Forgotten account? Wineally for Wine Producers We make your wines shine by having them served with matching dishes in restaurants or at home. However, as soon as Bishop Loch got permission to build, they immediately decided to cancel the hotel, and double the amount of private houses to a 1,000. We lived directly opposite the Steamie and I vividly recall playing "ball" against the red brick wall for hours. My earliest memory is when I was about 4 playing outside our close 39 Nethan St, my mum had got me all dressed up as the photographer was coming to take our photo , me and my 2 sisters sitting on the sideboard I wandered out the house with my new truck with wee soldiers in the back and was playing in a puddle when the photographer arrived and had to get all cleaned up again before the photo was taken, I have FTD (dementia) this affects my short term memory but fortunately not my long term memories, I have cousins who still stay around the wine alley. Mum married and moved to Whiteinch as a child and I remember going across on the ferry to Govan, Anyone recall my mum? I was so focussed what was in front of me, I never looked behind me and I disappeared over the edge. I stayed in Govan in the early 60's first in a tenement at 118 Govan Road, we stayed in the top storey mum, dad, me, my sister, and baby brother. Zobrazi viac od Sunny Govan Memories na Facebooku. Mother has an excellent memory and I am attempting to write down stories about; the old shops; events streets and everything. Related Pages. Many members of the family were married at St Anthonys Chapel. Govan glasgow street hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy My gran was Ella Campbell who lived in Greenfield Street during the 50s and 60 s. NGR NS 55416 65081. Nestled among the quaint streets [9] It had also been parodied by the BBC Scotland television comedy series Rab C. Nesbitt, with Wine Alley and the wider Govan area the stated setting for the show, though episodes were seldom filmed there. Sometimes it was hillarious, waiting in the queue to get onto that seat, and having to use The News of The World as toilet paper.wow! I remember the days my sister and I would take part in the fair while we were in a dancing school, which was named Thompsons. We were also in the Choir at Govan Parish church and in the B.B. Does anyone remember Cuthbertson's dairies milk depot Vicarfield street Govan. The Govan ferry was something special for us to go on, either by ourselves or with our mum. The locals in Govan fear that gentrification is making its way in, in the face of community objections.15 Govan is served by Govan Subway Station, Ibrox Subway Station and Cessnock Subway Station on the Glasgow subway system. 110m Govan Road Campus . Servicii comunitare. A list of almost 3000 ships built at Govan has been collected in the "Clydebuilt Database". The newlyweds got engaged in April 2018 after dating for three years and were forced to delay their wedding last April due to the coronavirus pandemic. My Gran Haggerty lived in 3 Helen Street Govan (above the CO OP). Glasgow Crime: Wine Alley and drug dealer Eddie Burnside Datum OSGB36 - NGR. In 1855, an elaborately carved sandstone sarcophagus was found during digging in the churchyard. That is why this Reflection will critically examine the Moorepark experience (within the context of community planning) from before Darners time to the 1970s and the present, where it will question if there have been any real changes in attitudes between then and today or worse, are the same mistakes being repeated, and is proven good work being ignored? The above digital stories were made by members of Govan Reminiscence Group for the Heritage Lottery funded Britain From Above Community Project in Govan, Glasgow, during Spring 2014. Anyone remember the prego cafe and who ran it? Went back recently, but things are not the same. Providing a family base with a family room in Govan, with weekly meetings in Govan and Easterhouse Providing consistent, non-judgmental support to families and individuals, and home visits to families in crisis Built in the early 1930s by the 1970s the Wine Ally had developed a fearsome reputation, the council \"modernised\" it and tried to reintroduce the original name Moorepark but after 40 years of being the Wine Alley most people forgot about or even knew that the Wine Ally was originally called Moorepark and did not approve of the name Moorepark and continued to call it Wine Alley. Glasgow Crime Stories: The drug nightmare of Wine Alley. Does anyone remember the shop or have a picture of it in the background? Jimmy's was our local shop and Ruby's was out local bakery which fed the Fairfield's workers. Above is a quote from a seasoned Timfrom the unfairly labelled Wine Alley (Moorpark) area, once of greater Govan, just off Broomloan Road. Would love to hear from you. Napier's Shipyard in Govan was