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Glesga_Steve wrote:RapidAssistant wrote:Funny how you only get a perspective of a place once you've been away from it for a while.
Before I moved up north 6 years ago to a quiet wee village in rural Perthshire, and recalling my first 29 years growing up in Shettleston, I look back in horror the amount of times I walked from the railway station to my house in Sandyhills at night, sometimes late at night, blissfully unawares of all the youth gangs (the Shettleston Tigers were a pretty notorious lot...) that could have easily chibbed me, walking past the dodgy pubs where "deals" were surely going on, the Town Tavern, the Cottage Bar etc. not to mention the infamous Sheiling Bar up at the top end where there have been two shootings in my lifetime.
I am lucky to still be around!!
I lived in a wee development behind the Sheiling for a few years in in my early/mid 20s and I can recall at least two stabbings, one of which proved fatal, during my time there - I'm fairly sure there was a (non-fatal) shooting as well. Despite that, I never felt at risk of being threatened or assaulted by the group of lads who used to hang around that area. My opinion has always been that if you're not looking for trouble it will rarely, if ever, find you.
But, as DAVID LEASK discovers, 'Mugging Capital of Scotland' no longer applies
GLASGOW was long Scotland's mugging capital. Not any more. The number of robberies, most of them on our streets, have plunged in recent years.
Plunged so far, in fact, that the robbery rate in the old Strathclyde Police area was last year lower than Edinburgh-based Lothian and Borders.
bAzTNM wrote:Possil Loch has always been dodgy. Junkies all sitting on that wall beside the Lambhill Stables. Pretty nerve-wracking really when you need to walk past them.
RapidAssistant wrote:A friend of the family passed on at the weekend, and made me think of the times we used to visit him and his family - they stayed in Milton - which was an absolute bombsite of a place - one of the classic 1960s schemes that went down the drain almost as soon as it was built. We used to dread going to see them, you'd never be sure if the car would not be up on bricks when you came back out. Truly gangster territory - the dealers in recreational pharmaceuticals had set up shop in the flat upstairs before our friends got a new house somewhere else. Looked up Raasay Street on Google Earth the other day - mercifully its been flattened.
Boxer6 wrote:RapidAssistant wrote:A friend of the family passed on at the weekend, and made me think of the times we used to visit him and his family - they stayed in Milton - which was an absolute bombsite of a place - one of the classic 1960s schemes that went down the drain almost as soon as it was built. We used to dread going to see them, you'd never be sure if the car would not be up on bricks when you came back out. Truly gangster territory - the dealers in recreational pharmaceuticals had set up shop in the flat upstairs before our friends got a new house somewhere else. Looked up Raasay Street on Google Earth the other day - mercifully its been flattened.
Are you talking about a specific block of flats RA? I ask only because I drove along Raasay St this afternoon, and I can assure you it remains well populated with residential housing!
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