The Hidden Glasgow Forums

Here's a strange one from a coupla decades back. My Mother-in-law Jean had a sister Joan who had been left quadraplegic after an ambush during the Greek Cypriot conflict in the fifties. A wire across the road and she ran her motorbike straight through it. Snipers were waiting for the First Aid help....

What about the guy around the West End/Byres Road/Botanics who always wears a big thick dark coat and hat with ear flaps, regardless of whether it's 30 degrees or 3 degrees! Yeah, Earflaps Man gets fed in the morning at the University Cafe and occasionally nips intae the Uni Barber in chancellor St...

Mah work transferred aboot 200 of us through to Cowglen in 1993 from Edinburgh (Thank God!!). We stayed there for 3 years and it was great...well, as great as work can be. Most of us had previously commuted to Edinburgh. We were in a different branch of the Civil Service from the NSB - the Land Regi...

You're right about Listen. Yeah, Hades...You went downstairs - carefully, coz they were that steep - and the place was bathed in red light. You couldny see the covers of the LPs because of it. The walls were thick wi artex, it looked like the place was melting. But then again, it was the seventies...