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Post by Waverley on Nov 29, 2006 22:52:10 GMT 1
;D Originally based in the Nisbet Street Street and Salamanca Street area, built circa 1877, before moving to the present site in the Gallowgate.
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Post by pwm437 on Jun 4, 2007 9:40:15 GMT 1
Completed in 1968 to a design by Alexander McAnally with a presbytery attached.
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Post by Waverley on Dec 8, 2007 22:26:43 GMT 1
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Post by trotsky on Dec 9, 2007 16:28:49 GMT 1
Remember in the 60's the local worthies of the old Chapel at the corner of Nisbet and Salamanca Street used to knock at the doors of the Catholic families every Friday night to collect money for the building of the new Chapel. The local postman was one of these regular collectors and one day when he must have been ill, or on holiday, his stand in must have got the addresses confused as he came knocking at our door......well he wasn't sent way with a mouthful but was given a few pennies by the mother, fair enough, but when we were added to the list and they came back the next week for more money my mother firmly but politely told them we were not of that persuasion and not to call again. Wonder how much a difference our wee contribution made to its eventual build, maybe there's a brick somewhere with our name on it
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Post by asbo on Dec 9, 2007 23:32:58 GMT 1
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Post by daisy on Dec 10, 2007 12:02:46 GMT 1
I absolutely hated the priest of this parsh ,to cut a long story short,we had a sweet shop opposit the newlands school and also a fancy goods shop,one day I was taking the guards off the windows etc to open up for the day ,when 2 nuns came in,I said "morning ladies" have a wee nosey round I will be with you in a minute.When I went back into the shop I said "how can I help you" they were collecting for little sisters of the poor (or similar) I said iam sorry but I have no money on me of my own and we dont donate from the till to any specific charity(by this time there was another customer in the shop) who was horrified as me to hear the nuns ask"do you have catholic customers" I said I have customers of all faiths and she said "well you wont have any cathoklc ones next week" I laughed it off...the weekend came and as usual one of the lads from st michaels primary came in to do his usual wee job of sealing the sweet bags,then monday morning came ,and the place was quiet,non of the school kids came in,or at lunch time,this went on untill about thursday when someone decided to actually come back into the shop and tell me that the priest read our name out in Chapel not to shop with us...we lost lots of customers because of those 2 horrible nuns,,we eventually closed down.The young lads parents said he was too scared to come in as he wanted to become a priest ,and didn't want to go against what the priest told them ...if the priest and nuns had went to st michales school they would have found out that I used to hand in boxes of sweets etc for fund raising events ....we also suffered a lot of verbal abuse from some from a hibs walk going past our shop after the incident...
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Post by pwm437 on Dec 10, 2007 12:26:45 GMT 1
Not a very 'Christian' thing for the nuns or the priest to do.
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Post by Waverley on Dec 10, 2007 13:11:01 GMT 1
I have no doubt that this would've been the work of Canon Lyne who set back the ecumenical movement in Parkhead about 300 years. The very mention of his name amongst some of my pals or old ones in the Centre strikes the fear of God into some of them. Where exactly was your shop Weanie and the wee boy who wanted to be a priest wasn't Peter Sharkey was it who later became a priest and was ordained in St.Michael's...
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Post by trotsky on Dec 10, 2007 14:37:51 GMT 1
When I worked as an apprentice at Roy's the joiners in Parkhead we got a wee job to do in the Priests house next to the old Chapel in Salamanca Street. When we were in the house we open this cupboard door and loads on empty wine bottles came tumbling out, well, we were shocked to see such amount of wine bottles particularly when drinking wine in the 60's wasn't as common as it is today, and every time I see that character in Father Ted it reminds me of that priests house. The other day I was in the garage and was equally shocked to see the amount of empty wine bottles that the wife and I had drunk that had built up in the past few months since we last went to the bottle bank, so the moral of the story is don't jump to conclusions about alcohol consumption because the priests bottles could also have been built up over a period, but somehow given the rumors of the go-ings on in the priest house in Salamanca Street I doubt it.
