shull Posted October 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 https://www.flickr.com/photos/cessna152towser/sets/72157606563916687/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted October 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 http://victoryguy.smugmug.com/McGills-Bus-Service-1980s-and/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 (edited) A couple of links to porno pix! (For a bus driver... ) Edited October 6, 2014 by bluto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iTony Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 A couple of links to porno pix! (For a bus driver... ) I like the pictures of the lassies at Rothesay - when wummin were wummin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iTony Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 My son is a huge wrestling fan so I know exactly who you mean. I would have put a capital.'R' for him. This could be misconstrued on a forum like this but wasn't he a real good looking guy too.? . I honestly didn't know who he was referring to. Is that the wrestling with that Stephanie McMann or however you spell her name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 https://www.flickr.com/photos/cessna152towser/sets/72157606563916687/ Great photos! I mentioned the McGill's Fairway Avenue bus in a post about Cockles a few months back. In that photo, second top left, is that inspector having a piss? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Great photos! I mentioned the McGill's Fairway Avenue bus in a post about Cockles a few months back. In that photo, second top left, is that inspector having a piss? In St James Street? In the middle of the day? Are you taking it...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 In St James Street? In the middle of the day? Are you taking it...? Naw. What do you think he's doing? What's in his hand? Apparently in the UK it's still legal to pee on the rear nearside wheel of a coach. The bus is in the middle of the road so how could he tell which was the nearside or offside? Maybe he didn't know his right from his left and anyway his hands were full. It does look like St.James Street. Did the buses used to sit in the middle of the road where the tram lines used to be? I think it was a sort of terminus back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted October 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) HECTOR IS OFFSIDE !!! Edited October 7, 2014 by shull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Is that not only legal for the driver? I thought it was the rear offside, but I could be wrong (for once ). I think you're right. (for once) But surely you could stretch a point for Hector? Even inspectors need to pee. A McGills bus broke down on Barrhead Road near the dam. The driver went under the bus to see what was up and the conductress, trying to be helpful, shouted to him 'Do you want a screwdriver?' The driver shouted back 'For f**k's sake,no the noo. Can you no see a'hm busy?' Oh how we laughed round Glenburn cc1959. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 They say the old one's are the best - apparently they lie. Just one question - where is this dam on Barrhead Road? I probably should have said the reservoir on Glenfield Road. Is the road to the right at the end of Glenfield Road not Barrhead Road? It's a long time since I lived there. Brown & Polson owned the whole thing I believe. They certainly owned the fishing rights and as my mother worked in Polsons I qualified for a fishing permit. Hardly ever caught a thing. Polsons stocked it regularly but then somebody caught a bloody great pike. They drained it, found I believe another couple of pike then restocked it with trout. I still caught bog all. Swam in there a few times. Ditto both Linns. Would freeze the knackers off you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Barrhead Road runs from the top of Lonend up to the top of Hawkhead Road. It's Caplethill Road you're thinking about. You might have referred to it as Barrhead Road as it went to Barrhead but it wasn't officially that. Is the Dam at the end of Glenfield Road not called Polson's Dam - I'm not a native Gleb so I could be wrong? Don't know if that is its official name or not but that is how folk refer to it. I walk the mutt up there at least every second day. I should have remembered it was Caplethill Road. We called it Polsons Dam too but officially it was Brown & Polson's. Nice to think that at least some mention of the old company is remembered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted October 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Talking about buses and getting back on track, it wid be absolutely wonderful if we won the Scottish Cup in May, and had the marvelous sight of our heroes and legends traversing round Paisley on an Open Top Bus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomsons dropped it Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Rick, I got a near three pound Brown Trout out of Polson's dam on the first day of the season in '73.....ahhhhh them were the Days. When they drained it there were loads of Pike taken out ,a load of them were hung up on thon' jaggy fence along the roadside. I used to help out at Bobby Watt's pony trekking place which was beside the Dam,one of the reasons I am so familiar with the place. That and the fact I was born at 103 Glenfield Road Now sadly demolished..........B******s !