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Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:48 pm**

A lot of interesting reading on here...i'm impressed

That aside, who was yer local team?!!!

Mine was Drumchapel Derry/Hill Team (ya bass)

Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:16 pm**

Clydebank Bundy, come ahead ya fanny.

Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:28 pm**

Young Dennistoun Monks, Baltic Fleet, Calton Tongs.

Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:33 pm**

Something Young Team

Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:35 pm**

Sydney Rosewater wrote:Young Dennistoun Monks, Baltic Fleet, Calton Tongs.

More than a few moonlight flits there, SR.

Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:36 pm**

glasgowken wrote:Something Young Team

Shoooosht, Kenny, yir frightnin' the weans :roll:

Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:51 pm**

Sydney Rosewater wrote:Young Dennistoun Monks, Baltic Fleet, Calton Tongs.

So you being an Ex RCT member would you know who Wee Paton is then. :wink:

I was a Pollok Bushwacker. (Well lived in their territory)

Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:07 pm**

Young Krackpot Torch.
Then later in life a Dennistoun Monk for a while before realising the futility of it all.

Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:09 pm**

cybers wrote:Young Krackpot Torch.

Titter.

Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:28 pm**

HollowHorn wrote:
cybers wrote:Young Krackpot Torch.

Titter. ::):

Yer i always wondered about the use of the K too...
But really only as i got older...

apart from that YCT was the domain name before the kid-on Real calton tongs were born. And they were our neighbours for a wee pitched battle

Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:46 am**

Smartalex wrote:
Sydney Rosewater wrote:Young Dennistoun Monks, Baltic Fleet, Calton Tongs.

So you being an Ex RCT member would you know who Wee Paton is then.

I was a Pollok Bushwacker. (Well lived in their territory)

haha, I didny say I was in any of them!! Jist different areas.

Posted: **Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:04 pm**

Every gang had their teritory , I stayed in Ruchazie from 1957 till 1968 . I was going out with a girl from carntyne ,so i had to cross the canal bridge into Cranhill to walk her home ,our gang would be at one end the cranhill mob at the other ,I was given a safe passage to take the g/f home ,and the same curtesy was given to anyone who had to walk a girl through Ruchazie ,but you were in deep shit if you tried it for any other reason.

Posted: **Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:13 pm**

bluepeterno1 wrote:Every gang had their teritory , I stayed in Ruchazie from 1957 till 1968 . I was going out with a girl from carntyne ,so i had to cross the canal bridge into Cranhill to walk her home ,our gang would be at one end the cranhill mob at the other ,I was given a safe passage to take the g/f home ,and the same curtesy was given to anyone who had to walk a girl through Ruchazie ,but you were in deep shit if you tried it for any other reason.

That would have been the wooden bridge bp1. I lived near the bridge from 1967 and witnessed many fights here and also suffered a war wound during a stone fight once. It was usually just stones and large bits of wood that were the weapons of choice.

For some reason these fights didn't stop us from playing football down at the school annexe. By the time they finished the motorway and the new bridge I think this venue for a fight ceased to be used. Or maybe people just grew up and moved on. :wink:

Posted: **Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:18 pm**

Thats it Alex ,gosh at night then it was like checkpoint charlie .

Posted: **Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:27 pm**

BP1

The Ruchazie gang would start gathering at about 6.00pm in Bankend Street.

By the mid 70's my mum would be out with her watering hose to soak them as they ran by the house. I remember one night my dad got so tired of the continued fighting that he ran out with a garden shovel and shouted to the other neighbours to come out from behind their curtains and come and help him get rid of the gangs.

Not long after this the bridge was closed and a new temporary road built at the back of our house. there wasn't much bother after this.

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