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Subject: Tenement life... Trossachs street in the 60,s lamp lighter and all Author: john cochrane [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:57:34 08/29/02 Thu In reply to: Story by Murdo Morrison about Yoker 's message, "MY TENEMENT STORY" on 14:40:14 05/12/02 Sun I remember growing up in trossachs street in the 60,s and have memories of the guy coming round at night to light thet steet lamps the gas ones i always remember going up the close late at night and used to get scared cause it was dark and always remember my mum would throw a sannie ut the windae......we lived next door to a man and his daughter was named delmadeans and there was a fish and chip shop down stairs from us this joined the two tenements together...then accross the road a wee bit there was the shoudries they were a pakistani family....just below our tenement tehre was an old off licence that had been lying abandoned for ages and we used to play in it all the time those were amazing times when i lived in the tenement and will be etched in my mind forever i have so many things that were so great and i would not have been brought up any other way ....i do realise that we were pooor and things did mean a lot to us even small things but we grew up happy and content with a great father and mother behind us glasgow tenement life was tough and made us whe we are today the real glaswegians if you lived in the tenements...you really experienced a real existance and you whole tenement was like one big family life you all hleped each other ....it is sad today that we can fly acccross the world ...yet we cannot walk accross the street to meet new neighbours .....that is why people are so scared today....john [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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