later acquired by William Beardmore and Company in 1876 and incorporated into William Beardmore and Company in around 1900. In 1885, the yard moved further west to its present site and was reorganised as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday . Used to have a friend called Theresa Moody who died quite young. Vytvori nov et. Three times during my young life I was sent away to residential schools for being undernourished while just before my 14th birthday I was put away in an approved school (in 1963) for a large number of burglaries. I was born in Broomloan Road by the pot heid (TSB) bank which is still there. ; Scots: Gouan; Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of south-west City of Glasgow, Scotland. This facilitated the development of shipbuilding as a major industry. Wine Alley Govan Glasgow | Visit A Winery Memories of our workers are Nancy, Margret-Anne and various others, oh and not forgetting Speedy. No-Go Britain: Where, what, why - The Independent 102m The Govan Shed . I lived with my aunt and uncle (Mary Steven, Mailey) my aunt was a cook in Ibrox. I went about with Harry Bitters, Nick Shearer and John McLeod in the mad days of the early 70s. Great memories of Summertown Road baths. The answer is 1 authority is necessary because it plays an indispensable mediating role at local and city level through bringing togeth locals and officials. Young Young Winey (Govan) (G51) (Moorpark) 'Republican Wine Alley' I went to Govan High school and Fairfield Primary school, I worked at MacDonalds biscuit factory then went to Toronto with my husband Dan Slavin, I miss my wee town, it will not be same anymore. Any way they started to ask us our schools and of course my mates answered Broomloan Rd, Bellahouston and Lorne St, but when it came my turn my truthful answer was Our Lady and St Margaret's Primary just up the road from here. When I got married I moved to Arden, I now live in Clarkston in the South of Glasgow. See more of Sunny Govan Memories on Facebook. At the time this article was written in the local Southside paper, prices for the projected apartments were going up dramatically among the speculators.14 A few hundred yards east of this development, one-bedroom apartments at the newly built QE3 (Clydeside Festival Park) in Govan were selling for 129,995 while two-bedrooms at the same place will cost you 199,995. He also procured a contract with the Royal Navy to produce vessels, notably the Jackal, the Lizard, and the Bloodhound. We moved to Cardonald when I was very small but used to go back to Govan all the time and stay with my grannie at 711 Govan Road, above McLarens Newsagents. I don't like to think what might have happened if they had been discovered.''. My mother was born at 68 Harmony Row in 1924, when she was about 10 she was sent to Dand's Drapers on Langlands Road to buy thread for a neighbour and got her finger caught in the door which resulted in losing the tip of it which gave her years of pain, on a lighter note on the subway to hospital she had to pace up and down with pain which resulted in her leaving the subway with her pockets jingling. Man will spend up to 40 years in prison for raping woman he - pennlive [9], The earliest references to Govan are found in connection with the Christian church. In his 2008 memoir Chasing Killers he reflected on his time on the Southside. ), the street was a dead end because a school had burnt down. Lots of other good memories but also remember the terrible fires which took place. Media/news company. It was a beautiful building and I would have thought that the powers that be could have used it for something. I worked there for a time early 60s I left in 1962. 109m Bells Bar . Used to jump the dykes with my brother Kenneth. 3 Worst of all were the problems relating to the 759 flats and maisonettes in the Hutchestown Area E phase at Crown Street. I was in the 102 Life Boys then the Boys Brigade with my big brother Tommy. I think he lived in Partick and had 2 little girls. The barbers shop was called "Knop & Joyce" and was at 26 Langlands Road, it opened in 1929 and Harry Knop lived in the next close at 34 Langlands Road. Yup I'll always be from Govan even though we lived a bus ride with the messages away from it in Shieldhall, that was situated near to the 50 pitches, I remember well my Dad and me watching the shipyards football competitions. I have no memory just my dad's story. Interest. Forgotten account? I went to Broomloan Rd nursery then the school. Glasgow undercover cop reveals alter-ego life in 80s drug gang As for our childhood and growing up in Govan we would never change a thing, there was everything in Govan any child wanted and we never ever suffered from boredom after school, we were outside playing peever, rounders, climbing dykes, swimming at the pool and rolling our Easter eggs down the hill at Bellahouston Park. I was wondering if anyone had any information on the McSherry family? A later rebuilding was begun in 1884 and was opened 19 May 1888.