slum housing late 19thC to 1920s, could be anywhere

[old rowley]

Thanks for putting the link up Silvery as my father and his family came from Glasgow it is interesting to see how/where they once lived. More so as there is a photograph there of 79 Richard Street pity that the photographer could not have taken one outside 104 Richard Street as that was my grandparents address in the early 1920's.

old rowley

[cathaldus]

Dear Wheeldon and Silvery,  No offence taken!  No offence intended!  Just wonderful the struggle that ordinary folk went through to make some kind of living.  A  hard life dominated by a bitter upper class,  determined to preserve their ill gotten privileges at the expense of the poor.  For myself I am eternaly grateful for having had a good education leading directly to a professional qualification.  My maternal grannie,  who died in Manchester in 1943,  could not read or write and smoked Gallaher's thick twist in a clay pipe,  but she was,  without question,  one of the wisest people I have ever known!!  I went over to Clogheen a year ago and what an emotional reunion that was!!  Anyway,  keep on truckin'
Bill

[wheeldon]

Hi Bill, your Gran that smoked the pipe was she by any chance 6 feet tall and kept rabbits, if so we are related   

[cathaldus]

Dear Wheeldon,

Now how did you know that???  (Actually 4'10" and she ate rabbits!!)   

Bill