They are always good auld days because you were young, or at your peak. Despite the poverty etc etc. We had our freedom. We enjoyed and appreciated any pleasures we got as much as kids do now with their satiating abundance. Fitba' in the street, building dens, watching guys fleeing doos, out all hours, bath on a Sunday night in a tinnie. stockings round the fire at Christmas and grateful if you got a bar of chocolate in them. Are kids any happier with their £200 mobile phone than we were with a ba' at 2/6d? I mean, you never go back in life, but between The Old Gorbals and Castlemilk, I only have fond memories of childhood yet many will pour scorn on it all.
As a R'uglen boy we would often pass through Dalmarnock and Bridgeton on our way into Glasgow, or when paying a visit to the Barras of a weekend. My father often mentioned the cottage type building on Dalmarnock Road at the bottom of Springfield Road, which I think was Dr Shea's surgery at one point. It's @12:00 in the video. The peculiar thing about it was the chimney above the doorway, which I've personally never seen on any other structure before or since. Thanks for sharing so many old photographs, it's great to take a stroll down memory lane now and again.
i was born on Swanston Street in 1958. The son of Irish immigrants, I had one thing in common with all my neighbours; poverty. But we thought it was great.The midden between the tenement was packed with kids. Perrywinkles and a sowing needle; heaven.
@@glesgapal my Great Grandfather was an ARP warden on Allan St that night and said that he saw someone who was caught in the blast running around without his head
Born in 1945.. Lived at 517 Dalmarnock Rd across the street from Tenant's coalyard until 1954 then moved to Toryglen. Then to Toronto in 1960.. Accent's the same as the day I got off the boat.. 😉🏴
@@ross-lt4mc you see.. That's the trouble these days.. Groundless accusations. I was 15 when I arrived in Canada well and truly soaked in Brigtonian dialect and as a proud Scot, why would I speak any different? Of course it mellowed a bit but with the arrival of the Beatles, the last thing I was going to do was lose a British accent. It got me plenty of dates that loved my accent. And so.. I still have it to this day. Never call a Glaswegian a liar to his face.. 😡
@@glesgapal mate by your own timeline you’re 78 years old. Your RU-vid name is “glesgapal” lol. You’ve not lived here for 63 year ffs. Left and never returned yet still want to talk about accents and glesga.
It was what they called the parochial hall, and it belonged to Sacred Heart primary school..Don't remember ever using it though. It always appeared to be rundown.
the Strathclyde Cinema, later the Bingo was in Summerfield Street where I was raised, not Strathclyde Street which was at the other side of Dalmarnock Road. I lived in Strathclyde Street after I was married.
Bridgeton Main Street.....now the busiest place is the "health centre". Don't worry - justice is coming for those who destroyed peoples' lives and livelihoods.
If this is supposed to be dalmarnock why is most of it Bridgetown some mile end parkhead and lbrox flung in I know boundary's between first three can be blurred but Ibrox it's the other side of the city