I took my Mum on a drive the other day to the old streets where our extended family used to live. Mary is 87. The shock of seeing that Hamiltonhill had vanished, its once busy streets now vast expanses of green grass and emptiness took a wee while to sink in. ‘It’s really sad’ Mary …
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Glasgow, Housing and Red Road – Another Scheming Failure?
The block housing asylum seekers at Red Road. Glasgow 2014’s proposed detonation of Red Road flats as entertainment had no appeal for sore eyes. The city always gets into a fankle when it tries to show off. Like the Workers’ City Group who argued with the organisers of Glasgow City of Culture in 1990 about …
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Peeny Roses
They always called them peeny roses. Elspeth’s big sister Jean looked after them in the sloping ‘L’ shaped tenement garden and that’s what she called them. The O’Haras didn’t bother with their garden on the opposite side of the stairs to the close like Jean did. Jean was an awful lot older than wee Elspeth, …
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