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Re: Barrachnie Inn

Here is another ... from a different angle Notice the fox on the wall. There was a folk duo -- Robin Hall & Jimmy McGregor, away back in the fifties and sixties, and I read somewhere that the Barrachnie Inn was mentioned in one of their songs. Wish I knew what the song was called. I would like t...
by War Baby
Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:02 pm
 
Forum: Pubs / Clubs / Restaurants
Topic: Barrachnie Inn
Replies: 4
Views: 6202

Barrachnie Inn

The Barrachnie Inn has just been renamed THE EAST END FOX. So it's the end of an era. Quite sad really.
I don't even know if it is even a pub anymore ...? I don't think it is. It might be a restaurant or something like that.
by War Baby
Wed Sep 28, 2022 7:53 pm
 
Forum: Pubs / Clubs / Restaurants
Topic: Barrachnie Inn
Replies: 4
Views: 6202

Re: The Doc is no more (Tommy Docherty)

Am I right in saying he came from Shettleston? Was it Pettigrew Street?
by War Baby
Sun Sep 18, 2022 2:27 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: The Doc is no more (Tommy Docherty)
Replies: 2
Views: 25709

Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Reading CASH, the autobiography of Johnny Cash. He was great friends with Roy Orbison. At one point, he writes of his admiration of the way men styled themselves away back in President Thomas Jefferson's time, and Cash told Roy Orbison he wanted to wear his hair as Jefferson wore his, in a ponytail ...
by War Baby
Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:55 am
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: What Are You Currently Reading
Replies: 560
Views: 478249

Re: What Are You Currently Reading

...Have just started reading John Cleese autobiography. Got it as a Christmas present.
by War Baby
Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:19 pm
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: What Are You Currently Reading
Replies: 560
Views: 478249

Re: Glasgow Abattoir Duke Street & Pictures

In 1958, I was an office boy in the Union Cold Store, 39 Melbourne Street, right next to the Meat Market. I went round the meat market every day delivering lines to each stance. Just for the record, these are the stances I delivered lines to... S.C.W.S. ….Spence Bros … then, turning left, National P...
by War Baby
Thu Dec 12, 2019 12:34 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow Abattoir Duke Street & Pictures
Replies: 30
Views: 144609

Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Just reading a book by Dyan Cannon, who I think married Cary Grant. It is called: Dear Cary - My Life with Cary Grant, by Dyan Cannon. I think she would be his fourth wife of five. Only at page 120 of 339. They aren't married yet. At this stage, she has just revealed a harrowing true story about wha...
by War Baby
Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:13 pm
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: What Are You Currently Reading
Replies: 560
Views: 478249

Re: Battle Burn

You mentioned Neilson's garage. I can remember it quite well. For quite a few years, back in the fifties, there was a pile of scrap metal and other junk at the south side of the ground belonging to the garage, which you could see as you passed along Mount Vernon Avenue. In among that junk, believe i...
by War Baby
Fri Nov 09, 2018 7:54 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Battle Burn
Replies: 61
Views: 161830

Re: Nuclear war in Glasgow

I was born in 1943, and when I was a boy in the early fifties, Russia, America, and Britain were building up their stocks of Nuclear weapons all the time, and the threat of war seemed to be very real. It seemed to be on the front page of the newspapers nearly every week that yet another Russian test...
by War Baby
Sun Apr 29, 2018 6:52 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Nuclear war in Glasgow
Replies: 14
Views: 24730

Re: The Peter Manuel case.

Just about the Mount Vernon area around Mount Vernon Avenue in the 1950's..... Coming from the Hamilton Road end of the avenue, the houses stopped at Woodend Road. From that point, if you looked to your left, you could see Wester Road on the other side of Mount Vernon Park. There was, and still is a...
by War Baby
Tue Feb 21, 2017 1:46 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: The Peter Manuel case.
Replies: 75
Views: 258299

Re: The Peter Manuel case.

It was the Woodend Inn he was going into. I have read that he was attracted to the Mount Vernon area because of the big mansion houses. He thought he might try a few break-ins.
by War Baby
Tue Feb 21, 2017 1:22 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: The Peter Manuel case.
Replies: 75
Views: 258299

Re: The Peter Manuel case.

If you look for Sherburn Gardens on the map, she was buried at the foot of that field. Sherburn gardens is where a dirt track ran off Mount Vernon Avenue at its highest point towards the Brickworks. (There were no houses in this area in the 1950's) The field stretches southwards and downhill from th...
by War Baby
Tue Feb 21, 2017 11:08 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: The Peter Manuel case.
Replies: 75
Views: 258299

Re: Renfrew Airport

My father was still a schoolboy when he took a trip in a tram from Glasgow to Renfrew to see the aerdrome. He had become fascinated by the exploits of Jim Mollison and Amy Johnstone, who were breaking records for solo flights to & from Australia at the time. He went straight into the flight offi...
by War Baby
Sun Feb 19, 2017 6:36 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Renfrew Airport
Replies: 84
Views: 137292

Re: The Peter Manuel case.

Dot, I am not surprised that some of the relatives are not happy. I don't think they should have made this into a drama. I have been watching the program, and it is chilling. I live in Mount Vernon myself, and everyone was affected by it at the time. The relatives should have been spared this.
by War Baby
Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:52 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: The Peter Manuel case.
Replies: 75
Views: 258299

Re: Trying to pinpoint my father's birthplace in Bishopbrigg

k2, It is very interesting that your great Grandfather was at Benallan in 1914, because I think my ancestors were there at that time too. Two of my ancestors were living at that house when they were married, one in 1915, the other in 1922. The following info may or may not bring up a surname that co...
by War Baby
Fri Nov 25, 2016 9:57 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Trying to pinpoint my father's birthplace in Bishopbriggs.
Replies: 25
Views: 21396
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