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Stories about 'Neighbourhoods'

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TheGlasgowStory features short stories and captions about many Glasgow neighbourhoods. If you would like to add your own story, this is the place to do it. It can be about life in an old established community such as Gorbals, Partick or Govan, or a more modern housing scheme such as Easterhouse, Castlemilk or Drumchapel. The choice is yours!

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There are currently 15 stories in this category. To read a story click on its title.

UploadedTitleAuthor
18/09/2005Robroyston Hospital
For those of you who remember Robroyston Hospital, forget it. It has been demolished and there's a massive hou...
tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley)
31/08/2005Castlemilk in the Good Old Days
I had been in contact with another writer who had a relative who delivered papers in Castlemilk, and we were a...
Saucy the Pheonix (Norman Ross)
03/06/2005Blackhill Locks
Set on the Monkland Canal at Riddrie, the Blackhill Locks site was a favourite place to spend a day. Swimming,...
Rockajock (Tony Jaconelli)
14/05/2005Red Light Neighbourhood Tales.
Glasgow has changed in every way over the past 40 odd years of my experience so far. And nothing more so than ...
boydcalder (Boyd Calder)
04/05/2005Garnethill
My earliest memories of a neighbourhood was living and growing up in my Grannie's house circa 1950s in Garneth...
tazza (tazza macleod)
29/04/2005Mountains and Oceans
Living as we did in concrete jungles, with tenement buildings all round us and the only bit of green we ever s...
tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley)
12/04/2005Parochial Glasgow
At age 11, after passing the Qualifying Exam (better known as the Qually), one had the choice of Secondary Sch...
tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley)
20/03/2005Tam Taur The Townhead Ghost
I was seven years old and lived in the tenements of Townhead, Glasgow. We lived at the corner of Glebe Street...
punnaburra (Wee Bertie Toms)
09/03/2005Ruchazie on the Bonnie Banks of Loch Hogganfield
At the tender age of eight my parents got an "exchange" through the Corporation. This would be in the year of...
punnaburra (Wee Bertie Toms)
04/02/2005A Govan Childhood
After I'd written "Trams in Govan", I realised when I saw it on the website that I'd left it somewhat bald and...
Aonghas Mor (Angus MacPhee)
31/01/2005Tramcars in Govan
In Govan in 1927, when I was born there on Mathieson Street which later became Luath Street (it's still there)...
Aonghas Mor (Angus MacPhee)
13/01/2005My Shettleston
I have read many articles about the Town of my birth; I have searched bookshops and libraries hunting for any ...
Rockajock (Tony Jaconelli)
12/01/2005James Orr Street
Life began for me in 7 James Orr Street in 1954. The close had a little metal tag at its entrance which read ...
Jake (Jack Chalmers)
10/01/2005Dunchattan Street
On the whole Dunchattan Street, off Duke Street in Dennistoun, was a small town in itself. You could buy anyth...
snowman (Sammy Dailly)
07/01/2005Cardonald in the Fifties and Sixties
I grew up on Gauldry Avenue in Cardonald during the fifties and sixties. We used to play in the big field ...
sstaas (sandra staas)

 

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