[11][45]. Full of great memories. Pipe Band. I was attending what was then known as Duns Academy when my father decided to emigrate to Canada. 11 Barr, 1997, p. 47-58 12Dailly, 2005, p. 8 The manager was a man called Jackie. I'll do a bit of investigating. There, two local cops came up with the idea of using several of the houses to keep a 24-hour watch on the gang. Great memories. Only neighbours I remember were children Mary and her younger brother James Haggerty who lived in same close which I think was 95 Golspie Street. My grandparents on my mother's side were McElhinneys and attended Plantation Church while my dad's side and myself attending our Lady and St Margaret's Chapel. Only a few years into it, faults like dampness had begun to appear in the tower blocks of the Laurieston/ Gorbals project, which rapidly turned into a disaster area. Good times we had, wonder where they all are now and if they remember me. The estate was acquired in the 1870s by the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company and the mansion house was demolished. The huge shoe shop was, I think Bayne and Ducketts. There I was, short hair, snotty-nosed from crying and eating an ice cream cone. Our parents and our brother were also married there, and we were all Christened there as well. Our first daughter was born in 1962, and then when she was six months old, we went to Toronto, Canada. Was never out your streets up the fighting lol Peg & the Fleet pussies,Possil Border kicked your assesmany times. We went back to Govan until we could get passage, and I attended Bellahouston Academy. The first trade I learnt was stealing and gambling yet it seemed normal to all of us as children. Conecteaz-te. The writer on housing problems, T. A. Markus, wondered why many important questions were never asked in the planning process. Members of our family have now moved away to other locations in Glasgow and Paisley, but we still remember our childhoods growing up in Govan. Remember, Charlies sweet shop opposite us, where after playing football we were soaked in sweat, you got a glass of lemonade for threepence. Around this time a second surveillance was being carried out on Burnside and three members of his team who had travelled to Liverpool in another car. History [ edit] HAPPY TIMES. Houses are places to live in, either for one person or several. Run by a tall slim guy whose son was a racing cyclist ? Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please On the 21/6/2005 the plans for the future of Govans Central area were publicly revealed showing that housing and concern for unemployment was high on its agenda. I'm sure many of these places will have been demolished or renamed but it would be great to hear from anyone who knows of the family or can provide any more details. Show More . For other uses, see. My sister and I were married in 1961 at Govan Parish where we were members. Now her daughter (my mother) is 92 years old and I am fascinated by the stories which her mother passed down to her and now to me. The latest victory for the SNP was in the 2007 Scottish parliamentary elections, when Nicola Sturgeon became the MSP for the constituency. Vezi mai multe de la Sunny Govan Memories pe Facebook. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. As the rate of urbanisation has increased in the last 30 years, the government capacity to support the disadvantaged within this sphere has in many cases failed. My brother and I would wait for the coal lorry to come round the corner and hang onto the back of it as it drove up the street. Govan was the site of a ford and later a ferry which linked the area with Partick for seasonal cattle drovers. Glorious Govan. The lack of house building was not only an added threat to the existing shops and services but also to community life which was struggling just to survive because of the lack of houses. My maternal grandfather was a master brass moulder in the shipyards. In fact, within only two years of the first tenants moving into their 7-storey deck-access blocks (in 1972); they had begun to complain about severe dampness, condensation, and water penetration. Went to St. Gerards School from January 1959 to December 1962. Komunitn organizcia. They expect 20 calls a week from officers needing help. RM 2E6CW9C - Workers line the street and applaud the hearse carrying former trade union official Jimmy Reid as it is driven past the Govan shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland August 19, 2010. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, textile mills and coal mining were important; in the early-nineteenth century, shipbuilding emerged as Govan's principal industry. Before leaving the area in 1975, Damer sent in his report on Moorepark to the Housing Manager of the Corporation of Glasgow where he attacked the Corporation for failing to do its job in managing and maintaining both the houses and the environment in Moorepark. Skater Girl. 8/1. There existed a hospital in the area, and as quasi-religious foundations were not taxed, it had never been assigned to a sheriffdom. I lived at 73 Nethan Street, Govan. (was it Grant's????? What Damer said about community could also be said about officialdom for they too can be victims of circumstance whenever decisions for the better do not influence policies for the worse. Govan is served by community radio station Sunny Govan, broadcasting on 103.5FM to the city of Glasgow and surrounding districts, discussing local issues and providing advice, and with diverse musical output covering soul, hip-hop and reggae. Media/news company. I was born in Govan in 1948 and lived with my grannie in Vicarfield Street, opposite the school. When we moved to Nitshill in 1060, I realised how much I had loved Govan. I am looking for the name of a barbers shop that was on Langlands Road at Helen street end. In Cowie Street, Kinning Park there was a pub at the corner but can't remember what it was called? Verejnoprospen prce. 14). Moorepark is a small area in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Not Now. British Aerospace, established by the same act, was privatised in 1981. Smith did know Glasgow well, but Edinburgh (where he later worked as Secretary to the University) was gloriously exotic. It occurs in the buyers market where access to housing is based on the ability to pay, and it also takes place in the council allocation system where the disadvantaged are lumped together in sink housing schemes. 3 Smith, 1999, p. 40-41 Below are memories and stories about Govan posted by visitors to the site. We left govan to go to Drumchapel. Resources were stretched as detectives dealt with high levels of violence including murder - much of it drug related. My sister and I were born the year before the second world war at Montrose nursing home in Govan. I remember one time, my big brother hiding in the midden under all the ashes, when I went down three stories to empty the fire ashes. When they checked the mileage they realise it was being used for much longer trips of up to 600 miles a time. Although the scheme had a bad reputation for crime, drinking and violence, as a child I never felt unsafe or deprived in any way and knew only kindness from my family, friends, relatives and neighbours. Lesbian actress Raven-Symone showed off her high top fade and her unique backpack at the Los Angeles Premiere of Fox's 'Empire at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California. In 1136, when Glasgow Cathedral was formally consecrated, King David I (112453) gave to the See the lands of Partick and also of the church at Govan (on opposite sides of the River Clyde), which became a prebend of Glasgow. The most famous of these housing estates is Moorepark, sometimes referred to jocularly as "The Wine Alley"[22] - this area was named by The Independent newspaper in April 1994 as one of the worst areas in Britain, with drug abuse being a widespread problem and unemployment standing at nearly 30% (up to three times the national average at the time). Around 1963 we moved to Arden where I went St Louise Primary School. [31] GEC's Marconi Marine division already owned YSL (purchased in 1985) and VSEL (purchased in 1995). There were two other sporting venues for local residents and workers located in the south of Govan (with no space available in the industrial northern area at the Clyde): White City Stadium and Albion Greyhound Stadium, both now entirely demolished. "I like to be challenged and Govan did that every day.". pigella miraculous ladybug power. Govan Church was rebuilt in 1762, and again in 1826. I have memories of buying penny and thrupny canes there to make a bow 'n arrows. Govan borders the district of Ibrox, home to the Scottish football club Rangers F.C. There mother sold her house to get them season tickets to basketball games before they met their baby daddies. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. I was born in Broomloan Road Ibrox in Govan in 1958. dealing, drug abuse, and money lending had flourished in a big way since 1975, which only added to the schemes wretchedness. 