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City
Public Senior Secondary School 1947 class of
13yr olds
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March.2003,
Class photograph sent by Marion McCaig ( nee love ), New York, USA.
This school was in Glasgow's Townhead district , Marion's a Glesga
Pal and I am delighted
to put her class photo and school onto the website. ( See
Marion's mum's photo in Glesga Folk )
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(2001 photo David Bryson
ex-pupil 1954 )
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I am sure you will remember this Marion,
and bring back many memories for you......
the Girls entrance to the school from what
was once Canning Place
`City
Public School building photos
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| Top
Row
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1. James
Buckley
5. Harry McCaw |
2.
Gavin McLeod
6. |
3. ?
Charleton
7. Derek Findlay |
4.
8. |
| 4th
Row
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1.
5. Pat Duffy |
2.
James Urquhart
6. David McLaughlin |
3.
7. |
4.
8. |
| 3rd
Row
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1.
Mary Forbes
5. |
2.
6. |
3. Georgina
Ritchie
7. Joan Stewart |
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| 2nd
Row
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1. Margaret
Kerr
5. Morag Johnstone
9. Cathy Ferguson |
2.
6. Elsie ? |
3. Nan
Devine
7. |
4.
8. June Milby
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| Front
Row |
1. Colin
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5. Annie McGlinchey
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2. Cathy
Heath
6.
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3. Marion
Love |
4.Irene Munro |
Please
contact webmaster if you can put a name to a face.
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March.2003,
Marion McCaig ( nee love ), New York, USA.
"Thanks webmaster, I'm
so happy to be a Glesga Pal, as I love your site and visit often.
......the photo was taken around 1947 and I was about 13 yrs
old.
Our school stood next door to Allan Glen's but I believe both schools are
gone now, in the name of progress,
just the way a lot of others have gone
but still they can't erase them from our memories.
I used to be a relief manageress in Pullars of Perth, I was based in the
Sauchiehall St branch but whenever a regular manageress was off sick or
for holidays I would go and take her place wherever that may be Dunoon,
Troon, Helensburgh, Paisley and all round Glasgow, I saw a lot of places
but the work was the same no matter where I was sent.
I met my hubby Charlie in Feb. of '55 and that was it--we married in Aug
'55 (quick workers eh!) we settled in Clydebank and had 1 daughter and 3
sons before emigrating to USA in 1971. Our children married
and gave us 4 grandsons and 4 granddaughters and 4 of them have made us gt.
grandparents of 9, all Americans.
Life goes on and a long way from my roots in Bridgeton.
Thanks again for my new status, I will carry it proudly, LOL......Marion
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Extract
from messageboard March.2003,
Ronnie McPhee London, England
"Wance agin webmaster you hiv done yersell proud in
the excellent presentation of Marion, I'll bet she's dead chuffed. Aye
and yer right she looks an awfa nice wee lassie in her photograph, and is
likely noo a 'fine lookin' wummin'. City Public Senior School
eh! that is certainly posh, nae widwork ur houswifery lessons there then,
and the coat of arms badge, these were just things I could only dream
aboot when sittin wae the other galoots in a B class at Bernie, and me wae
ma erse hingin oot ma troosers.
Brilliant presentation Webmaister, well impressed."
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Extract
from messageboard March.2003,
Marion McCaig ( nee love ), New York, USA.
".....Being
impressed doesn't say enough for my feelings. The webmaister is truly a
genius. I was mesmerized when I saw the pictures of my old school, they
were so unexpected, that I went over them again and again. Funnily enough
I hardly recognised the old place, you see when I was there the school was
totally surrounded by tenements and somehow I got lost in them. It is
great to see my school as it really was.
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I had a wee warm feeling when I saw the
pictures and read the messages relating to Marion's old school, City
Public Senior Secondary School. I attended City Public (as we pupils
called it ) for five years, receiving my "Highers" in
1945, a few years before Marion arrived on its doorstep.
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