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Post by pwm437 on Jul 7, 2007 10:14:03 GMT 1
Runs from 1 Tollcross Road to Shettleston Road and is named after part of Shettleston, which was divides into three seperate parts : Eastmuir, Middle Quarter and Westmuir.
At number 270 stood an oil and tallow works, built around 1909 for Cardno & Co., oil refiners. Later became the premises of D. Willox Ltd., chemical manufacturers.
At number 79 stands Parkhead Congregational Church, built in 1879 to a design by Robert Baldie
At number 135 stands Parkhead Public School, built in 1879 to a design by Hugh MacLure.
At number 110 stood Parkhead East Church, now demolished.
Numbers 181 to 201 were previously known as Sebastopol Terrace, and named after the city of the same name in the Crimea.
Number 156 was previously known as Anderson Place.
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Post by trotsky on Aug 11, 2007 16:05:24 GMT 1
The 131 tenement close next to the janitors house attached to Parkhead Public School had a funeral undertakers, next close towards the cross had a wee hardware shop and on the corner with Nisbet Street a pub known as Wards. Across from this tenement was a Church of Scotland Church and a row of shops which included John Colliers the taylors, a cloths shop and a fruit shop. Futher down Westmuir Street was Margarets the newsagents, Keens the buthchers and Blanies the bakers. Further down was a pub then a rag and bone yard known as Barnies, then the Co-op grocers, then the Co-op funeral undertakers then Crail Street.
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Post by pwm437 on Aug 12, 2007 10:13:55 GMT 1
Thanks Trotsky, that's the sort of stuff we want to see. People will have a link to the above.
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Post by kiltie on Aug 31, 2007 6:55:27 GMT 1
the name of the pub was/is? timothy o'kanes
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Post by pwm437 on Aug 31, 2007 12:24:51 GMT 1
I seem to recollect a shop selling menswear called Minsters, which I think was on Westmuir Street at Backcauseway. Am I correct or is it just my ever fading mind playing tricks ?
Can anyone confirm. ??
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Post by pwm437 on Aug 31, 2007 12:27:28 GMT 1
Should also have mentioned Green's the bakers at the corner of Crail Street, whose rolls were delightful, epescially around 9.30 at night.
I was in there the night they closed, and a guy was in taking photographs, wish I'd done the same.
Any snaps out there of that last sad night in the bakers shop. ??
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Post by trotsky on Aug 31, 2007 13:45:03 GMT 1
My bedroom window was directly across from John Colliers and many a night the alarm would go off, I would jump out of bed and peek out the curtains to see guys from the Border running away with a dummy with a suit on that they had lifted out of the broken window, they would all be singing, "John Collier, John Collier the window to watch" from the advert jingle. Next day wan of them would be walking past the boarded up window with the suit on, never did find out what they did with the dummy(s) Greens the bakers, my dad would bring in the fresh roles in the morning when he came off the night shift at the Forge, he would call in at Keans the butchers on the way for the square sausages and that would be our breakfast before heading of to school.
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Post by Waverley on Aug 31, 2007 20:33:33 GMT 1
Whit was the name of the wee Jew-boy's clothes store down facing Crail Street was it Jack's or something like that...
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Post by trotsky on Sept 3, 2007 9:22:51 GMT 1
There was a Jacks opposite Crail Street at the corner opposite Parkhead School, Ravel Row I think it was called, Jacks sold furniture."Jew Boy", this is the East End of Glasgow, not London!!
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Post by Waverley on Sept 3, 2007 21:38:37 GMT 1
Only a figure of speech Trotsky I could've used my pals description which is a lot more colourful than mine...no offence meant I write the way I speak.
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Post by tammccann on Nov 16, 2009 22:34:24 GMT 1
In 1860 the was the Stonecradle coal pit in Westmuir st, also three wells and a Bowling green at the rear of westmuir st and Great Eastern rd
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Post by trotsky on Nov 18, 2009 17:08:06 GMT 1
Did there not used to be a bowling green next to the ABC cinema on Tollcross Rd behind the Bowlers rest pub, maybe there is a connection that goes back to the wan in 1860. Where were the three wells?
