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| Jimmuck | "" Glesga Slang "" whit's yurr favourite expression?? (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) | 251 | Yesterday, 9:24 PM EDT by Granimac | |||
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Thread started: Feb 9 2008, 2:15 PM EST
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It's been brought to my attention that some of our posters are not too swift when it comes to the usage of
""" Glesga Slang """ Now, I was surprised when viewing a Scottish movie, by Danny Boyle, on our North American telly (s'cuse me) television service and they had inserted 'Sub Titlesbut that is North America. Sadly, it appears that our 'Glesga dialect' is so bad, that even some of our brethern on this Board have difficulty dealing with it. What a sad state of affairs. I mean, who amongst us hasn't used the term, "C'mon gerraff"? or the toffy version "Come on, get off" (disnae work, dizzitt? or, when trying to get a piece of your Pal's Penny Dainty uttered the words "Gie's a dodd, gonnie?" When I first came out to Canada, in 1969, I was telling a story off the 'cowardly gang packs' that roamed Maryhill Rd. looking for 'A' victim. My listeners were some old Springburn buddies and when I said I was "hinging ower the windae" they all burst out laughing at hearing that old Glesga' expression. It would be terribly sad if we could only use 'proper English' on here rather than my prefered 'Glesga slang' The site would then become a discriminatory board and one that I certainly wouldn't participate in. I'd sincerely appreciate a modicum of respect for one another and HOW WE POST. the board is fun, let's keep it that way. Can you imagine how popular this wee song would have been if it wasn't sung the way it was intended?? "If you shood see a wee fat wummin' staunin' oan the coarnurr bummin' 's ma Mammy!" and that! my friends, is how I'll be posting. NOW, SHARE YOUR FAVOURITE "GLESGA' EXPRESSION WAE US, AWRIGHT CHINAS??
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| buntygal | Photo Gallery (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) | 274 | Yesterday, 6:45 PM EDT by Harrymc | |||
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Thread started: May 1 2008, 10:42 AM EDT
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I've just been tidying out the photo gallery as everytime a photo is uploaded in one of the sections it also creates a copy in the gallery as well. I've made sure photos I've deleted are already in sections but have also moved some to the relevent sections, so although no longer in the gallery they ARE still on the site. There is a facility in the photo gallery to create albums, this might be useful for some folk but where th photo is relevent to old Springburn then photos are best uploaded to sections on the Nav Bar. Bunty
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| Novascotialass | Message board (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) | 711 | Yesterday, 12:01 PM EDT by Harrymc | |||
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Thread started: Jan 12 2008, 12:42 PM EST
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Steve, can you not modify posts on this message board ??? I'm finding it pretty hard trying to understand how this site works. ??
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| jeanpickering | Gourlay st | 1 | Aug 11 2008, 2:20 PM EDT by Jeanmccrae | |||
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Thread started: Feb 16 2008, 10:08 AM EST
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Hi Tommy, I lwas born at 55 Crichton St. (1938) just around the corner from you and eventually lived at 68 after being married, what is your surname, maybe I knew your sisters r brothers........
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| stevedr | All Saints School. | 2 | Aug 9 2008, 5:47 PM EDT by buntygal | |||
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Thread started: Jun 14 2008, 6:51 PM EDT
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Since there are several members who went there and we have heard so little about it on here, this thread is for those went there. My understanding is that they had a decent football team for instance, so lets hear some of your old memories.
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| jorowland | urgent help | 10 | Aug 8 2008, 12:14 PM EDT by dot21 | |||
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Thread started: Aug 7 2008, 5:50 PM EDT
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I am trying to trace relatives of mine some of who are now elderly and time is running out. Does anyone out there remember a Nellie Marshall who lived in flats opposite the Salvation Army in Springburn. She had 6 children called Mary Anderson (nee Marshall) who I think might be in Australia, Douglas, James, Peter, John and Andrew. Nellie died about 18 years ago and she was my Grandmother. She had three other children named, George, Elizabeth and Thomas McDonald. I would like to trace them - please help me if you can.
