Speirs Wharf Glasgow

[Skoosh]

Don't know these places Fifer, being more familiar with Springburn, Dennistoun and the Toonheid.
 I worked for a power cable firm in Cambuslang at one time and we had a drum yard which backed onto the high wall of the canal in Oakbank Street, the pub at the foot of the street was MacLeod's, I was fairly familiar with MacLeod's!
 
Bests,

Skoosh.

[fifer1947]

Ah! Found out why it was called the Normal School

"Here too, from the 1840s, was David Stow's Free Church Normal School for training teachers."  

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/story.php?id=TGSDG14

[fifer1947]

we had a drum yard which backed onto the high wall of the canal in Oakbank Street

That would have been close to Firhill Park?

[Skoosh]

Just up from the Roond Toll it was a bit like Fort Laramie what with enterprising natives forever abseiling down the walls on washing lines in search of copper only to be thwarted in their efforts by Wee John the watchie and his big dug. And the polis arriving in the nick of time just like the Seventh Cavalry.

Skoosh.

[fifer1947]

Just for fun for you Skoosh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXMtbsHwVfM

[Skoosh]

 

[A bairn]

Annie  lived at 554 Garscube Rd in 1877 where she was married from..According to the marriage cert she was still a millworker, her husband an iron moulder journeyman, and her father a brewery labourer.
Looking online for the address it seems the area is now an industrial estate.
Maureen

[fifer1947]

Annie  lived at 554 Garscube Rd in 1877 where she was married from..According to the marriage cert she was still a millworker, her husband an iron moulder journeyman, and her father a brewery labourer.
Looking online for the address it seems the area is now an industrial estate.
Maureen

What's the name of the industrial estate, is it Oakbank something?

[A bairn]

I don't know, I just went into Google Street, which I usually  do to see if the old buildings are still there, and all I kept seeing was industrial buildings. I've found this to be commmon here and abroad, the old buildings cleared to make way for wider roads or warehouses.You see fifer I'm not just looking for lists of names and dates for my ancestors I'm also trying to understand the kind of conditions they lived in and some understanding of the lives they led so they become real people in my mind. I just find family trees with their lists of names and dates incredibly dull and lifeless.
By the way I tried the web address you sent for the Glasgow Story site but couldn't get the picture