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Queen Mary Street School Class
of c1947 |
| Jan.2004. John Fleming sent in this class photograph. see
also his c1948 class photo |
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Top
Row
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1.
Billy Hardwood
6. |
2.
7. Billy Everard |
3. George
Gow
8. |
4.
9. |
5.
10. James Rooney |
3rd
Row
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1.
Matthew Smith
6.
11. |
2.
7. Ian Chapman |
3.
8William Goodfellow |
4.
9. |
5.
10. |
| 2nd
Row
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1.
6. |
2.
7. |
3.
8. Moira ? |
4.
9.Rita MacAtear |
5.
Janette ?
10. |
Front
Row
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1.
6. |
2.
Smith ?
7. |
3.
8. |
4.
Tom Brooks
9 John Fleming |
5.
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Please
contact webmaister if you can put a name to a face. |
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Pals
reunited after 36 years....thanks tae GlescaPals! |
Jan. 2004, e-mail, GlescaPal John Fleming,
South
Africa
don
Hi Wull Thanks for a great website it's good to hear about the old
times in Bridgeton.
When I was born in 1942 my parents Willie and Susan Fleming
lived at 96 Dunbar Street Parkhead.
My granny died when I was about 2 and we moved back into the house where
my father had grown up, 14 Marquis Street Bridgeton (low down left)
my sister was born round about this time. Our family, father, mother, my
younger sister, me and my mother's teenage brother and sister Tommy &
Mary Carmichael who had been orphaned and "boarded out" for some
time until my parents could take them in, all lived there. Not quite a
single end, we had a long lobby and a wee bedroom, we had to hang the bike
up on a pulley in the lobby and move all the kitchen furniture each night
to fold out the bed settee. No hot water, outside toilet and a weekly bath
at the Barrowfield baths (The Steamie)
We were there until about 1962 when we moved to a "new house" in
Barlanark although Tommy & Mary left earlier when each of them got
married. I served my apprenticeship as an engineer in Wm Rowan & Sons
in Soho Street and later worked in Lyles Carpet Factory in Fordneuk
Street.
I was married in 1964 and returned to my own house at 23 Marquis Street
(1up right) my Glesga Pal Ronnie McPhee installed our white sink and ascot
hot water geyser we stayed there for just over a year before leaving
Glasgow for good. In 1965 we moved to Kendal in Cumbria where my first
daughter was born, we stayed there until 1967.
We moved to Durban South Africa and stayed for the next 31 years, my
second daughter and grandson were born there.
Ronnie McPhee and I exchanged a couple of letters and lost touch sometime
around 1968 until I saw his contributions to this site. We came home
on holiday at regular intervals and I always found time to visit Bridgeton
to walk or drive around the old haunts and see what had changed.
On our permanent return to Scotland in 1998 we moved to Ardpeaton, a small
collection of houses along the shores of Loch Long near the village of
Cove about 23 miles north west of Helensburgh in Argyll & Bute where
we still live.
My sister Anna and I both went to Queen Mary Street School, Anna
moved on to John Street school and I went to Bernard Street
school. She still lives in Glasgow in Mosspark.
Webmaister : well John you've got yer money's
worth there pal! Quite a tale.
Nice to hear once again that GlescaPals has brought
old pals together again after 36 years!
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June
2008, Jack Dougal. Beith, Ayrshire,
Scotland,
Queen Mary
St.c1947, 2nd Row (9) Rita Macalear , also c1948 front Row (6).
Rita lived in same close as me in
Avenue St
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Queen Mary Street building is now a nursery school and also houses
various community groups. |
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