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted October 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 I got my first leather jacket from the Glenfield Market around 1973. It disnae fit presently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Rick, I got a near three pound Brown Trout out of Polson's dam on the first day of the season in '73.....ahhhhh them were the Days. When they drained it there were loads of Pike taken out ,a load of them were hung up on thon' jaggy fence along the roadside. I used to help out at Bobby Watt's pony trekking place which was beside the Dam,one of the reasons I am so familiar with the place. That and the fact I was born at 103 Glenfield Road Now sadly demolished..........B******s !!! If I ever caught a three pound brown trout I would throw a party. What a great fish. I was fishing up there until the late sixties, a few years ahead of you. I didn't realise the problem with pike was just that bad. I do vaguely remember a pony trekking place because I still visited my folks in Greenbank Drive. Glenburn was a nice place to live in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomsons dropped it Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 If I ever caught a three pound brown trout I would throw a party. What a great fish. I was fishing up there until the late sixties, a few years ahead of you. I didn't realise the problem with pike was just that bad. I do vaguely remember a pony trekking place because I still visited my folks in Greenbank Drive. Glenburn was a nice place to live in. I have nothing but good memories,especially around the time I am talking about above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomsons dropped it Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) I got my first leather jacket from the Glenfield Market around 1973. It disnae fit presently. Bought loads of stuff from the Market, it was literally a minutes walk from the hoose.Oor tenement was immediately over the wee rise as you went past the Entrance heading towards Braehead. The Market had a flag with a Ghost Logo on it. The company was called Spook Erections...http://www.spookerection.com/about_us.php Edited October 7, 2014 by thomsons dropped it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted October 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Bought loads of stuff from the Market, it was literally a minutes walk from the hoose.Oor tenement was immediately over the wee rise as you went past the Entrance heading towards Braehead. The Market had a flag with a Ghost Logo on it. The company was called Spook Erections... That reminds me, Smokie will need to send me doon more pills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3 moffat buds Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 I think you're right. (for once) But surely you could stretch a point for Hector? Even inspectors need to pee. A McGills bus broke down on Barrhead Road near the dam. The driver went under the bus to see what was up and the conductress, trying to be helpful, shouted to him 'Do you want a screwdriver?' The driver shouted back 'For f**k's sake,no the noo. Can you no see a'hm busy?' Oh how we laughed round Glenburn cc1959. Actually the best Paisley themed bus joke doing the rounds at about that time was, in my opinion anyway, this one: There was a large crowd gathered in Causeyside Street when PC Plod turned up to see what was going on. Pushing through the crowd he was surprised to see a dead goldfish lying in the middle of the road - 'Did anyone see what happened?' he asked the shocked throng. 'Aye me' a wee boy piped up 'it got run doon by the Borrheid bus'. 'He's right' said another onlooker 'when I got here it was still alive and it kept repeating 'ma gills! ma gills!' Eat your heart out Kevin Bridges, Billy Connolly, Frankie Boyle, etc, etc ...on second thoughts maybe I'll just keep quiet in future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanleySaint Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 Love this thread, like some of the others lived in Glenburn in the 70's and early 80's and it was a great place to grow up, completely different look to the place now though.....flatter for a start!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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whydowebother Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 200px-Scottish_cup.jpeg I think it would be a good idea for all of us who got our photo taken with the cup in 87' to post it in this thread Ffs I had a full head of hair last time we won it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickMcD Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 I have nothing but good memories,especially around the time I am talking about above. So when you were born I was only about 200yds. away across the railway in Greenbank Drive. Wonder what I was doing that night? Do you remember the wee swing park on Langcraigs Drive? There used to be some old building there-- it might have been part of the dye works-- and we all got real excited when they knocked it down and opened the swings. Archie lived at 45 Langcraigs Drive just up the road so we spent a lot of time there. Do you remember him living there? He didn't move away until 1967 when he signed for Preston. That swing park must have been almost outside your back door. I actually think Glenburn is more upmarket in some ways nowadays but it was a great place to grow up. I still have a walk round when I'm over and on Paddy's day last year I bloody near knackered myself walking up the Braes. I could have sworn the tenements were still there that day. I was damn near too buggered to go to Hampden. What a mistake that would have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluto Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 200px-Scottish_cup.jpegOff topic....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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