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I may just be sinking into a cynical retirement, but my memory of the Garden Festival was an expensive pile of tacky, non-permanent sheg. Like many other Glasgow white elephants it was but a flash in the pan destined for the scrappie.
Hi Moonbeam. Read with interest your contribution in which you highlight a range of positive political achievements you believe were secured by Mrs Thatcher. Those from the other side would of course offer up a different view of the alleged benefits brought about by Mrs Thatcher. We can debate this ...
Jock. You are absolutely correct.....to celebrate the death of any human being is more than a disgrace...but the fact is, that Mrs Thatcher was not just any human being. This is a woman who ripped apart whole swathes of working class community both here and in the north of England. I well remember b...
Hi Moonbeam. Thanks again for your informative reply. As someone who lived in the scheme from 53 until 89 I well remember the manouvering of all those who claimed to represent and support those who lived there. Even today, I still on occasion drive through the scheme and wonder if it ever was a good...
As a long term resident of the Drum I am unsure about just what street this is...but it is one video of a whole number of Drumchapel videos hosted on an faceless unamed website. While we are on the subject of Drumchapel, apart from being shot and mounted does anyone know what happened to these concr...
As I continue to celebrate the benefits of retirement and frequent innebriation, I have come across some wonderful (and awful) examples of male urinals in Glesga pubs and other public places. As a past professional exponant of the Plumbing trade and Social Services I am familiar with the darker aspe...
Moonbeam......you seem to have a great deal of interesting info on Drumchapel. When I was a child aged around eleven while in hospital I talked with on old fella who told me that he worked in the old Peel Glen mine in Peeel Glen Road in Drumchapel. Do you haave any info 0on this or leads where info ...