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Post by pitbull on Nov 26, 2007 20:22:29 GMT 1
my hoose was at number 59 main street in the 70s we stayed above the bakers a couple closes alang fae the H.L.I. opposite the pend.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 17, 2008 22:10:20 GMT 1
no 5 van st is where my firm was where i started as an apprentice brickie and used tae come out the back gates tae go tae the shops at duke street the firm ran right along the gallowgate to barrs depot where they parked the lorries opposite the graveyard, refractory services a big steel works that made chimneys. for blast furnaces. if ye looked over the wall into beardmores ye,d see the moulton metal bewing poured. it was amazing tae see the orange glow of the metal getting poured like a liquid. ;D
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Post by pitbull on Mar 15, 2008 0:29:32 GMT 1
where was maudslie street never heard of it?
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Post by pitbull on Jan 26, 2008 0:24:35 GMT 1
last hame hmm i think it was about 5 years ago there was a massive bagpipe competition in the glesga green, we arrived too late, to book a hotel which was aw fully booked, and i didnae want tae chap anybody up we drove to irvine and the situation was the same, my wee wife was getting irritable it was her one and only trip tae glesga , she said get me outta here, so we headed for the m74 there was a hotel right at the start of the motorway guess what , aye FULLY BOOKED so i decided thats it am going hame so on the way back we stopped in at her maws in liverpool efter going doon the dock road market then got back tae northants i was glad tae get hame, so back in glesga next time i,m booking my place before i travel like i do at the blue bonnets in dumfies at a great wee place called thornhill, anyway back tae the THREAD EH? there was a firm call refractory services at 5 van st
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Post by pitbull on Nov 27, 2007 1:25:36 GMT 1
there was dunns as in dunn and moores and barrs in the gallowgate, then tunnocks and andrew smiths slaters and plasterers in 2-20 broad street bridgeton, and gerorge boyds in fielden street. if theyve all gone now which i doubt as i still see barrs even i london shops. and theres a ltd company some people call it a fitba team in the london road ;D
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Post by pitbull on Jan 24, 2008 1:05:31 GMT 1
we the lads of the ulster special constabulary association usca marched on 11 november in whitehall, what a privelage to of taken part, we had a few comrades over from ulster and the rest from here in england different branches, and it was very spectacular a site at the royal albert hall in kensington the saturday night before. catherine jenkins was a brilliant singer. and the poppy petals near the end of the night falling from the ceiling was something to see a really moving experiance to mark the fallen, it made the hairs on your neck tingle.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 16, 2008 20:03:29 GMT 1
For nigh on 500 years the Border families continued their war against each other. Was it an Anglo=Scottish war or just an ongoing fued between Border families on both sides of Hadrian's Wall. and when anyone attacked a clan that had family both sides of the border the war cry was blue bonnets to the border ;D
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Post by pitbull on Mar 16, 2008 1:52:11 GMT 1
This is only to keep us on side ask yourself the question why NOW when republicans are in our govenment so they can show the world that they are nice to us so when the british govenment sells us out which they will no one will notice It all a bit of a joke which will jump up and bite them in the ass some day soon. aye i think so too smidy, and the prods will revolt big time, the sell outs already started like you said a long time ago.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 26, 2008 20:52:53 GMT 1
on 22nd jan 1689 an english convention parliament declared wm 3rd and mary 2nd to be joint monarchs whilst on 4th april same year,at a scots convention declared wm 2nd of scotland and mary 2nd to be joint monarchs of scotland. a jacobite uprising in scotland was quickly quelled.( more to follow)
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Post by pitbull on Dec 14, 2007 0:53:23 GMT 1
i,ve printed off a few things about oor king billy he didnae even like the scots he is said to of disliked the jacobites i,ll type the whole thing out about what was said another time probaly the weekend when i get more time.he refused to assist any scots colonists for fear of upsetting the spanish he played a major role in the collapse of the darien scheme. he actually died after a fall from a horse in 1702. (more to follow). watch this space
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Post by pitbull on Jan 9, 2008 16:51:31 GMT 1
i remember that wee badge with the abc minors on it i often wore one in the early 60s we aw used tae bomb it doon tae olympia street pichurs (pictures) and when we wur fly enough no tae get caught we,d let one person pay, and let the rest in aroon the back door in orr st , tear oor tickets in half, or try and keep last weeks ticket which wid be the wrang colour, but looked aw right in the torch light if the wummen wisnae too observant, my maw used tae work in the flicks up at the parade. and i remember they used tae stamp there feet at flash gordon easy easy and the big flicks ye aw stood furra queen.
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Post by pitbull on Mar 23, 2008 14:48:43 GMT 1
heres a wee question how would anyone know if people came back up the stairs as the final whislte went and were pushed back to cause a stumble hence the domino affect? and 3 or four minutes later no one was coming down them stairs because when me and my mate smidy looked at each other at the bottom of stairway 13 we both said where the feck is everybody there may huv been a few stragglers, but i dont recall seeing many or any and we went back up to pull the first few bodies out until the big avalanches of bodies alive and dead.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 15, 2008 21:34:38 GMT 1
it was no myth i was in the middle of this and am a first hand witness and survivor. the only myth to this story is that emergency sevices were there in minutes complete and utter rubbish we were pulling bodies out for a good while before we saw anyone official, and that was the police, maybe about 20 minutes an ambulance man arrived and he never came in from the sreet he arrived from the south side of the ground and try,d to give mouth to mouth to bodies we left on the grass verge. jimmy smith and my da, and myself there was a few others later no one knew what to do as the cops wouldnt let us back up the stairs and no one would answer there doors behind the stadium to phone for an ambulance. we looked up to the windows and i saw a woman with her hands up at her face looking up to the stairway but wouldnt answer her door.(probaly shocked) at what she saw. and these guys that wrote this book were they in the crowd pushing like hell and clambering over fences to get out, i doubt it very much. they probaly were not even there.