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| gretanow | Springburn Childhood History (as far as I can remember) (page: 1 2 3 4 5) | 88 | Aug 3 2008, 9:34 PM EDT by lindascott-mac | |||
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Thread started: Jan 2 2008, 1:04 PM EST
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I was born in Govan a nursing home where my mother was taken. On my birth certificate it says 44 Merryland St., Glasgow. I've got one of those 13 inch by 6 inch paper certificates with all the family history on it. I don't remember ever being in Govan (thankfully) but I believe my parents had a single end on Adamswell St., for a little while, then moved up country to a room/kitchen on Springburn Rd. somewhere around in 1936. I lived there until 1952 when we were moved to the Milton scheme, which I hated and definitely put a curse on it. Within a week we were rescued by the fire department from a gas leak and we moved back to Springburn Rd. Then we lived there until 1953 when we were moved again to a "better environment" - Barmulloch. Only thing good about it was that we had a bathroom with a bath, washstand and flush toilet, I had a bedroom to myself and the coal bunker was on the landing. I hated it! In front of the three-storey building was a very empty piece of wasteland which I believe became some sort of college, long after I left to emigrate to Canada. Getting to work from this barren place was a horrendous story. Buses couldn't get up and down Red Rd. in the winter because of the snow and ice, there were no stores, few friends, rare buses. Who thought this up? Must've been some person living in luxury in England. Anyway, I escaped to Canada in 1956. Goodbye, no regrets. More later..
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| Jinty1 | Favourite Cafe? (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) | 142 | Jul 27 2008, 10:35 PM EDT by IanCampbell | |||
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Thread started: Jan 6 2008, 3:21 PM EST
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What was your fave cafe in Springburn? I loved the Ice cream in the Balgray cafe which sat right at the foot of the hill.
To sit in (when we had any money) we usually went round to The Venetian Cafe just round the bend at the bottom of the hill onto Springburn Road.
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| parachute | Backcourt games in tenements (page: 1 2 3 4) | 76 | Jul 13 2008, 11:30 PM EDT by MaryMackenzie | |||
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Thread started: May 26 2008, 10:11 AM EDT
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I was thinking when we were young,and how we spent our play time in in the tenements,and when in the backcourt in Gourlay Street it gave you the view of a lot of open windows,and kitchen sinks,if it was a sunday morning and a summers day, you could hear the sounds of the Mammy,s gettinp up to make the breakfasts,and with some voices louder than others,the loud ones were the angry ones,for whatever reasons,just a jumble of sounds,and always a babys cry coming from somewhere,The Tenement Syphony song comes to my mind,but this is Springburn ,soon the kids would come out to play,some would play "Peva" remember that game,with the chalk lines made with three lines to start ,then into two squares,one square,then another two squares, and used the flat stone with a skipping motion to get the stone into the so called bed,which was one of the square this was the lassies game,.then there was the game of rounders,similiar to baseball but using a tennis ball,you had the ball aimed at you running in between bases,if it hit you you were out,that was a good game for the boys,but the girls played that game as well,and a game called release,there was two teams one team chased the other and when you were caught you were put in a chalked pen,and when one was able without being caught,to run through the pen,and shout release,then every one was set free to join in the game again,then there was Hunch Cuddy Hunch a boys game,We also played cricket with the wickets chalked on a wall useually a makeshift bat,and a tennis ball,when you missed the ball, and it hit the chalk mark,the ball had the mark on it, then you were out,I dont think children play these games any more,and I am thinking,only if you were living in the old tenements with the way of our lifes were, would you get the fun out of these games, We Springburn kids were an adaptable group when it came to having fun.
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| buntygal | Colston School (page: 1 2 3) | 40 | Jul 10 2008, 3:11 PM EDT by Jeanmccrae | |||
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Thread started: Jun 12 2008, 5:16 AM EDT
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With many of you having been to Colston school thought it should have it's own thread for memories and stories. So keep them coming
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| dot21 | old friends (page: 1 2 3) | 45 | Jul 8 2008, 12:51 AM EDT by wellfield | |||
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Thread started: Jan 25 2008, 2:24 PM EST
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Does anyone know where Sandra Harvey is she was my best friend at Colston, also James Forrester who lives in New Zealand has searched many years for David Anderson they both lived in the blocks in Springburn any news would be grateful.
