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norrie · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject:

Hi cybers, I worked as a Concierge in Gorbals, even we were beaten to the luckies by the punters

Having said that we did pick up pefectly good fridge freezers for our office now and then, if your not fast you are last

How I remember luck didgies when I was a boy in Springburn.
Funny how we never caught any life threatning diseases.
Bye for now ,norrie
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cybers · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:23 am Post subject:

Norrie i think the reason we never caught anything is because we were never obsessed with hygiene on the sort of levels we have today. That and an overdose of playing outside.

How many of us when the summer hols came as soon as we were awake were pulling at the door wanting out rain hail or shine and ya big beauty if it was a violent thunderstorm hiding in the close watching the lightning.

We played all day hide and seek, lucky middens,Kick the Kan, football.
Sweets were dropped with the god kissed it devil missed it rhyme and we went home for our bath...and schools had pink carbolic soap and the nit nurse (Bitch)

Now Tarquin and little Kylie are sprayed with Dettol washed with scented liquid soaps bathed before leaving the house and bathed upon return no outside playing in the fresh air and off school sick all the time.

Who suffered .. us or them ?
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Alex Glass · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:20 am Post subject:

Ah! The memories Cybers.

It was great growing up in Glasgow and full of adventures.

Living in Cowcaddens during the slum clearances we had lots of empty houses to explore and see if anyone had left anything valuable behind when they moved to their new homes out in the peripheral estates. When we moved there was always the seasonal adventures which took place at the same time every year.
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cybers · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:55 am Post subject:

Think the reasons we have the memories Alex is we never had all these consoles... 20 years from now there will be entire forums devoted to consoles as the people on them will have no clue about who they are offline never mind anything about where they live.

Back in the 70's 80's who ever got a ball for birthdays xmas or just for bieng good was king of the street and most of the street got a game .... Pals on one side usually sworn enemies on the other and we all played from dawn to dusk .... the famous 10-21er

Our's were played at a neutral ground for a Barrowfield kid... Vinegarhill . Ruts and water drainage troughs an all...
Everyone wanted to be Pele or Souness or the most famous jag Alan Rough and hard stars of the day not like these pampered so called heroes of today.

Happy days

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norrie · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:05 am Post subject:

Hi alex, I was just thinking of Cowcaddens the other night, its been more or less wiped off the map and partly rebuilt, where are all the photographs of Cowcaddens st, Lyon st, Raglan st and so on.
Come on, look under your grannies bed, in the biscuit tin

Bye for now, norrie
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sputnik · Single Fish Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Posts: 195

cybers,talking about someone on the street having a football.do you recall every now and then the ball would be egg shaped after lying near a coal fire in the house.you still used it as it was better than no ball.

Alex Glass · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:00 pm Post subject:

Spot on Sputnik

Remember them days well. It also happened if you sat on it for too long.

Norrie

I have posted a couple of family photos before. There would have been more but as they were family photos I didn't want to get into trouble from my big brothers and sisters.
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Scary · Deep fried Mars bar Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 1024

Brilliant memories there guys

Another memory is when we would heat a knife on the gas cooker to mould a burst ba` then get pelters for stinking the house out

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Alex Glass · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:22 am Post subject:

So true Scary

Better get back on topic

Hutchesontown about 1970

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