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Post by daisy on Dec 10, 2007 14:48:45 GMT 1
I have no doubt that this would've been the work of Canon Lyne who set back the ecumenical movement in Parkhead about 300 years. The very mention of his name amongst some of my pals or old ones in the Centre strikes the fear of God into some of them. Where exactly was your shop Weanie and the wee boy who wanted to be a priest wasn't Peter Sharkey was it who later became a priest and was ordained in St.Michael's... thats the very priest Charlie,I went over and gave him laldy at the chapel house when I heard he had read my name out,but by this time the damage was done....our shop was straight opposite Newlands school,I think it became a hairdressers ,was a doubled window shop but was split to make 2 shops ,the little lads name was Craig Mathieson he lived in powfoot street I think.
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Post by adaline on Dec 10, 2007 22:46:48 GMT 1
As I was reading your post Daisy like Charlie I had no doubt in who the priest was you were speaking about. ( Canon Lyne)
My husband is catholic and we married in St Barnabus catholic church in Shettleston we brought our children up catholic as I promised the priest at that time I would and when we lived in Carntyne St Michaels' was the parish for there and when Canon Lyne found out I was non catholic he said to my husband we will sort this out and demanded she will become one of us. Well we have been married for 35 years and this was 33 years ago when that wee horrible man said this and I am still non catholic.
I don't mean to speak ill of the dead but that man rattled a few cages in his time.
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Post by asbo on Dec 11, 2007 0:30:13 GMT 1
Canon Lyne? Was he a 'Big Shot' in the church?
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Post by Isabel on Dec 11, 2007 22:52:08 GMT 1
daisy not weanie see above lol
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Post by daisy on Dec 11, 2007 23:04:01 GMT 1
Charlie obviously has you on his mind...hmmm you better keep and eye on that one lol
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Post by Isabel on Dec 11, 2007 23:11:32 GMT 1
Maybe I should daisy, maybe I'm haunting the poor man or summat lol
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Post by Waverley on Dec 11, 2007 23:35:47 GMT 1
As I was reading your post Daisy like Charlie I had no doubt in who the priest was you were speaking about. ( Canon Lyne) Adaline I could write a book about this guy and the things he done during his time in Parkhead but I would only be accused of being a Bigot...however. everything I know about him has been told to me by his very own parishioners. I could never understand why people can tow-cow to a priest or a minister...they are only mere mortals after all and despite what they preach or believe they cannot walk on water.
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Post by joanie on Dec 16, 2007 7:54:54 GMT 1
Can you tell me when Canon Lyne was at St Michaels? I dont recall the name, when I attended St Michaels Father O'Connell was the parish priest along with Fr O'Rourke. That was a terrible story Daisy, no wonder you feel like you do, I remember the fear my ma had on a Friday night when the priest would come collecting, she was battling to feed 7 kids and a man that seldom worked, but it was as tho' the world would have ended if she did'nt have money for the church, well, thats how they made you feel anyway.
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Post by trotsky on Dec 17, 2007 17:13:09 GMT 1
"Father O'Connell was the parish priest" was he a big tall bloke, seem to remember the name and him standing at the old chapel door in Nisbet street as his parishoners made their way in and out, remember there was a wee thing with holy water in it just as you went in the door, us prody kids used to dare each other to run in and dip our hands in the water.....only time we ever got a chance to have a wash
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Post by joanie on Jan 3, 2008 14:20:25 GMT 1
Father O'Connell was a huge man from what I remember, and as Irish as anything, and yes he always stood at the chapel door.
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Post by Waverley on May 30, 2011 13:48:11 GMT 1
Came across this old photo of the chapel when it was in Salamanca Street...
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Post by Waverley on May 30, 2011 19:35:53 GMT 1
Caterina this may be of some interest to you did you make your First Communion here back in 1873...!
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2011 20:04:53 GMT 1
I think I just about remember this!
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Post by Waverley on May 31, 2011 11:00:48 GMT 1
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