Main Street, Glasgow

[RJ_Paton]

Bridgeton, Calton and Anderston.

Bridgeton and Calton are both in the same area in the east of the city however Anderston is on the west side (just west of the current city centre area)

Some images of Calton can be found at
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/search.php?search=99&where=%7CCalton

[daval57]

Falkyrn,
We've shared quite a few posts in recent months.  Where are you in Scotland?  Glasgow too?  Just being nosey - we could be neighbours     
Dave

[RJ_Paton]

Just outside Glasgow although I was born and raised in the City (south side)


Re Calton ... once a highly prosperous area in its own right due to the weavers who plied their trade

The Calton Weavers from the East End of Glasgow became Scotland's first working-class martyrs' when six of them were killed by soldiers sent in to quell their strike.

The incident - at Drygate Bridge in 1787 - was the earliest major industrial dispute in Scottish history.

Those who died were buried in the Calton Cemetery in Abercromby Street, but the graveyard has become dilapidated over the years.
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Even the plaque commemorating the strikers is in such a bad state that only one name - James Page - can be made out.

Quote from an Evening Times article

[liverpool lass]

Thanks for the info Falkryn. I really must visit Glasgow sometime! My ancestor was a Blockcutter journeyman so probably had something to do with the cloth trade.

[weemo]

Dave just having a chuckle at this as my grandmother lived in Bridgeton and I actually remember going down the butchers too. She was off Springfield Road. Which my uncle was janitor to Springfield High School, that's where the fans used to park there cars to go to the Parkhead homes games.

[daval57]

Glad you enjoyed weemo.
Whereabouts off Springfield Road? 
It's unlikely you would have walked as far as Orr St.  Lots of butchers in that area...still are playing at Parkhead 

When did you move down to England?  TRAITOR! 

 

[weemo]

70's Daval. Moved to London to get some money to go to Canada and met my hubby and that put paid to me going there. He didn't wantme to go. awwwww!

[patrick cryans]

My father was Francis Cryans born 1923   -  244 Main Street Bridgeton brother of Alex and 8 others
Would anyone have any Voters List for the above address between 1920-35
Patrick Cryans

[FionaOctober]

I am interested to see 244 Main Street (Bridgeton) Glasgow mentioned here. I have just discovered that relaitives of mine were married at 244 Main Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow on 31 December 1875. NOt only was that the place of the marriage but it was also cited as the usual residence of both the groom (David Turnbull) and the bride Minnie McDougall). I imagine that 244 was a tenement address - but in that case was it normal to be married at home? Interesting that Davhil01's father-in-law was born here. It seems an address where everything happens!! Can anyone shed any further light on this?