Searching for Thomas McGee Argyle Street (1936)

[capricorn]

In the 1930 valuation roll 80 Argyle Street is listed, just seems to have disappeared after that

[wickedwenchdee]

It was 30 Argyle street not 80. 😞

[capricorn]

It was 30 Argyle street not 80. 😞

Sorry....I've put 80 instead of 30 in my post

The address reads 30/28 Argyle Street...Vauderville Pictures Ltd
The numbers down the left hand side are consecutive numbers

[MonicaL]

There is possible mention:

Site Name Glasgow, 16-18 Argyle Street
Classification Shop (20th Century), Warehouse (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 3 Virginia Street; 18-30 Argyle Street; Marks And Spencer Warehouse

https://canmore.org.uk/site/146296/glasgow-16-18-argyle-street

Building (from picture on link above?) now appears to be listed? www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2284336

Monica

[MonicaL]

Capricorn, with your mention of the Vauderville Pictures Ltd, there is this:

Norman McLeod   Allan    - Granted permission in 1908 by Glasgow magistrates to open a venue at 28 Argyle Street comprising coin-operated phonographs, animated picture machines, and stereoscopes fitted with peephole lenses. He also received permission to open this entertainment on Sundays, with the assurance that only sacred music would be available to play. Allan's 'penny gaff' later became the site of the Vaudeville Picture House, which charged an admission fee of 3d for a programme lasting half an hour. Penny gaffs were relatively unusual in Scotland, perhaps because there were other forms of cheap entertainment available, and within a matter of weeks the Vaudeville had adopted the two-hour programme typical of other Glasgow houses.
https://earlycinema.gla.ac.uk/people/

Doesn't help with any lodging or boarding accomodation in the nearby buildings unfortunately 

Monica

[wickedwenchdee]

Capricorn, with your mention of the Vauderville Pictures Ltd, there is this:

Norman McLeod   Allan    - Granted permission in 1908 by Glasgow magistrates to open a venue at 28 Argyle Street comprising coin-operated phonographs, animated picture machines, and stereoscopes fitted with peephole lenses. He also received permission to open this entertainment on Sundays, with the assurance that only sacred music would be available to play. Allan's 'penny gaff' later became the site of the Vaudeville Picture House, which charged an admission fee of 3d for a programme lasting half an hour. Penny gaffs were relatively unusual in Scotland, perhaps because there were other forms of cheap entertainment available, and within a matter of weeks the Vaudeville had adopted the two-hour programme typical of other Glasgow houses.
https://earlycinema.gla.ac.uk/people/

Doesn't help with any lodging or boarding accomodation in the nearby buildings unfortunately 

Monica

Thank you Monica for that, it's so interesting to read. To be honest I don't think we will ever find out who he was. I think from now on i'll turn my attention to finding Williams Son.....another mystery for me!

Thank you so much for helping me.

Denise

[wickedwenchdee]

It was 30 Argyle street not 80. 😞

Sorry....I've put 80 instead of 30 in my post

The address reads 30/28 Argyle Street...Vauderville Pictures Ltd
The numbers down the left hand side are consecutive numbers

Thank you for searching for me, I think i'll have to give up looking for Thomas, I just don't think we will ever find him.

Denise

[sancti]

William Rodgers married Mary Josephine McManus 1916 in Gorbals

There is a birth registered 1918 in Gorbals for a William Rodgers

[Rosinish]

Denise...No need to give up!

We all have brick walls which in many cases can take yrs to knock down.

I'm wondering if going down the route of finding out which industries would have used an 'Electric Cranesman' may hold any clues?

The address on the birth 'seems' fictitious as it's not an address where someone would live from what has been found but the fact he had the decency to sign the birth makes me wonder if, as was mentioned earlier, the address did have another digit prior to 30 e.g. 430 which may have been misheard as 'Oh, 30' if he was lodging with someone?

It may be worth tracing the others I think it was Isobel had found living in Argyle Street for any clues such as marriage witness/death etc. with the same occ?

Annie