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Thanks for the suggestion about Call Yersel a Bankie - I've had a look at the Facebook page and and it looks like good fun and chat there. Not sure I qualify as a Bankie myself but I shall probably ask.

I can't vote, none of the options apply. I live far far far too far away (Chesterfield, Derbyshire) and can only visit Scotland a couple times a year, then it's Edinburgh. Are you all locals? I thought you'd have tons of members overseas n that.
Celia Renshaw in Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Thanks wee Harry, I was surprised to see on a map in a book called "The Gorbals - Historical Guide and Heritage Walk" by Ronald Smith, that at least part of Crown Street was still there. I had been told by family that it "was all gone now". But I guess all the tenements went. One...

Hi everyone, I'm new to the lounge and hoping to gain help with research into my Scottish dad's family. He had an unusual surname, and for a long time his was the only DANFORTH family in Scotland after his grandparents William DANFORTH and Isabella (CLAVERING) moved to Glasgow from Yorkshire between...