight of the bodies on a guy we were pulling out he was screaming for help,and said he couldnt feel his legs, we managed to get maybe 6 guys out and carried some down the stairs and laid them out on the grass we also ran about like headless chickens trying to get someone to phone an ambulance, my da, try,d to give mouth to mouth to a guy but i think he was already dead, so he chucked his coat over his face. we went back up a few more times and there was a massive surge of terrified and screaming some already dead bodies like an avalanche came pouring down the stairs and me and smidy had to turn and run back down the stairs for our lives ,the cops came and told us to get out the way, maybe 15 minutes later there was talk of the emergency services getting there quickly only thing i saw was maybe two policemen who where overwhelmed by the situation and helpless in the commotion, there was a trickle of cops came from the front end of the stadium but it was ages. we eventually left maybe an hour later and me and smidy walked it back to main street brigton my da, stayed in govan and went to the nearest pub , i was only up in glesga at the time visiting family and went to the match as we always went to the old firm games. when i got to my aunties house she just slapped me across the face, then cuddled me, and cry,d why did ye no phone me ,she said, i didnae huv a clue it was as bad as what it was, the telly was on with newsflashes telling the rising count of the dead, that was the worst newyears (hogmany) i can ever remember. there was a book on this situation and i can comment on it as i was the first one out of the incident and survivor, sometimes i read peoples explanations of what they so called experts say happened unless ye were there tae see what actually did happen dont comment and i mean these media punters not the folk on here, and as i said in glesgapals the surge of the people leaving pushed the ones trying to get back to celebrate the goal, back down the stairs someone tripping and they aw fell over each other on the way down, NOT THE BARRIERS COLLAPSING. the barriers got buckled by the weight of the bodies pressing against them, i was there and thats what i saw. and definately no one would of got back in to see what happened in the terraces because the stairs at gate 13 was blocked solid by dead and dying and injured people. we were watching a dvd film a couple of weeks ago called 300 spartans they stacked the bodies really high to use as a barricade, and when i saw them in that film all moving an surging forward , i said to my wife thats what it was like at ibrox when i was on that stairway.
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Post by pitbull on Mar 25, 2008 16:19:00 GMT 1
two clyde players were teachers at my school , davy, letham. and big dick, state. both cracking fellows.
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Post by pitbull on Mar 1, 2008 1:13:24 GMT 1
i was speaking to a few of the waafs at whitehall there were some proud women there and a few great characters, last year sadly we,ve all got to die and their numbers have dwindled rapidly this past few years they were right next to us at the whitehall parade before we (the ulster special constabulary association) B specials and in front of us in green blazers were the RUC in green blazers same badge as us slightly different wording, it made the hairs on the back of yer neck stand up as we marched past the cenotaph and the commander cry,d out eyes left, as we finished there was a lone piper playing his pipes, when he saw us after we fell out he played the sash on his pipes gave us a laugh.
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Post by pitbull on Feb 9, 2008 22:20:17 GMT 1
i remember walking thruough there as a wean wi my maw and da, and remember people swimming in the clyde it was said to be clean in the sixties, we had a picnic in a field near there.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 8, 2008 23:20:03 GMT 1
i read that i a book called the paddy meehan story the guy , paddy was innocent and this english guy who was a lunatic was believed to be the culprit. usually i always root for the baddy but am glad he got shot thru that letterbox that day big difference between films and real this guy watched too many gangster films.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 8, 2008 23:15:56 GMT 1
thats the hospital i was born in.
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Post by pitbull on Feb 24, 2008 23:18:20 GMT 1
aw shurrup i thought ye,s meant the buses tokens and ye knew that ya bams and if ye,s said tramcar i would of understood ye,s better so beatrit ye awright. or ah,ll be banging yer napper ya choob ;D
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Post by pitbull on Feb 23, 2008 1:42:26 GMT 1
aye yer right there adaline there was £1, 50p, 20p and 10p and 2p tokens i used tae get them tae go to school fae kirklee tae john st sec black ones reds and blues , in the early 70s
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Post by pitbull on Mar 3, 2008 0:23:36 GMT 1
he was probaly yer auld cellmate in bar-l charlie that mr wojtas, or yer time keeper at work. there was a few polish guys in my building sites were polish. an sure cherry blossom ooops i mean palais girl.... haha
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Post by pitbull on Jan 14, 2008 2:43:50 GMT 1
i know a few poles and they are all decent folk theres a big community of poles in hammersmith and they have there own centre, but whatever ye dae dont eat the food its worse than the germans.
