I now live in Brydekirk village but I'll never forget Govan. I also went to the Glasgow City Mission which was in Kintra Street, how I loved my childhood. I also remember the candy apple man and rag man, I also remember at the top of Greenfield Street as a wee boy of 8 watching a horse drawn Beatties bread wagon relieving itself, what a flood lots of great memories. Around this time heroin dealing was rife in Govan, particularly in an area called Moorepark, which was nicknamed Wine Alley. Don't think I enjoyed my time at Govan High, who did but I remember the english teacher Johnny Duncan, Jock Reiburn (maths), who was strict but gave me a good basic knowledge of algebra which stood me in good stead for my future in engineering. the 550 tenancies available, only 33 (16%) were identifiably from Govan itself. Everyone used our street for roller skating, we called it thd smoothie! She got married in 1956 to my grandfather Robert. I was born in Govan in 1930 and went to Saint Constantine's Elementary School and then on to Saint Gerard's in 1941, I was at St Gerard's until 1946. 102m The Govan Shed .
Life in wine alley | CITY STROLLS Non-governmental organisations working in the field such as the Church, charitable organisations, etc., have for a long time advocated Community Planning or management of the urban environment as the best solution to this problem of how to give a better quality of life to many of the citizens of our country. Damer (who lived for six months in the scheme) wanted to find out how and why such places came to exist, and what could be done to help them. Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. Darners later thoughts on a solution to the schemes problems were that it could be found in Community Planning for, as he says, members of the underclass are not helpless and passive victims of structural circumstances. Drumoyne primary it was, a year after my big brother Robert started (about 53) then on to Govan High School, that was the one which caught fire when I was due to sit my O levels (no excuses). Hullo! Community planning began in the rapidly industrialising 19th century cities of Great Britain and America where reformers and well-wishers wanted to ameliorate the appalling living conditions of the working classes. Good times we had, wonder where they all are now and if they remember me. Local people were also too scared to speak out for fear of reprisals. Wall furniture and coverings, clothing, beds and bedding, carpets and furniture were badly affected by fungi while many of the inhabitants suffered physical illnesses related to the damp atmosphere, financial anguish at the cost of replacement and (in some cases), mental problems brought on by the worry caused by the above problems in the first place! It meant that the police had two key surveillance points, one in Wine Alley itself and a second from the high-rise. I remember two days before we left in 1963, I took her to the Govan Fair, and that was the last one I ever saw. Looking at Govan when it was a village, and film of how it grew into a town, we felt very proud of being born and raised in dear auld Govan. One of his best customers was a former police officer who had been thrown out the force due to his heroin addiction. The idea behind the hotel was to employ local people and to draw in money to the area. Contact Us. I learned to play tennis in the Elder Park which stood by me for I played the game for the next 60 years wherever I landed. However, in 1989 the same area was one of the most crime-ridden and deprived in Scotland. "[13], By the early part of the 19th century, Govan was rapidly losing its rural appearance and assuming the character of a town with the development of new industries and factories, including Reid's Dye Works and Pollok's Silk Mill. Used to have a friend called Theresa Moody who died quite young. Curtis Govan, 23, was convicted in July of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint, simple assault, resisting arrest,.
Digital Stories | Reminiscences Houses are places to live in, either for one person or several. [23], It was parodied by the BBC sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt. I believe that the buiding was demolished due to a structural problem that would not be able to be easily remedied. Classification Housing Estate (Modern) Alternative Name (s) Moorpark Housing Estate; 'wine Alley'. Saturday afternoons were for the matinees at one of the four movie halls; Lyceum, Plaza, Elder and Vogue. Many of the latter were too poor, ignorant and disorganised to remedy the situation themselves, and so the earliest community planners or social agencies necessarily undertook the first initiatives for planning and providing for people. Gran was Annie Murphy but her dad died when she was 4 and her mother remarried John Johnston and went on to have a huge number of children - and as we research the family, we keep finding more. The area was parodied in the BBC sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt, though episodes were usually filmed elsewhere. Just answering Margaret Fletcher's post below. Zabudli ste daje na prstup k tu? Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |.
