The Hidden Glasgow Forums

Hello Dimairt.I have been lookig at your stuff and found this book "The Glasgow Tramcar" by Ian Stewart it shows the first tram as heading to Renfrew ferry,I used the 29 to go to school in maryhill I used to get a theehalfpenny hauf there and back outside the maryhill barracks up to lennox...

I remember Mr Winkler we worked at the Kennomeat in barrhead He was a german prisoner of war very tall and he stayed in parkhouse farm (Istayed in parkhouse rd at the time )last I seen him was in barrhead an old man but he still remembered me,also all that ground was lord darnleys and it was used as...

Hello JayKay,You can download the 15th HLI book for free with the GUGGENHEIM PROJECT, Idid and it will show you all the soldiers who served and died with the Battalion,Ian.

Hello again been workin away.Glasgowken your right I collect and repair,one war medal I got this week had a snapped of suspender from a man KIA in dec 1914 it came with a photograph of him and his wife and two children,How can things like that be tossed out.
Stricky.

Hello Stranger,Patrica1 here,I know these bridges well as I served my apprentceship in the paper mills there EDWARD COLLINS they were for the trains that brought the esparto grass for the making off paper and also the branch that fed the gas works and further afield I think I have an old book about ...

Just a wee one ,my da shug took us to calderpark once and as we looked at the lion whit a sad lookin cratur ,he said you would get a bigger bite aff its fleas.
we didny try it oot.
Stricky.

Hello Roxburgh,and all,I think I got of on the wrong foot the other day,some of the stories I have heard over the years are terrible and we have to buy stuff like medals plaques etc,I have bought medals from people who say they dont mean a thing to me or Ive no one to leave them to and a lot of othe...

Hello all ,Just had a great stirfry and opened a bottle of red(naw it wisnae buckie onny)Just started and already caused a stooshie, Sorry folks,I was at the Carl Jenkins concert last night (brill but very sad we have a lot to be thankful for), I have a load of memorys of finding stuff in the HLI ba...

Thanks onyir,I have loads of this stuff my wife goes crazy but a canny just throw it oot and naebody wants it so I pack it away as best I can. help me if you can I posted a letter to DUCK by mistake it was for ROXBURGH but its lost somewhere in cyberspace. It was all about collecting medals etc and ...

Hello onyirtod,Point taken,but 90% odd of medals will only get you a couple of fish suppers,sad but true you would be best to keep them as oneday your next of kin will thank you,dont forget its their history to (DAD WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO GRANDADS WAR MEDALS).
Ian.

Sorry DUCK,that last one was for ROXBURGH.

Thanks Duck,None of them should but very sadly they do,For my part I collect HLI medals (a link with the past maybe)I never got james`s medals probaly tossed out or just lost in the ether,A strange one though I bought a set of medals to brothers who stood in line with him Privates 1725 and 1729 both...

Someone please take a photy of the one inside the old spillers factory in barrhead if ever a red box fell on hard times its this one,nae windaes,nae red paint,but when it was working we used to phone in from it and say ahm no well I`ll be in the morra,and then go up tae the dovecot for a few more be...

Got to looking at this site,and remembered I found some old tennents stone bottles with their stoppers intact they were made by the possil pottery,I used to be a midgey raker myself,Nowadays all my bottles go into a green plastic box at the top of my path(and by the weekend it is usoally full),Stric...

On this saddest of sundays,Remember Pte 1728, James Strickland KIA 12th july 1915 at Achi Baba Nullah(GALLIPOLI)