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Postby HollowHorn » Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:33 pm

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Postby Mori » Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:27 pm

Used to look forward to the Glasgow Green carnival when i was boy.

They had a very cute advertising poster they posted up in the buses a few weeks before the fair came , i always used to look out for it. :D

these swings and the Dive bombers were my favourite rides.

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Postby Pgcc93 » Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:58 pm

Never went to the Green only ever went to the shows at Toryglen pitches or Queens Park recs.

Best rides were the Motorbikes and the awesome Rib Tickler which you just knew had to be good as the stench of Vomit and cheap disinfectant hung heavily in the air as a lasting reminder of previous satisfied customers as you entered ::):
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Postby Fossil » Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:17 pm

Pgcc93 wrote:............. The Stench of Vomit and Cheap Disinfectant................


Two of the best punk bands I ever saw - Rock Garden 1978 I think

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Postby Dexter St. Clair » Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:18 pm

Ronnie wrote:
HollowHorn wrote:"Broncho Tom"


Sounds like a cowboy with a serious chest complaint.


Have you been to the Grand Ole Opry? It's full of them.

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Postby DickyHart » Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:22 pm

jeez oh pg, the ribtickler, that thing did everythin but tickle ribs, death defying thing
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Postby Alex Glass » Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:37 pm

I went to the shows on the Green one during the Glasgow Fair. It would have been about 1969/70. We walked through the Gorbals which was quite frighting. We only stayed at the Green for about 30 minutes as we didn't have a lot of money so couldn't go on any of the rides. I think we only has enough money for the swings.

The smell of the candyfloss and chips & vinegar are the things I remember as well as the fear.

The Green had a very bad reputation at that time and I still haven't told my mum I was there that day.
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Postby Mori » Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:03 pm

An ET PDF doc on Glasgow @ play feature on Glasgow Green Carnival Fair.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/pdf/140704past07.pdf
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Postby HollowHorn » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:48 pm

Just in case any interested parties missed it on another thread. This is the site of the "East End Exhibition Buildings" as per Google Earth.

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The site now has been covered over by new build.
This is the site to where Bufallo Bill brought his wild west show in 1891.

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Colonel William F Cody (Buffalo Bill) brought his Wild West Show to Dennistoun in October 1891. The show opened on the 16th of November, and closed on the 27th of February 1892. He was accompanied by Sioux Braves and sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The show played at the East End Exhibition Building off Duke Street for two months as part of the great East End Industrial Exhibition set up to raise funds for the People's Palace. The Ghost Shirt, worn by a Sioux Indian at the Battle of Wounded Knee, was sold by the Lakota interpreter of his show George C. Crager and displayed in Glasgow museums for over 100 years. It was finally returned home to the South Dakota museum in Pierre until the Lakota people have their own museum. The Ghost Shirt was seen for the last time in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery on July 25 1999.


http://www.tnais.com/bbis/1891.html
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Postby Apollo » Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:14 pm

Doubly interesting. We lived in Meadowpark Street when I was a wee wean, the house is still there, though I visited the area recently and noticed quite a few building replaced nearby. Never realised the show featured was so close, even if rather well before my time.

Also saw the Ghost Shirt and the presentation at Kelfingrove quite a few times before it was returned.

Good stuff :)
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Postby HollowHorn » Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:36 pm

Whitehill School:
I received this message from Tom Cunningham, whose Mum went to Whitehill :-

I am writing a book on Scotland's Native American connections. The major one is as I suspect you already know, - literally - right on your doorstep. Next to the old school building is where Buffalo Bill's Wild West show was located in 1891-92.

Now, get this for a unique claim to fame for your school - the school opened, as you say, in 1891, but did you know that the official opening , according to a report in the Evening Citizen, was on the night of 16th November? - ie the same night as the Buffalo Bill's Wild West show opened just a stone's throw away!


http://rubble.ultralab.ac.uk/whitehill/about.HTM

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Vinegarhill:

Crowds at the Vinegarhill carnival, 1915
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People enjoying the Vinegarhill carnival, circa 1915
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The trailerpark at Vinegarhill, Glasgow, 1949
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The trailers of the fair people at Vinegarhill, Glasgow, 1949
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Vinegarhill trailers, Gallowgate, Glasgow, 1954
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Children at Vinegarhill, 483 Gallowgate, Glasgow, 1954
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Postby macca734 » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:45 pm

The shows I remember were the ones in Royston, somewhere near Glenconner Park, Broomfield Road pitches and a couple of times on the land at Hogganfield Loch on the opposite corner from the New Inn pub at Millerston Cross.
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Postby HollowHorn » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:04 pm

You mention "Royston" there, Macca, could you explain the diff between that area & Robroyston, for me?
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Postby macca734 » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:23 pm

HollowHorn wrote:You mention "Royston" there, Macca, could you explain the diff between that area & Robroyston, for me?


Royston is just east of Townhead, whereas Robroyston is up to the NE of Balrnock and Barmulloch.

Difference?

Probably five or six strands of DNA and about £200,000 in terms of income.
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Postby HollowHorn » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:47 pm

Arf, arf, nice wan.
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