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Post by pitbull on Mar 17, 2008 20:29:45 GMT 1
frankie am racking my brains here where was pentland place
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Post by pitbull on Mar 15, 2008 0:36:31 GMT 1
yogi was wan of the spur adaline, his name was peter mclaughlin i think, and wee rab shepherd was a spur punter think he went about wi a lassie called bell white a good looker when we were kids. rab am sure stayed in ruby street for a while his sister lizzie went around wi my wee burd at the time linda munro fae hozier street both went to john street school same time as me and calton defenders brother jimmy wee kinnie torch ya bass
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Post by pitbull on Jan 20, 2008 23:40:36 GMT 1
i knew a rab shepherd i think he had a sister lizzie who went about wi my ex burd linda munro fae hozier st shepherds when i knew them stayed at ruby st and i think rab knocked about wi yogi fae the spur a guy called mclaughlin who lost a leg and ended up dying very young maybe 14 yr old
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Post by pitbull on Jan 14, 2008 0:54:18 GMT 1
Pitbull,you're correct about the geggy being a picture house,it was in kirkpatrick street and and its real name was the premier,the last time i was in that area the building was still there. I remember now the bookery nook was on the same side as fielden street, Arty now ye mention the location of the geggy i remember it noo, my class mate davy skeoch and his wee brothers stayed in kilpatrick st and there was a pub on the corner fielden st end and my da, always said that street at the end of kilpatrick street paralell with london road was called skaters paradise, and that wee pub in kilpatrick st near the public underground toilets i was always stuck in the solripe lemonade lorry waiting for my driver to come oot the pub sloshed as usual. we guy fae castlemilk probaly well pushing up the daisies wee jimmy mcluskie.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 12, 2008 14:23:01 GMT 1
My da drank in the ship and the Toby jug. I remember the Sideline was the first pub I had a drink in. Remember the book shop but don't recall the brothers you speak about. there was a few brothers ran aboot that wee part addy, there was the ones i mentioned coopsys real name cooper, then there was the two megos, pronounced meegie, james and john murphy they had a wee sister called margaret, and there the gibsonswas the bradleys and poogie and porky graham, the gibby bros kinnies, i could go on aw night , the mcances.docherties. darrochs , rankins. to name but a few eh. arty i always heard the word geggy i thought that was a local picture hoose somewhere in the region, that book shop was opposite side of the street fae fielden street , and between dunn street and boden street.diagnally across fae the sideline pub.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 11, 2008 14:04:32 GMT 1
aye my wee maw was always doon there getting her jim reeves singles , my da, wid get his marty robbins and bought my first yin tae doon there, roger miller king of the road. there was a shop to the right as you stand in dunn st looking towards the gallowgate turn right into london road towards parkheid a book shop that used tae give ye swaps and sold american comics and combat magazines, i was never oot the place. there was 2 brothers coopsy we called them lived above the book shop always playing pranks on people, they ties a string to an auld purse and would catch aw the drunk men out everytime , they,d be chasing the purse in mid air before they realised it was on a string ;D i should know my da, was one of the drunk men. efter he came out the first half ,wee ship, or joe mcbrides sideline. i,ve just rememembered that there was a guy who used to be a partner of wullie wilsons scrappy and they had a shop or were partners in the shop a well known face around brigton and parkheid was an auld guy called packy mcfarlane, ye,d see him on the horse and cart around the area.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 7, 2008 19:55:30 GMT 1
that wee bit of london road was dangerous there was an off licence between fordneuk street and kilpatrick street called crombies i think? we were aw waiting on my wee maw coming hame one night and she was hit by a taxi would of been around the `1963 time. another bad spot was feilden street where it crossed onto dunn street at the junction before they put lights there on that part of london road a skip lorry drove right intae the bike shop,
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Post by pitbull on Apr 3, 2008 23:52:42 GMT 1
glasgow south east smidy ya dumpling ye, you,ve been in northern ireland too long. eating too many soda cakes instead of tattie scones. wish i could find that photie wi you with yer wee short troosers on round the back court in main street we,d aw get a laugh at ye wee nobbly knees. i might just see if i can dig that one out.
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