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Post by Waverley on Feb 10, 2007 14:18:41 GMT 1
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Post by lilymay on May 20, 2007 15:12:28 GMT 1
photo and copyright. by A.M.McDonald My goodness, Charlie.....so it was a jail! I remember that building so well....never been inside, mind you. The other corner(red brick building) was the Community Centre.....we learned Irish and Scottish dancing there....That wee brae is where the cobbled foot with leg kicking a ball was ..guess that`s gone also....I saw the wee park and I noticed that the Green dance hall roon the corner fae the jail are gone.....wedding receptions were held there.....
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Post by pwm437 on Jun 3, 2007 20:18:03 GMT 1
photo and copyright. by A.M.McDonald The jail stood at 976 Gallowgate and was built in 1877 to a design by the architect John Carrick, who worked for the Corpy. It was demolished in 1980, although I think it ceased being used as a cop shop in the early 1960's.
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Post by Isabel on Aug 9, 2007 15:05:49 GMT 1
I must have passed that building thousands of times as a child but I never knew it was a jail. Great info though. Thanks
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Post by Waverley on Dec 29, 2007 21:37:44 GMT 1
I took this photo back in 1977 just shortly before the building was demolished...
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Post by pwm437 on Dec 29, 2007 22:05:13 GMT 1
I took this photo back in 1977 just shortly before the building was demolished... Terrific image Charlie. Just beyond Camlachie Jail is the Camlachie Institute. This is the only photie I've ever seen of it. Tremendous.
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Post by amethyst on Aug 2, 2008 18:25:19 GMT 1
Trying to remember what the building is next to the houses at the back of the jail.
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Post by pwm437 on Aug 2, 2008 20:06:30 GMT 1
That building was Camlachie Distillery which dated from 1834. Within the works stood a villa known as Burnpoint House, which was next to the Camlachie Burn, and was the house of the distillery manager. During WW2 Polish soldiers were billeted at the distillery.
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Post by jappo on Aug 3, 2008 3:10:20 GMT 1
i think the old camlachie jail was used by the old street gas lamp lighter mob. i remember when my mates and i used to sneak round the back of the building,and climb up the barred windows to watch the lampies play snooker. this would be about mid to late fifties. cheers. jappo.
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Post by holywell37 on Aug 3, 2008 18:09:14 GMT 1
the lamplighters were still there in the sixties and then in the seventies it was a printers, motifs on t shirts and that sort of thing.
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Post by Waverley on Aug 3, 2008 18:25:52 GMT 1
the lamplighters were still there in the sixties and then in the seventies it was a printers, motifs on t shirts and that sort of thing. John I am sure that it was also used as some kind of electoral office for the SNP in the early 1970's or was I just getting mixed up with the printers that you mentioned,
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Post by Waverley on Jan 16, 2009 21:28:14 GMT 1
Here is another wee belter from yesteryear showing the Croft , the gaol , the Institute and the auld bridge at Camlachie.
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Post by pwm437 on Jan 17, 2009 10:50:35 GMT 1
Charlie, Wherr did ye get that wan its an absolute CORKER.
Looking at it, ah felt ah wis cumin' up the Gallowgate oan a 62 bus
Keep searching big man
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Post by holywell37 on Jan 18, 2009 13:58:28 GMT 1
It was the camlachie community centre, but it was originally the camlachie institute.
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Post by amethyst on Jan 18, 2009 22:02:22 GMT 1
My god,WHAT A POSTCARD PHOTO Charlie!! LOVE IT!!!! Oh such WONDERFUL times,this postcard brings. i remember many times in all the different places on the photo; Learning to do Scottish country dancing with someone that I think you might remember holywell37 Jim Lamb ;-) can you imagine him doing country dancing at the community centre,but this he did John for me .-) The swing park where we spent many happy hours,my darling mother,aunt,and my wee sister Yvonne. The football and leg in the paving stones,the old jail that frightened me,the hall next to it for jumble sales,and baby prizes for the most lovely one.!Every baby is the that SPECIAL one) the Camlachie bridge. the wee fruit shop under the bridge where i bought my frozen jubilles. and last but not least the iron railings that I hung on to from Fielden street at the gents toilets ,I would start there to the old jail hanging on like grim death. I am afraid of heights and i would do this everyime not looking down i went to my mum and dads and visited my grandmother. our grandmother Charlie.
Thank you for that photo,a REAL TREASURE
Amethyst
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Post by holywell37 on Jan 19, 2009 17:09:15 GMT 1
I remember jim lamb, patsy, alas he's dead now.
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Post by amethyst on Jan 19, 2009 20:26:51 GMT 1
Yes,I knew that John.I was so sad to learn that from my mum. We had been great friends.
Patsy.
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Post by jimmystirling on Feb 21, 2009 0:26:51 GMT 1
The photo,s bring back a lot of memories,great stuff Charlie
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