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Post by tammccann on Nov 18, 2009 18:39:33 GMT 1
Trotsky i think it must be the same bowling green, i wonder if thats two of the wells at the top of the bowling green, theres another just of the map at the back of Westmuir st, think peter might need to help out here This maps from 1857
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Post by tammccann on Nov 18, 2009 18:41:05 GMT 1
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Post by palaisgirl on Nov 18, 2009 18:52:34 GMT 1
Great link Tam and some great pictures
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Post by trotsky on Nov 19, 2009 12:56:51 GMT 1
Interesting stuff Tam where does it say about where the wells were. I bet one was at the X because there used to be a well and trough thing for watering the horses. When they mention Gushet?? at the X was that not at the Shettleston end of Westmuir St, gushet sounds like it's connected to water so maybe thare was the one at the X and another at the other end of Westmuir St, if so, where was the third
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Post by patrick on Nov 19, 2009 17:08:18 GMT 1
there was also a pub called the gushet. going down westmuir st towards shettleston just past crail st, there was a fish shop it sold the best special fish supper ever, further down just after quarrynowe st the first close was were my aunt and uncle lived ground floor on the left, 2room and kitchen they owned it. still going there was the doctors manson and beveridge,there was also a butchers, then you had a gap were some buildings were knocked down some more closes and on the corner of westmuir st and caroline st there was a shop, I think the gushet pub was on tolcross road but i am not 100per-cent sure.
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Post by Waverley on Nov 19, 2009 17:27:11 GMT 1
A gushet is a fork in the road where two main roads split just like a sheddens.
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Post by trotsky on Nov 19, 2009 18:27:58 GMT 1
So it's no water guing oot, never mind bang goes that theory, but where were the wells? Patrick don't recall a pub further along Westmuir St on the right, I thought Wards (or was it little Wartons?) which was on the left as you go towards Shettleston was the last pub before you got to Tiger land. I think your more accurate when you say the gushet pub was on Tolcross Road, was it the one opposite the park gates? There was also a barbers called John's at the corner of Caroline St just up from the Doctors surgery
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Post by patrick on Nov 19, 2009 20:42:34 GMT 1
the anchorage bar was the last pub down westmuir st on the left trotsky, and o'kanes was the last one down on the right, the one across from the park gates between the cafe and the old post office was called the charter bar.
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Post by tammccann on Nov 19, 2009 21:24:50 GMT 1
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Post by tammccann on Nov 19, 2009 22:07:49 GMT 1
I see on the map there was a comb works , i take it this was combs for weaving As Parkhead was a weavers village before the coal pits opened And not the kind to keep charlies feather cut lookin good.
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Post by trotsky on Nov 20, 2009 10:08:38 GMT 1
"also a well at Hart st at Westmuir" Tam, maybe the reason there was a lot of flooding when we had heavy rain there was because of the well
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Post by tammccann on Jan 7, 2010 22:18:00 GMT 1
Advert for Cluade Alexanders
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Post by Gibbsy on Jan 7, 2010 22:30:16 GMT 1
Advert for Cluade Alexanders Tam, I dont remember Claude Alexander's on Westmuir street. Where were they situated... in relation to say the old Woolworths??
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Post by tammccann on Jan 7, 2010 23:17:05 GMT 1
It was on the other side Billy, just past Sorby st ,
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Post by jawbox on Jan 8, 2010 8:25:58 GMT 1
You have just reminded me of my Mother's boss Eddie Moscardini - he ran a hardware store in East Kilbirde, he was a lovely bloke of Italian descent and had a bit of a prominent nose. After his mother died he asked my uncle Dougie to paint a copy of Salvador Dali's famous painting of Christ of St John on the Cross, which he did. He bought it as a tribute to his monther and I believe it still hangs in the Catholic Church in East Kilbride to this day (The church that looks like Fort Knox). Anyway, one day a very disgruntled customer came into the shop demanding his money back which Eddie refused because the goods had been used and it was the customer's misuse that had caused the fault. After a lot of remonstration between the two, the customer walked out in disgust saying "Aw you effin jew boys are the same!!" Eddie of course and the other assistants in the shop had a good laugh at that. Whit was the name of the wee Jew-boy's clothes store down facing Crail Street was it Jack's or something like that...
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Post by trotsky on Jan 8, 2010 12:21:34 GMT 1
It was on the other side Billy, just past Sorby st , There was a tailor shop just across from my bedroom window in Westmuir St, it was in between the Church at the corner of Sorby St and the tenement across from Parkheed School that is still there standing now, there was also a cloths shop selling denims and shirts on its left and Templeton's grocers to the right but I thought the tailors was called John Colliers. The reason I am thinking this is that I seem to remember that they used to have an advert on the telly with a wee ditty that went "John Colliers, John Colliers, the window to watch" and every so often some of the Border guys walking down from the X to Crail St would put and brick through the window and walk away with a new suit singing "John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch, witnessed by me from my bedroom winday ;D So where was Claude Alexander
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Post by tammccann on Jan 8, 2010 17:03:26 GMT 1
trotsky It seems they where the same shop ,As Prices Tailors Trading under John Colliers bought the Claude Alexander chain in 1953 , This advert is from 1933
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Post by trotsky on Jan 8, 2010 20:18:51 GMT 1
That explains it Tam, by the way, wis it you a saw wan night running doon Westmuir St carrying a tailors dummy way a three piece suit on it ;D
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