5 Smith, 1992, p. 4 In the cace of Easterhouse it was the various interested parties of the Eastethoude Community Group who decided to get the authorities to tske notice of their plight by directly intervening their own affairs. My mum's brother Spinx (George Hewitt) stayed in Teucharhill and my dad's brother Alex Rodgers drove a milk float. Furthermore, although the new regeneration programme mentions housing quality and physical improvements as valid points in deprived locals, they are still regarded as unessential to regeneration. Our children and grandchildren have been back many times as well. I remember my mum and dad and telling me how Govan was full of works, tenements, shops and pubs and how it was a vibrant place, this was very different from 1970s Govan that I grew up in, instead it was like a town after the blitz, I remember large areas of spare ground where the tenements and shops once stood, I remember playing in the old derelict tenements and works and in the rubble of demolished tenements, in the old tenements in Orkney Street we pretended to pour pints in the old Albert Bar. I lived across from Fairfield shipyard and I saw ship being launched when l was about four, I saw Harry Lauder embark from a ship and he was the first person who told me I was a bonnie wee lass. Next thing, I found myself lying on the ground. In fact, the idea was publicly abused in the first of the two SEU documents above. In May 1979, Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister and her ministry soon began its privatisation programme. [4] In 1864, Govan gained burgh status, and was the fifth-largest burgh in Scotland. When Damer returned to the area in 1989 he found that his earlier report had had two outcomes. First, this fosters connectedness seen in social capital and enhanced trust in government and in fellow citizens. My mother was Frances Leddy and she was born at 57 Hamilton Street in 1926. The area was parodied in the BBC sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt, though episodes were usually filmed elsewhere. Facebook Housing Estate (Modern) Site Name Glasgow, Govan, Moorepark Housing Estate. [6] Govan is believed to have then been part of a kingdom ruled from Dumbarton Rock, known as Alt Clut, the rock on the Clyde. The first was an experimental improvement programme, which had the initiatives: the partial modernisation of the houses, the re-planning of the external environment, and the construction of a Tenants Hall. Email: enquiries@gblink.org.uk , www.gblink.org.uk Of all the memories that I hold dear as a very young boy, was the guy pushing a barrow every Saturday afternoon selling bags of whelks! During my first year studying sociology I came across Damer again in the form of a book that he had written about poverty and deprivation in the Wine Alley but put it to the back of my mind. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I was born in Govan, at home, on Luath Street in 1935. Next thing I know, this policeman appeared, he looked like a giant and he asked me what was I doing. My Mum was Godmother to your brother and I was at your wedding. Living Dangerously in Govan by James McDonald. . [29], Kvrner of Norway, as part of a planned development of a large international shipbuilding group, took over Govan. 123m New Cafe India Govan . I remember a little dog who was hit by a car and people brought him straight in to us. From Rushden we came back to Larbert, then to Lauder. The School that was situated at the end of Cowie Street was the "Wee Lamby" or Lambhill Junior Primary. We had some chalk on us and we wrote on the outside of the lovely red tiles on the wall. Govan railway station opened on 2 December 1868. Thus, the major failing of any community planning is its inability to understand this relationship between the community and authority in detail and in an objective manner. Doublers; Rounders; Kick the Can; Ropes I could go on and on particularly with the little verses we once recited lodged in my brain still! But then officers were based in a more forbidding Victorian building about a mile away in Orkney Street. [23], It was parodied by the BBC sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt. A sip of tea on Gloria and Laura Govan | Lipstick Alley I really like the big Co-op department store and Woolworths on Langlands Road. Poor health and low-levels of educational qualifications are offered as secondary parts of the equation. Situated south of the River Clyde and part of the former Burgh of Govan, it was colloquially referred to as 'Wine Alley' during the mid-to-late 20th century when a housing scheme with a rough reputation was sited there. Finally, Darners last thoughts on a solution to Mooreparks spiralling problems were that it could be found in Community Planning. The plan was to video and record any deals as they happened - a tricky and dangerous proposition. Lastly, the reflections are intended to be used as a tool among the many Church, statutory, voluntary, and charitable organisations, to aid and encourage a fresh approach to the eradication of poverty in our lives today. He liked nothing better than tothrow empty drugs packets out of his window and watch a crowd of desperateaddicts scrambling for them. We used to prick our fingers to drop blood into the fish tank where the (goldfish-sized) piranhas were and watch them converge on the blood.
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