Wine Alley

chakota1 · Wine Alley

Anyone remember the wine alley ... i was reared there from 1953 to 1962 . lived with my grandparents in Kellas street and went to Broomloan road school. moved on to Pinmore street, Nitshill from 1962 to 1971 ..... i wrote in this section because i do not know if its still there. Ilive in England now (past 37 years) so lost all touch of place. I assume bonnie gelsca has changed a bit since the 60's .

wee minx

I remember it , but I lived in Carmichael Street, and only from 1965-74, most of my pals from Copland Road school lived round there

Stuball

You'll have to fill me in on this... what is/was wine alley?

chakota1

From what i remember the wine alley was an very small estate just off the broomloan road in govan. It is supposedly famed for all the drunks and winos .. hence the name. The railway was behind it which terminated at Govan Cross. Ibrox park was about a couple of miles from there. I remember we used to go there every Sat. afternoon and get a lift over the turnstiles and we would collect the empty beer bottles and take them to the pub for cash. Happy memories

wee minx

kev

I was an apprentice in Govan shipbuilders in 1977 and remember the name ..wine alley...there was a big drinking culture at work in those days and all the guys used to go to the various pubs around Govan at dinner time...Looking back now I wonder how the f""ck anything ever got built....remember one friday morning a platers helper/labourer came into the shed totaly pissed from the night before wearing a steel toe cap boot on one foot and a brown shoe on the other and he got sacked...which was an acheivement in itself as you could get away with almost anything in there

peter kemp

I remember the Wine Alley. My old granny stayed at 79 Kellas Street. The name the place had was not as bad as it sounds. Many hard working Govanites lived there. In those days no one was well off. These days the term wine alley would apply to many of the effluent leafy burbs. My dads mother stayed in an old house in Broomie rd just behind the police st at Orkney st and just up from the Potted Heid Bank on Govan road. It was when built a very substantial mansion quite unlike the surrounding tennements of the area. In later years a company I think called Claudgen Lights had it.
From my grannys in Kellas Streets back window you looked straight across to the huge foundry of Harland and Wolff.In its time the largest glass building in Europe. Little did I know that it would be where I started my first job in the time office then the Pattern shop..

chakota1

Hi Again,

My mum and dad lived in a one roomed flat in Kintra street on the top floor and i vaguely remember the bed was in an alcove with a curtain drawn across kitchen was in same room as well .... boy can you imagine living that way today? I stayed with my grannie in kellas street for about 9 years we used to play out the back jumping the middens and climbing into the air raid shelters with the smell of sh**e all around. We used to raid the middens of the pubs for the metal bottle tops. My dad ran an ice cream shop in Kintra street and then had an ice cream van , which i used to go out with him sometimes.
And do you know what ...... these fond memories of my childhood seem to be some of the greatest times ever considering how we lived with no telly , mobile phone, playstation etc. you had to make your own fun , getting filthy etc and your mum giving you what for coming in covered in s**t and smelling .. lol !!

Great days ...harry