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I went to the Good Shepherd Primary, whose entrance was a couple of steps further on. The house in the photo was a private house during my time (late 50's). It had a green wooden hut at the side, which served as a sweetie shop. I am afraid I committed my only act of larcenary there, when I stole a s...

fao: busdriver - I'm informed Parkhead's ground was on Helevale Street (see above post and disused terracing). Parkhead Juniors played, certainly in the 1950s in the park shown in the bottom picture, opposite the fire station and called, at least locally, Parkhead Juniors' Park. But I do remember a...

[quote/]Now off to the Mitchell with you :wink:[/quote] Thanks for this. I have read the Wordsal but not the others, so Mitchel here I come. I also read a book on the stigmatisation of Blackhill by Sean Damer from Glasgow University, which had some intersting points on its development, but was overw...

[quote="Dexter St. Clair"] ... others like Lilybank ended up that way... Thanks for your comments and for the picture. It shows the so-called "improved" version of flats just round the corner from where I grew up in the 50s. (Not really an improvement, I think) It was only much l...

Is there any - relatively easy - way to get information on how certain council housing was actually designed and built? I'm thinking especially of the sort of new tenement that was put up in Blackhill, Lilybank etc in the 1930s (I think) and which are all just about disappearing. They were three sto...