Of course the easiest money was scrambling for the coin thrown out of the wedding car as the bride and groom left the church. Before moving to Rowanside we lived half a block from the Park Church on Glasgow St. and we always checked on Saturdays to see if there was a wedding on so we could get some ...

I remember my brother and I going to meet the trains from glasgow at the town station with our bogey during the fair fortnight to carry their luggage to the hotels along the front. We could hardly make out what they glaswegians were saying as they talked so fast but the money was good.

Bob

Hello Penny I realized after you posted the follow up pictures that it was not Eddie Macintyre in the first picture but was definitely him in the big weans picture. In the big weans picture I believe the wean fourth from the left next to the wean with the ball is my elder brother Richard. I will tak...

I remember Fanny Waters really well as I got into trouble with her because I refused to attend her Scottish country dance lessons. I did the first year but you had to give up your playtime to take them. My elder brother Richard and another guy named Raymond Dyke was, as she never let me forget "...

Hi Penny Thanks for your PM drawing my attention to this photo. My younger brother is the wee yin wi' the specs in the front row (Raymond). It was good to see this photo which I didnt know existed. I believe the boy in the top row left is Eddie Mcintyre who was in my class in Eglinton. I was watchin...

Rowanside
I lived at 8 Rowanside Terrace from 49 to 57. I notice you say the shops were built in 1958 however I left for Canada in June 1957 and they had been there for about a year before I left so they had to have been built in 1956
Bob

In Flanders Fields is a well know poem here in Canada as John McCrae was a Canadian. It is widely recited at Remembrance services across Canada. John McCrae was in the Medical Corps and was killed shortly after writing this poem.

My first day at Winton school (1946). I wis petrified. Hid up one of the closes in Winton Street till my grandfather saw me and got my mother to come and take me into the school. My first teacher was named Rae or Ray and the head mistress was Miss Macilwraith who lived next to the school. Miss Macil...

The lump in your throat when you watch a pipe band pass by

1950s

Hi Maggie Just talked to my brother who had the paper route before me and neither of us can remember the name Boyd. We do remember that we picked up the papers from the house next door to the cabin from a Mrs Murray. She ran the paper end of things with an iron fist but she had a heart of gold. This...

I delivered papers 7 days a week in Barrie Terrace and Hunter ave. Had to start at 6 every morning and also delivered some nights after school. Sunday mornings were the worst because of the weight of the Sunday papers. Cant remember the name of the wee shop at the tap o' Barrie terrace but I think w...