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Stories about 'Holidays'

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Do you remember travelling "doon the watter" from the Broomielaw? Where was Glasgow's favourite Clyde resort? Do you remember the WORST? Or perhaps you have fond memories of travelling further afield. Let's hear your favourite Glasgow holiday story.

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There are currently 14 stories in this category. To read a story click on its title.

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19/09/2005A Memorable Lager
The year was 1981 and I had just left Glasgow for a cycling holiday and a visit with my father who lived in Ca...
Dugald (John Milloy)
28/08/2005A Holiday in Glasgow
Glasgow holidays can also be viewed from the other direction, that is, as a destination rather than a starting...
Dugald (John Milloy)
21/08/2005A Run Round the Coast
Today was yet another glorious day here in the West of Scotland. Not a cloud in the sky and the temperature h...
tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley)
15/08/2005A Wartime Holiday From Glasgow
Despite the war and the government campaign to spend one's holidays at home, we did go away for a holiday ever...
Dugald (John Milloy)
16/07/2005Co-op Camps
It was the best of times. Our family holidays at the Glasgow Fair fortnight in July. The Co-op Camps at Rothes...
tazza (tazza macleod)
15/07/2005Huts
We used to go to Port Seaton every June, July, August. We had a hut there. There were caravans and, years la...
weejeanau_1347@hotma (jean marshall)
12/07/2005What Has Changed
Sitting writing this on holiday in Torremolinos on the Costa Del Sol, Spain, made me think back to what our ho...
Rockajock (Tony Jaconelli)
14/05/2005Holidaying in the Highlands
The stories of holidays on the Clyde have intrigued me as I too had "one" of my annual holidays ther...
marion.quillan (marion quillan)
12/05/2005Barmulloch to Millport - A Million Miles
I suppose we were lucky, although at the time (early sixties) it didn't seem that way. We lived in the brandsp...
boydcalder (Boyd Calder)
18/04/2005Escape from the City Air
My mother always managed to take us on holiday, no matter how hard up we were. She would scrimp and save, put...
carlinherd (Mary Cairns)
11/04/2005First Start at the Loch
When I married Rebecca I happened to gain my mother-in-law. I fondly called her (and then the rest of the fami...
peter.howden (peter howden)
11/03/2005Doon the Clyde
Most of my childhood holidays were spent in resorts on the Clyde, in fact nearly always at Ayr. We started the...
sweenie (Jean Kendal)
04/03/2005Day Trips
In the late fifties/early sixties my father purchased a brand new Hillman Minx. Proud as punch he was with his...
sstaas (sandra staas)
10/01/2005Rothesay Every Year
I used to really look forward to going to Rothesay for the Fair Fortnight every year. My mum, dad, younger si...
snowman (Sammy Dailly)

 

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