81 Albums for you to enjoy : - Sunny Govan Memories | Facebook I was wondering if anyone had any information on the McSherry family? I went to Govan High school and Fairfield Primary school, I worked at MacDonalds biscuit factory then went to Toronto with my husband Dan Slavin, I miss my wee town, it will not be same anymore. I was shown the door and advised to join the cubs, which I did, but I would have enjoyed being the 1st Lifebhoy. It was very hard during the war for our mother as our brother was three years older and our father was a shipyard worker, working nightshift. I thought you wrote "hides in a fridge and dodges an erection!" . Jackson had only just taken charge of the CID at Govan, having left his post as head of Strathclyde Polices serious crime squad. Fond memories include falling in the Elder Park pond and breaking my collar bone, trying to do the fish and chips, building gang huts in the air-raid shelters and raking the middens. I used to go to Jack's Bakers on a Saturday morning for a dozen rolls and half a dozen teabread and I still got change from a half a crown (12.5 pence), happy days! The church of Govan was a prebend of Glasgow. I remember Vogue would show two part Westerns that made us come back the following Saturday to find out who won the fight, there was also an entertainer named "uncle Harry" who would go up on the stage when the movie was over and ask us to wave our white hankies that we were asked to bring, we would all stand up and sing "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag" before we left. The layout suited their operations as there were only two ways in and out - making it easy to spot the police. Govan (/vn/ GUV-n; Cumbric? The police discovered an empty flat on the eighth floor which would give them a birds eye view of the entrance to Burnsides tenement flat close. On the other hand, a government that takes no heed of the community at large fails also. Their powerlessness in this matter soon became clear when Moorepark was deliberately targeted as a dumping ground for Glasgows homeless, those on low incomes, and people with few housing points who were enabled to jump the waiting list if they accepted a house in the scheme. There is absolutely no hiding from the fact that no Section 30 is the bullying action of a . Alley & Vine will be ready for outdoor and indoor dining once allowed, but until then, customers can order online or by phone for takeout and curbside pickup. But then officers were based in a more forbidding Victorian building about a mile away in Orkney Street. When all my pals joined the Lifeboys I went along too for 2 weeks, I think the hall was on Portman or Middlesex Street. The area was originally a country estate which contained a mansion house, Moore Park, which was built in the early 19th century for the Hagart family, to plans prepared by the architect David Hamilton. From 1815 onwards, a total of 67 men and four women were hanged at the Glasgow Green site, which was once known as Jail Square. I would say about 90% of them never stayed in the winey they probably stayed kintra st, briton st, brighton st or clynder st etc but never the winealley. We went back to Govan until we could get passage, and I attended Bellahouston Academy. He also complained about the abusive term Wine Alley, which was always quoted by officialdom whenever Moorepark scheme came under discussion My brother and I would wait for the coal lorry to come round the corner and hang onto the back of it as it drove up the street. 100m D.C Hair&Beauty . Somehow the government cannot understand that external improvements can only benefit any dilapidated area by not only improving its external image but also by giving the local residents a sense of Well-Being. It was just before I packed in this job that I met Sean Damer when he came to our house to some of the family in 1974. My father "served his time" in the Thermotank then for many years was a policeman in Plantation Street. The authorities plan for the scheme started going wrong when they decided (without consulting the locals who lived in Govan) to house it mainly with outsiders or people who came from areas other than Govan.
7285 Hedgerose Drive, Cumming, GA, 30028 PropertyShark My father was called up at the beginning of the War and my mother died when he was in Europe, I went to live with my grandparents on Wee Logie Street, I was 2years old and spent the rest of my childhood there until 1956 when I came to Canada with my grandmother to live with my uncle (my mum's young brother).
Wine Alley Open at Woodin Creek Village You never forget these things, but what great days and what character building it was. The two men, working for up to 18 hours at a time, had to be smuggled out before dawn each day. Daddy Boyd who used to wear his academic gowns on official occasions which I to this day found hard to understand as none of the other teachers ever wore them. Community organisation.
Glasgow Tower - Glasgow - WorldPlaces I remember my mum and dad and telling me how Govan was full of works, tenements, shops and pubs and how it was a vibrant place, this was very different from 1970s Govan that I grew up in, instead it was like a town after the blitz, I remember large areas of spare ground where the tenements and shops once stood, I remember playing in the old derelict tenements and works and in the rubble of demolished tenements, in the old tenements in Orkney Street we pretended to pour pints in the old Albert Bar. 7 Markus, 1993, p. 163 : Gwovan[3]? Sources I attended Harmony Row School and Hills Trust Primary. Moreover, there will be no demolition or destruction of any part of Govans heritage on the contrary the important Iron Age site of Doomster Hill will be marked with grass, and not encroached upon by the new housing while a special corridor will link it with Govan Old Parish Church, which is one of the earliest Christian sites in Britain. I cleaned it up and he must have been watching, as he came back out to see if I had done well. Thus, Damer saw that this decision of loading more of the socially deprived into an existing deprived area, only added to Mooreparks growing problems of joblessness, poverty, depression, drunkenness and crime. One flat was chosen in Wine Alley and a second across the road in a collection of tower blocks called Iona Court.
