Jonny Johnson, played for Hearts ? Maths
Daddy Walker, kept his belt over his shoulder, maths.
Aitkinhead, PE
Hinshelwood, English
Mason, one eye which he used to eye up the girls. Art

I think yhe newspaper shop was Harry Donnelly's.
The grocer was Louis Boyd as you said.
I don't recollect a sewing shop nut ther was one further out Boglemart St. I think my mother bought hanks of wool from there

John Thompson(jock Tampson) lived next door to us at Gasworks Close
They moved to Moore Park Road East later on. We used to go down and visit them. Nice people.

The cheese Hill. Was that at the white wife beside the dog track. I remember it, shaped like a cheese.

Love this post, I'd totally forgotten about it.
I was born at 2 Gasworks Close. Behind Harry donnellys and across from the smiddies. I too used to play at the gas storage units. There wS a ridge which collected water and we used to pretend that there was fish in it, smelly. Happy days !

I was born in Gasworks Close in 1944. The gasometers were at the end of the close and I used to play at them, a bit smelly. It was between Maxwell the dentist and Harry Donnelly's sweetie shop. There was also a blacksmith(smiddy) in the close, my granda worked there for a while. I remember mum telli...

Was Gilbert born 17 Oct 1905 ? If he was he is in my my Walker family tree.

Does anyone have a photo of Gaswork Close where the Smiddy was, behind Harry Donnelly's sweetie shop. I was born in gaswork close with two brothers in a wee room and kitchen. Had to have a bath in the tub in the wash house, outside. Used to play at the gasworks beside the huge storage tanks. My gran...

It was definitely the Dardanelles because my mum told me she was a barmaid in it when she was 18, 1937.
I remember it vaguely.