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norrie · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject:

Hi strepadair, your photos have been a delight to all of us.
I know I have enjoyed the ones from Gorbals best of all.
Look forward to your next topic.
Bye for now norrie

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Riverside Boy · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:04 am Post subject: Gallowgate building

The building was in the Gallowgate between Society Street and Invernairn Street and directly facing Janefield Cemetery. The building had only one close entry to the front on the far right the second close could only be entered from the entry in the back court. The swing park is long gone and the building on the right was the offices of Twaddle the Plumbers before being taken over by Hunter & Clark whose yards now cover the whole area.

Riverside Boy · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:08 am Post subject:

HollowHorn · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:18 pm Post subject:

Did you meet any of the other guys in the photo?
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Riverside Boy · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject: The last of the summer wine...

Sadly not that I could remember. Wee Bertie was just one of those guys who was never 'oot yer face in the Sarry'...but a laugh all the same. Mind you Big Angus would try and move him on if he thought he was bothering you, Nevertheless we were all young and mad with it after playing fitba and slipping glasses of 'white tornado' into each others pints of 'chammy' and got absolutely rat arsed into the bargain. Wee Berie used to do a Jimmy Cagney routine but we used to say 'ur you suppossed to be George Raft'. A great wee character and I have to say it was a pleasure to meet him...mind you we called him the 'Gallowgate Yankee'.

streapadair · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject:

Superb, RB, thanks. I'll put your info in the caption, if that's ok.

You've put it between Society and Invernairn. Norrie's been in touch with a woman who remembers playing on the swings, and she puts it between Holywell St and the cemetery gates. Any chance you could pinpoint the block on this map, there's a couple of vacant bits where a swingpark could be.

Bertie Alphonsus sounds like a great character, wish I'd spent a bit more time with him.

Riverside Boy · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:55 am Post subject: Gallowgate swingpark...

Difficult to pinpoint it on the map shown...I'll have to look a 1960's map to be certain. I know exactly where it was if I was to go down there today and it was definitely on the north side of the Gallowgate between Society Street and Invernairn Street. I used to play in it regularly when visiting my relatives in 1313 Gallowgate which was further along he Gallowgate directly facing Barrs,

Riverside Boy · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:04 am Post subject:

Looking at it again I would say it is where the first question mark is...if you look closely you will seen on the map how a close is marked in the building next to it and no close entry marked on the close next to it which would back up what I said about there being only one close entry in the two close building.

Riverside Boy · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject:

Taken from roughly the same spot...note the buildings at the back which are now the offices of Hunter & Clark looking east towards the Cross at Parkhead.

Looking west down the Gallowgate.

Riverside Boy · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject:

According to my wee pal Peter Mortimer a Camlachie historian the information he has is as follows...in regards to the map shown.

Left to right

Tenements 1111 to 1113 Gallowgate

Playground

1141 Gallowgate = Hartshead Works (McCrae & Drew's) hair works