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Post by pitbull on Feb 16, 2008 14:42:18 GMT 1
Hi Pitbull, was it not called The Hayburn Vaults, near Partick railway station or am I talking rubbish? If that the one ,been in it several times when I lived in Scotstoun. Bye for now, Norrie am no sure norrie i used tae stay in partick for a few months before we moved back to main street and that was the local pub ;Daye and it was just before ye go under the bridge at partick near the railway yer right, ye,d be better asking me about pubs in ealing west london i drank in the aw ;D
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Post by pitbull on Feb 15, 2008 0:06:15 GMT 1
there used to be a good pub in partick called the hayburn
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Post by pitbull on Jan 24, 2008 22:09:24 GMT 1
The pub at the corner of Dunn St and Bernard St I think your talking about pitbull was called the Cosy Corner, that is where my Granda drank. aye i know adaline that was my dads local boozer and wee john mcshane owned it i remember my maw taking us doon there sitting us on the bar, giving my da, his dinner on a plate and said tae him theres yer weans and yer dinner, he ate his dinner and sent us hame ;D
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Post by pitbull on Jan 8, 2008 23:37:12 GMT 1
there was a wilsons antique or scrap shop sold bric a brac between marquis street and dunn street on the even numbers side, he also had a big scrap yard behind dunn street parralel with london road and bernard street, and that we bit called the herry ham is where my family the scotts came fae, also nuneaton steet and arrol place, my maws side came fae bernard street. and on the same side of the road as the bric a brac shop was jackie sandersons fruit and veg shop across fae that was the glenniffer pub and an indian shop canny remember whit they sold but my maw always commented that the wee indian women in there was really nice looking, when yer only 7 things like that go over yer heid. and up a wee bit nearer boden street was a laundrette, and crombies or cromwells licence grocers. and whats mcmahon at 948 thats the close we stayed up when i stayed wi my grandad, and there was the stamford bar up the road a wee bit past the wee ship stamford bar owned by wee john mcshane and he had another pub in dunn street at the corner of bernard street before that. and connettas had a chippy in london road between dunn street and marquis street , and i think they had another yin after that in mcduff street.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 pitbull on Dec 14, 2007 0:34:04 GMT 1
i remember the place but not the building on the left, around the corner on the left the cobbles huv that wee boot and ball next to each other. and to the right i think i remember an old railway arch and think there was a cooperage works around there too.
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Post by pitbull on Dec 1, 2007 23:32:54 GMT 1
i remember watching the coopers doon a wee street my da, called skaters paradise it was doon paralell wi london road ye walked doon kilpatrick street turn right towards fielden street and there was a lovely smell of whisky there and i,d watch the guys (coopers) making the barrels in the 60s and there was another wee landmark my da, showed me near the photie ye,ve got top of camlachie on the cobbles a ball and a boot in the ground at the top end of barrowfields stamford street they called it torch land camlachie was is.. the real name.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 24, 2008 22:00:05 GMT 1
i remember two cooperage works charlie, one was the top end of stamford street, go under that wee bridge there was a wee dairy shop there and under the arches ah can recall watching guys making barrels, my mate fae school watched them wi me and swore blind he was gonna be a cooper when he left school, harry turner was his name, and the other cooperage was across fae skaters paradise behind george boyds at fielden street, i used tae watch them repair the barrels and loved the smell fae the wood, that was practically behind kilpatrick street.
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Post by pitbull on Feb 24, 2008 23:14:30 GMT 1
noo theres a place i wish i,d never clapped eyes on terrys tatoost, got one of my first yins done there 1973.
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Post by pitbull on Feb 9, 2008 21:47:54 GMT 1
Jackie do you have a lair number if so send me it and I'll go and visit her grave for you and leave a wee bunch of flowers. am gonna dae whit that person dogsitter says and find out the lair number am a wee bit worried noo since i read that they ha a big collapse of ground in that cemetrty.all in do know is she,s in a family plot and no headstone and is buried between 2 airforcmen, haw waverley how many dae ye thinks dead at riddrie then seeing its so big.
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Post by pitbull on Feb 7, 2008 22:56:11 GMT 1
no dont huv a lair number thanks charlie i,ve never even been to her grave the one and only time i went ileft for my wife and my own safety because of some bam with an air rifle. though i do intend to revisit that cemetry one day in the near future. thanks olot for the offer though yer a gent.
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Post by pitbull on Nov 24, 2007 0:27:40 GMT 1
my wee maw was buried in riddrie in 1969, aged 33 mary scott nee walker. i,ve never been tae the grave we, me and my wee wife who,s a scouser went up there tae see the grave 2 years ago, tae try and locate the spot and some bam started taking potshots at us with an air rifle so i never got tae see it as we had tae scarper maybe one day eh? and in the same family graves my grandmother who also died young and my maws baby brother who was about 3 or 4.
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