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QUOTE (ashfield @ 15th Oct 2009, 11:50am)
Avril, I was being a bit tongue in cheek with my reply. My apologies if it sounded confrontational
I think my parents were the last to get a telly a fridge....and the list ...goes on but sure as hell made me apprectiate such luxuries later in lfe...Our kids havnt lived! I often wonder at how my mother manager to cook, clean, feed five of us on a daily basis. I lived in Egilsay Terrace and went to local shops for penny frozen bruised fruit. I did go out with a guy Alex Calder who lived near Liddlesdale shops and went to St Augustine annex.
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hi rosielee i mooved into milton from lyon st in 1963 first in scalpay st then ensay st was away for a couple of years and then back to liddesdale rd and now in shapinsay st and i am now working in the care home that thay built whare that annex used to be. oh boy its a changed place dont you think. my ma used to send me up to liddy shop for five woodbine cigs. i know people who wont let the kids do anything by themselfs and thats a bit sad. i went to chirnside school and then to colston when it was safe to walk with your pals. i know people bad mouth the place but if you have grown up in milton you know its not all bad its got a lot of great people and i will allways stick up for our milton.xx baggymaggs.
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hi all i remember big scotty very well he brought my da home a couple of times because he fell off the bus drunk and could not walk down that lane from liddy to scalpay st ho! ho! the good old days eh! he was a good polis and a nice man too. he allways talked to us kids and told you when it was time to get home if it was getting dark. you would not see that now.
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Hi All Are you talking about Big Scotty who stills walks along the Canal towpath ,from Lambhill to Balmuidy Rd Bridge , and does he originate from the Fife Area..Cheers Flim
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QUOTE (flam @ 12th Nov 2010, 05:21pm)
Hi All Are you talking about Big Scotty who stills walks along the Canal towpath ,from Lambhill to Balmuidy Rd Bridge , and does he originate from the Fife Area..Cheers Flim
Ask him if he was the local "Polis" in the 70's around Milton?
He may be in his late 60's or early 70's.
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QUOTE (Rosielee @ 21st Oct 2010, 09:01pm)
... I did go out with a guy Alex Calder who lived near Liddlesdale shops and went to St Augustine annex.
In my first job my mentor was a guy called Alex Calder. He belonged to the Glasgow Wheelers (Cycle Club). Would it be too much of a coincidence that this was the same Alex Calder (ca. '59)
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Hi bds1958 ..Big Scotty did serve in the police force around the Milton/Lambhill/Cadder area but I do not know the years.. Big Scotty I reckon looking at him would be around the 60/70 year old mark ,his first name is Jim, I know his second name, but I think it would be wrong to put it on without his permission..Cheers Flim
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QUOTE (flam @ 16th Nov 2010, 11:34am)
Hi bds1958 ..Big Scotty did serve in the police force around the Milton/Lambhill/Cadder area but I do not know the years.. Big Scotty I reckon looking at him would be around the 60/70 year old mark ,his first name is Jim, I know his second name, but I think it would be wrong to put it on without his permission..Cheers Flim
Agree about his name. You could always PM me and I could give you my name. Not that I was in much trouble but there was one wee incident that still raises a smile when I think about it. He probably wouldn't remember me.
I remember him patrolling Vallay Street, where I lived, during my "formative years"; 1965 - 1975.
Thanks for the dialogue.
bds1958
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I moved to Liddesdale Rd 1964 from Grove St Cowcaddens. Went to St Augustines Primary and Scondary but my sister and brothers went to St Joe's. I have brilliant memories of Milton. Moved away in 1984 when thing started going downhilll. Everyone knew Big Scotty, though dont know anyone who had a good word to say about him. Always knew if he was in the scheme on Monday, someone would be lifted by Friday usually for something stupid. I've not been up for a couple of months now and still have friends there but its not the place it used to be by a long shot. Cheers Mary ps. Think everyone knows Big Scottys real name and where he stayed.
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We moved from Barloch St to Liddesdale Squ in 1953. We moved in while the shops underneath still only had bare light bulbs. We got the telly for the Coronation, and had a big hoose party wi aw the neighbours! Went to Chirnsyde Primary, then High Possil. Ref: Alex Calder - there was a Calder family in one of the corner closes in the square. Christine was in my class all through school, and her Mammy was a dinner lady at Chirnsyde. (in they days you only got the job if you were a widow). Jings I could be here aw night
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