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cataclyzm wrote:Hi,
Really beautiful and so unusual in its style. It's a law unto itself the mercat building. The tenements around there are stunning and the wee streets near the old pet shop and St.Andrew's Square. Just thinking about them gives me goosebumps.
I love that area of Glasgow and I can remember when the washroom and baths were still open at the left hand side of the pet shop (is it still a pet shop?)
Years ago as a schoolkid - i did a terrible thing. I snuck into that pet shop with a plastic bag full of water and stole a large comet gold fish. I'd planned the crime since i'd seen the fish a week or so earlier and wanted it for my collection but had no money. I did get on a bus with the full size carrier bag full of water.
To whom it may concern - I'm sorry as I was just a stupid kid.
robert.
cataclyzm wrote:Hi,
Really beautiful and so unusual in its style. It's a law unto itself the mercat building. The tenements around there are stunning and the wee streets near the old pet shop and St.Andrew's Square. Just thinking about them gives me goosebumps.
I love that area of Glasgow and I can remember when the washroom and baths were still open at the left hand side of the pet shop (is it still a pet shop?)
Years ago as a schoolkid - i did a terrible thing. I snuck into that pet shop with a plastic bag full of water and stole a large comet gold fish. I'd planned the crime since i'd seen the fish a week or so earlier and wanted it for my collection but had no money. I did get on a bus with the full size carrier bag full of water.
To whom it may concern - I'm sorry as I was just a stupid kid.
robert.
cataclyzm wrote:St.Mungo was the illegitimate son of an eastern Scottish Princess who was banished from the Lothian area by her pagan father (a lothian King) for adopting Christian beliefs. On her own and without protection she was raped and destitute until saved by some Christian Monks and given sanctuary.
cataclyzm wrote:She gave birth to Mungo who was mentored as a child by a holy man named Fergus who Mungo spent his formative years learning from. Upon Fergus' death in old age - Mungo placed Fergus' body on a cart and vowed to establish a church where the animals pulling the cart came to rest. That place he named: Glas Chae (ancient welsh) which meant: the green hollows/green place.
cataclyzm wrote:hi,
Also!
This area glas-cu/ glescae et al was also clearly known as: Cathures. I'm not sure what that means.
Life before the Anglo Saxons eh?
I don't want to claim to be an expert I just follow my heart and recall what I remember from books.
ps. after leaving Glasgow for another country I often remembered the old man from Sprinburn with his wee dog. He walked everywhere - all over the city. He was a kind man and in a dark period of my life he brought a little light. Just an ordinary Glasgow man.
Years later when I returned to Glasgow and to the Necropolis and showed my friend the Cathedral and the place that I loved, we leaned over the bridge and I looked up the road towards the Royal. Who was walking towards us underneath the bridge with his wee dog? yep, the wee man.
From a distance he looked at me and I smiled and he waved at me in recognition and I knew that Glasgow had given me a gift of remembrance. A gift of her own kindness in a world that can be cruel in a place that has been broken.
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