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> Men's Hostel Near The Barras, this might be a shot in the dark...
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post 6th Jul 2013, 10:32pm
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Trying to remember the name and/or location of a men's hostel that lay someplace between Parkhead and the city centre. My mum can remember walking past it as a child and seeing lots of men gathered on the steps outside. Any ideas?
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post 6th Jul 2013, 10:38pm
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The Great Eastern on Duke Street???


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post 6th Jul 2013, 10:50pm
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There was a couple of council ones at the back of the barras.
One was called william booth house.
Great breakfast. stayed in there many a time.

The old salvation army one was called hope house.



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post 6th Jul 2013, 10:58pm
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the bellgrove hotel, gallowgate.
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post 6th Jul 2013, 10:59pm
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I think JimD is right it is the Great eastern.


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post 6th Jul 2013, 11:12pm
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Ask and ye shall receive! Cheers guys, mum reckons (after a quick shifty at Street View) that it might be the Bellgrove Hotel but there may have been another building with steps nearby where the men sat. Hard to tell when everything around it has been demolished...then again, what hasn't been sad.gif
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post 6th Jul 2013, 11:31pm
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Hear is a wee photo of the Great Eastern if it jogs your memory.
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post 7th Jul 2013, 03:02am
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QUOTE (Jim D @ 6th Jul 2013, 10:46pm) *
The Great Eastern on Duke Street???

wild guess did you work in glasgow works


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post 7th Jul 2013, 09:14am
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There was a "moadel" {hostel} in Suffolk St,that`s right at the Barras,then there was Roses Home on the corner of Craignestock St and London Rd.That`s halfway beyween Bridgeton cross and Glasgow Cross.
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post 7th Jul 2013, 10:47am
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There was anothe deedle - dodle in Moncur Street,right in the heart of Barrowland.
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post 7th Jul 2013, 01:05pm
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QUOTE (Jupiter @ 7th Jul 2013, 10:55am) *
There was anothe deedle - dodle in Moncur Street,right in the heart of Barrowland.



I got banned from there in 1986.


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post 7th Jul 2013, 03:44pm
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If your Ma can remember it as a child, it probably wasn`t James Duncan House in Bell St. One block west of Morrisons (Gallowgate), and right behind the fire station/block with Phoenix Bar on one end and Hoops Bar on the other.

When built thirty year ago, fire station wasn`t there, so more visible from Gallowgate. Went under the wrecking ball lately. Might find clip on Youtube. Might jog her memory.
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post 7th Jul 2013, 04:17pm
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Bell street, was that the one with the different TV rooms including sky movies?


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post 7th Jul 2013, 05:01pm
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I have no idea what it was called ,but when I went to Charlotte St. School there used to be a lot of old men that used to come around and watch all the girls .


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post 8th Jul 2013, 12:50am
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Yes Isobel,there was a homeless shelter in Greendyke St,just near our old school,a lot of derelicts hung about there all day and night.
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