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| jmtaylor | Demoliton of Springburn | 5 | Jul 7 2008, 7:20 PM EDT by jmac49 | |||
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Thread started: Jul 6 2008, 7:50 PM EDT
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As I was quite young when I lived in Springburn I didn't realise that most of the demolitions were taking place to make room for a road. Back then I had just assumed that because the part we stayed in was a dive, that was the reason for them getting pulled down. I was unaware of all the political machinations going on and probably unaware of what a great place Springburn was at one time. I do however, totally understand why my parents gave up a room and kitchen with outside loo in Springburn to move elsewhere. There was a severe shortage of decent housing in Springburn and it obviously got worse as time progressed.
I do wish that more of the tenements that were in better condition could have been refurbished. I have watched a movie about them renovating and refurbishing tenement housing in the East End to a very high standard. It just appears that there was no political will to do the same with Springburn. The state of some of the buildings meant that they could be regarded as slums and some families went to desperate measures to get a move. I remember a family that lived opposite us in Bedlay Street, who claimed to have poltergiest activity in their flat. It was covered quite widely in the local press. It was also widely known that the poltergiest activity was an attempt to get Glasgow Corporation to move them from the appalling housing conditions. Does anyone remember the stories about the wholesale migration of rats at night when the demolitions were taking place? I am happy to say I never witnessed that.
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| chunkybear | albert school (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) | 221 | Jul 6 2008, 6:20 PM EDT by williedee | |||
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Thread started: Jan 19 2008, 6:37 PM EST
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hi i went to albert primary and albert secondary from 1962 - 1975 and lived in edgefauld road and then the maisonettes in galoway st then my parents moved up to the high flats ion balgrayhill would love to speak to anyone as i have a lot of memories from springburn
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| magsglas | Dr McKay @ Dr McCulluch (page: 1 2) | 32 | Jul 4 2008, 10:02 PM EDT by biga22 | |||
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Thread started: Jan 13 2008, 8:27 PM EST
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Can anyone remember Dr McKay he scared the live out of me and used to hate seeing him . i always wanted Dr McCulluch he was nice in his manner and understanding . To me Dr McKay was the devil of the 2. The surgery was on the botton of Keppochill rd
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| lindascott-mac | Re street names (page: 1 2 3 4 5) | 99 | Jul 3 2008, 1:39 PM EDT by jmw212 | |||
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Thread started: Nov 15 2007, 10:19 AM EST
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I recall there were two streets which brought you off springburn rd into Galloway streets tenement housing, one was called cairn street where the police & telephone boxes stood next to the police cadet houses[1 close of police cadets in training got to live their ] situated on springburn rd next to a cooperative store which is now a plumbing company I believe?at the bottom of the hill entrance facing the old 60s -70s Esso garage & junk caryard placed on springburn rd ,I mean there at the end where the plots & dummy railways were side by side. the other street was called Huntershill street which had Harkins newspaper shop takin up the corner of the bottom of that hill entrance where one could await a 45 bus also diagonaly across from there was a dairy called Jacky Wilsons on that huntershill street[cobbled then] both of these streets were entry points into Galloway st coming off springburns very very long main rd.
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| DodiLamb | For all the exiles. | 1 | Jul 2 2008, 9:09 AM EDT by TheBigYin | |||
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Thread started: Jul 1 2008, 2:55 PM EDT
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I thought I would send this web link to all the exiles like me so that they could see what was going on in George Square.
This is, as you will see, a link to a live web cam 24 hours a day. George http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/AboutGlasgow/WebCams/#
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| Moiramary | The Gospel Hall (page: 1 2 3 4) | 62 | Jun 23 2008, 3:33 PM EDT by Irenexw8 | |||
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Thread started: Feb 7 2008, 1:33 PM EST
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The photo of the Gospel Hall looks like a new one to me. Is it still at the top of Hillkirk Street. I used to go there in the 1950's with Jean Wallace. My sister used to with Rosalind McAuslind. (Ithink that's how it is spelt) We used to have to learn the books of the Old Testament. Can still recite most of them!!
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| TheBigYin | Virtual Sprinburn | 10 | Jun 19 2008, 1:00 PM EDT by TheBigYin | |||
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