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Post by Waverley on Aug 2, 2007 7:16:27 GMT 1
The Camlachie coopers were world renowned and their name lives on in the Camlachie Cooperage in Cambuslang...there is also a cooperage operating in Shettleston Road.
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pitbull
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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 thecaltondefender on Jan 25, 2008 15:09:49 GMT 1
pitbull,there where 2 cooperages in janefield st,1 on each side of the st,1 in vinergerhill st.1 in the arches in stamford st
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Post by holywell37 on Apr 2, 2008 22:43:53 GMT 1
sannie addison owned the cooperage in biggar st, he sold it to jimmy rielly (third lanark & morton) who owned the cooperages in janefield st and stamford st.
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Post by Sandy Hills on May 15, 2008 14:25:42 GMT 1
I can remember one of the Logan family from Yate St. working in the Janefield St. place during the sixties.
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Post by holywell37 on May 15, 2008 19:03:40 GMT 1
that was john logan's older brother, sadly i think he's dead now.
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Post by Sandy Hills on May 16, 2008 14:09:21 GMT 1
Hi Holywell,I feel I should know you I was a good friend of John and lived above him at 29 Yate St.
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Post by pwm437 on May 16, 2008 17:58:07 GMT 1
I went to Camlachie Primary School with Mary Logan from Barrowfield, she may have been a relative.
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Post by holywell37 on May 16, 2008 18:14:42 GMT 1
the guy who worked in the cooperage was the older brother of mary and john, and their mother maggie worked in the reunion bar when sammy harper had it.
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Post by patrick on Feb 2, 2009 15:15:21 GMT 1
my uncle stevie thom owned the cooperage at the end of janefield st he sold it on to jimmy rielly in the 60s
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