No-Go Britain: Where, what, why - The Independent Govan covers a huge part of Glasgow's Southside and is famous the world over for its ship building and football team. Darners second criticism was that the Tenants Association in the scheme had no local leadership or community say over who came into the scheme. I had to leave early as I was going to a residential orchestral camp but I was so heartbroken at the shop closing, I didn't want to miss a moment of that last day. Very fond memories. In its turn, this attitude helped create the malignant tales about people who lived there as being nothing but thieves, layabouts and drunks. My granny Flora McFadyen was one of the oldest and longest residents in the Wine Alley. Beforesentencing, judge Lord Caplan told Burnside: ''You have been a significant dealer in a dreadful trade and the courts have seen the havoc it causes among young persons. Contents Where Were Hanged In Glasgow? Instead, it referred to the popularity of cheap and powerful tonic wines particularly with young people - the vast consumption of which would often lead to violence and disorder. Drug and alcohol abuse was a widespread problem and unemployment stood at 30% - three times the national average. 99m New Cafe India Govan . Later that year Burnside was handed a 12-year prison sentence at the High Court in Glasgow following an 18-day trial, while his three associates got terms of between five and seven years. They suggested that the hill may have been a 12th-century Norman motte. It was dedicated to St Constantine, who had been buried at Govan. Someone took me to the Orkney Street Police Station. Govan is served by Govan Subway Station, Ibrox Subway Station and Cessnock Subway Station on the Glasgow subway system. In the Wine Alley, I loved the people more than anything. Otherwise, unless there is agreement between authority and community, issues like social segregation will never go away unless something is done is because the housing system (and the way it operates) encourages the separation of the rich and the poor. Encouraging families to participate in the community and to use local facilities and services Ensuring that the voice of those living in poverty is heard 2 Markus, 1993, p. 148 As I recall they sold very trendy tops marketed as Trendy. contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. 5 The planning process commonly involves the juggling of conflicting interests in such a fashion that it is agreeable to all interested parties at least, no one side has to sacrifice itself unjustly. Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. Here in the alley, you will find tasting rooms such as Truth Teller Winery, Baer Winery, Ancestry Cellars, Adam's Bench and the office of Woodinville Wine Country. Knowing a house which was empty he pre-emptively sought approval from the council to use it as part of the operation. Marconi Electronic Systems and its Marconi Marine unit were sold to British Aerospace in 1999 to form BAE Systems. In 1885, the yard moved further west to its present site and was reorganised as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd. Govan Old Parish Church was rebuilt in 1762, 1826, and again 1884-1888. I remember a chemist called Brays on Govan Rd. I had never seen one before. In Great Britain, community planning has evolved and not only has it kept its identity, but it has also retained its application as a primary vehicle through which social change is enacted at a local level, by members of the community acting together to improve the lifestyle of the group as a whole. Following the five convictions, the man who led the investigation, detective superintendent Joe Jackson, received several letters from grateful Wine Alley residents. I didn't open my mouth, I was sure I was going to jail. Only a few years into it, faults like dampness had begun to appear in the tower blocks of the Laurieston/ Gorbals project, which rapidly turned into a disaster area. Editors' Code of Practice. Our first daughter was born in 1962, and then when she was six months old, we went to Toronto, Canada. I look forward to reading further. Govan was then one of 15 police divisions in the former Strathclyde Police and accounted for 20% of all homicides in the force. Impressed by what they had done, the European Community allowed an application for major funds, which matched by the City Council (and oth adherents), to such an extent that another 36 blocks in the estate were rehabililitated in the same fashion as the prototype.8, At this point, some may ask, if the residents of such a community could do so mutch themselves, why is authority necessary for community planning? One thing is clear about Woodinville's Woodin Creek, it is very dog friendly! [24], Despite these developments, there were numerous older buildings around Govan until quite recently, most notably the terraces and tenements situated around Govan Road. People lived with the inconsistency in the records. I remember the Neptune Street bakery was always flooded and full of cats but people would still queue up outside it. When the car stopped at lights in Helen Street it was surrounded by the surveillance team who arrested the driver and seized the heroin which had a street value of 50,000 - worth 125,000 today. I would so love to hear from you if you do. There I was, short hair, snotty-nosed from crying and eating an ice cream cone. Conecteaz-te. My family lived at 100 Harmony Row, Govan until I was 10 (born 1953), I lived there with my father Guido Gonnella, my mom Susan, brother William and sisters Helen Marie and Susan also lived with us. Govan is served by community radio station Sunny Govan, broadcasting on 103.5FM to the city of Glasgow and surrounding districts, discussing local issues and providing advice, and with diverse musical output covering soul, hip-hop and reggae. If there is anyone out there that remembers me please contact me :). It arrived at a house in Liverpool and then left a short time later to head back to Glasgow, arriving about midnight. Then the place just went to pot. I remember that when he told me that he had studied at university and that what he was now doing was his job I laughed at his education and his job. Living Dangerously in Govan by James McDonald. It was like growing up in a wasteland! If I could I would have bought many! Built in the early 1930s by the 1970s the Wine Ally had developed a fearsome reputation, the council "modernised" it and tried to reintroduce the original n. The owner later came in with home-made tablet for all of us. Alley & Vine. Not Now. I was born In Cowie Street, Kinning Park and as Pauline noted earlier there was indeed a pub on it's corner called Grants Bar. My sister and I were born the year before the second world war at Montrose nursing home in Govan. They were, however, very much a part of the physical landscape that became Renfrewshire. Ther were many menswear shops such as Jackson the Tailor and John Collier. Naw, he was told, but we have a wee boy in the back. Through the ages people have lived in houses, building them according to the climate, topography, the material available, and the social and cultural ideas of the time.
Glasgow | Govan | Central Masterplan & Urban Fabric | Page 4 My Aunt Marg and Cousin Debbie still live in Govan. Helen Dunlop and I have kept in touch all these years, she is only one month younger than me and lived across the street, therefore we have known each other all of our lives. What a memory. Her name was Mary Murray. I remember at one time there were thirteen of us staying in the house including the lassie across the street who came to stay for a night and more or less remained there for about five years.
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