antrin Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 Thought Einstein would dive In first! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desperately Seeking Susans Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 16 hours ago, E=Mc2 said: Aye me auld yin. You’ll remember me. Lived at 81 George Street. Went to the West primary 59 till 65. Aye, I remember you but through your older brother, Jacky. You were much too young to pay attention to. What, five years younger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E=Mc2 Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 6 hours ago, Langbank said: Yeah me too 62 - 66. Lived Maxwellton Road. Are you that wee hefty bird that fancied me........................................? I’m available again. I’ll no play hard to get this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langbank Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 Are you that wee hefty bird that fancied me........................................? I’m available again. I’ll no play hard to get this time. 🤣 Afraid not but I really hope you find her!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E=Mc2 Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 21 minutes ago, Langbank said: Afraid not but I really hope you find her!! She bought me a present for my birthday, but was to shy to give it to me herself. I remember the teacher calling out my name and asking me to the front of the class. I didn’t know what was happening. I remember having a “I haven’t done anything wrong expression” on my face and the teacher having a “work with me here you little shit” look on her face as she proceeded to tell me, and the whole class, what a wonderful thing it was that Patrica had brought in a present for my birthday and we should all agree, especially me, that this was a lovely gesture. ”Aye...............................thanks Pat” and sat down wondering whit was that all about. I should have realised then that women will always give you small things but end wanting half your house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langbank Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 She bought me a present for my birthday, but was to shy to give it to me herself. I remember the teacher calling out my name and asking me to the front of the class. I didn’t know what was happening. I remember having a “I haven’t done anything wrong expression” on my face and the teacher having a “work with me here you little shit” look on her face as she proceeded to tell me, and the whole class, what a wonderful thing it was that Patrica had brought in a present for my birthday and we should all agree, especially me, that this was a lovely gesture. ”Aye...............................thanks Pat” and sat down wondering whit was that all about. I should have realised then that women will always give you small things but end wanting half your house. Good story !! Can’t think of any Patricias from Maxwellton rd although didn’t know anyone from the tenements between Ferguslie Walk and Thomas St. I was 10 when we moved from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 On 4/7/2019 at 12:10 PM, Eric Arthur Blair said: West End looking towards Well St from Castle St. Looking bottom left where the rather large pot plants sit, if I remember correctly was there not an underground gents toilet there, i am doubting myself given the pictures age .... but I would have put money on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desperately Seeking Susans Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 3 hours ago, jaybee said: Looking bottom left where the rather large pot plants sit, if I remember correctly was there not an underground gents toilet there, i am doubting myself given the pictures age .... but I would have put money on it. I think you're right but they could have been round the corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrappy coco Posted April 16, 2019 Report Share Posted April 16, 2019 3 hours ago, jaybee said: Looking bottom left where the rather large pot plants sit, if I remember correctly was there not an underground gents toilet there, i am doubting myself given the pictures age .... but I would have put money on it. You're spot on mate, the old westend bogs as we used to call them, they were f**kin honkin, I remember my mate's uncle always sat outside them drinking bottles of eldorado, the guy was a bit fcuked up but he was good for getting us young mob sorted with a carry oot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 17, 2019 Report Share Posted April 17, 2019 Smithhills St looking towards Old Sneddon St. My great-uncle Jack Sweeney's furniture warehouse on the right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Desperately Seeking Susans Posted April 17, 2019 Report Share Posted April 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: The end of historical beauty and the beginning of Modernist ugliness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabuddies Posted April 17, 2019 Report Share Posted April 17, 2019 (edited) On 4/16/2019 at 8:36 PM, jaybee said: Looking bottom left where the rather large pot plants sit, if I remember correctly was there not an underground gents toilet there, i am doubting myself given the pictures age .... but I would have put money on it. 21 hours ago, Desperately Seeking Susans said: I think you're right but they could have been round the corner. They were on the gushet (or should it be gusset) of Sandholes and Broomlands Street. They were the subject of many dire warnings to boys of the JNI in the late 50's and early 60's. The aroma when you walked up Sandholes on the way to the Tech block stayed with you for a long, long time. ETA: I'm sure there was drinking fountain where the phonebox is (was?). Edited April 17, 2019 by rabuddies Failing memory! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 18, 2019 Report Share Posted April 18, 2019 Great Hamilton St at the junction with Calside 1954. GH St still exists at the Neilston Rd end, it's the wee dead end at the southern end of the shops containing the Co-Op. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Rep Posted April 18, 2019 Report Share Posted April 18, 2019 22 hours ago, Desperately Seeking Susans said: The end of historical beauty and the beginning of Modernist ugliness. Fecking disgrace is was ever built in the first place, as I said before blot on the landscape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 19, 2019 Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 75-79 Greenhill Rd, 1958 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Rep Posted April 19, 2019 Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 On 4/17/2019 at 6:49 PM, Eric Arthur Blair said: Smithhills St looking towards Old Sneddon St. My great-uncle Jack Sweeney's furniture warehouse on the right. Great pics, keep them coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E=Mc2 Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 The Guardian has now joined this topic https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/dec/29/yvette-cooper-leads-call-for-town-of-culture-award-regeneration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 Some I took last night of the Abbey in the moonlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 Elderslie tram terminus. 3rd picture looking up Main Road from Linwood Toll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrappy coco Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 On 4/19/2019 at 12:12 PM, Eric Arthur Blair said: 75-79 Greenhill Rd, 1958 I had a few mates that stayed in those flats, pretty sure that's very spot of the stadiums main entrance.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 Just now, scrappy coco said: I had a few mates that stayed in those flats, pretty sure that's very spot of the stadiums main entrance.. I'm pretty sure SPS stayed in those flats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 Anyone on here go to the Abercorn in the 60s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 21 minutes ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: Anyone on here go to the Abercorn in the 60s? Naw but I used to score a bit of blaw in it in the 80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 Gilmour St I wonder why people are queuing outside the Council buildings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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