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A site dedicated to preserving the history of the eastern districts of Glasgow, Scotland. Updated - 1st July, 2010. I don't have the opportunity to update my site as often as I used to. However, if you have any particular enquiries, I'm more than happy to try to deal with these.
Jean Graham has sent the above photo - it shows a Sunday School picnic organised by the now gone Carntyne St. Michael's Church, Edrom Street, Shettleston, c.1959. Jean's grandmother is in the centre of the group. Do you recognise anyone?
John Robertson has been in contact. He is trying to compile a history of the old Telephone Exchange which sits in Cubie Street, Mile End and is now used as a Royal Mail delivery office. Below is a photo of the Exchange in 1974.
If you have any recollections of the place or its locale, either from having lived nearby or having worked there, please contact me at eastglasgowhistory@hotmail.com and I'll pass this along to John.
Hopefully, someone may also be able to assist Leslie Durst. Below is an illustration of a "sampler" which depicts Bridgeton Public School by one Mary Craig and completed in May, 1845. It's a lovely piece of work and currently belongs to collector Leslie. Those of you who lived in Bridgeton prior to 1966 may recall it facing onto the Main Street, located between two tenements - the one to the south housing McKellar's Butchers, the "Wee Royal" and Gizzi's Cafe. All I can recall to the north was a ladies garment shop! Those of you who attended John Street Secondary might recall actually having been in the building as it was part of the school, the upper floor being used for art classes. Leslie is looking for additional information and, hopefully, a photograph or drawing of the building. So, anyone who can help, Leslie would be grateful if you could write to;
Thanks too, to Tony McCann of Ontario, Canada for his memories of Tollcross;
"This was my first class picture taken about 1950 on the "terrace" of the old Vale of Clyde football-ground. St. Joseph's school, with the parish church on the upper floor, is in the background. Demolished many years ago. I remember thinking it was normal for everything to be coated in red dust from the Colvilles steel-plant whose slag-tippers would light up the sky at night... And I remember Sanny's on Causewayside St or Miss Jack`s where we would spend our pennies, or better still, up to Tollcross Road for an ice cream at Capaldi's or Greco's cafe."
at: www.hillhay.co.uk/book.htm
If you have written information you would like to post - contact me for an address. Any photos you have of social events or of your district would be appreciated too and would be returned after scanning. Remember to refresh your pages or you may miss any updates. Check the information section at the bottom of each page; it should indicate the date of the update - if it doesn't, refresh your screen. For each month's update, have a look at "What's New". It will provide you with a summary rather than working your way through the entire site. If you wish to provide any information or even articles for inclusion, have any comments to make, or experience any difficulties in using the site, please let me know me. Otherwise, I hope you find the site informative and entertaining. With best wishes, Gordon Adams
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NOTES: Updated for 1st July, 2010. The location of this site may vary with the availability of web space. However, it can always be reached by searching for the domain names; www.EastGlasgowHistory.com or www.EastGlasgowHistory.co.uk or www.GordonAdams.com or www.GlasgowHistory.co.uk Any comments you wish to make about this site can be sent to EastGlasgowHistory at Hotmail.com Replace the word "at" with the ampisand symbol "@" and remove spaces between the words. I have started to use this to cut down on the amount of junk mail that arises from website trawlers which gather e-mail addresses. Please indicate "East Glasgow History" as the subject of your e-mail to avoid exclusion as spam. Users of AOL please note that I seem to have difficulty in replying to your enquiries. If you make your enquiry through the Comments section I am can respond more easily, as can others. Please note that copyrighted material should not be reproduced in any format without the consent of the author.
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Welcome to East
Glasgow History
Does
anyone have any congregational histories of Glasgow churches? There must
the thousands out there. I've started collecting them to try to preserve
them. If anyone has any, could you please contact me? My e-mail
address is given at the bottom of this page.
Does anyone have photographs of Edrom
Street in Shettleston from pre-1968? Pamela Carroll is looking for photos
of her birthplace. Let me know if you can help. The photo to the
left is of the picture house, the Palaceum, which was located in the street.
It
has been several years since I wrote some of my own articles for this
site. Father Doherty of St Joachim's RC Church has provided an update
following ongoing changes to the church since then, and this can be found under
the Churches Section - St Joachim's Revised.
I
see that Hill & Hay the printer still has copies of my Bridgeton &
Dalmarnock book which was reprinted a few years ago. I have actually
reproduced the book here on the site (see Books & Articles) but if you are
interested in obtaining a copy here is a link to their website.
I have had quite a few
enquiries about family history. Genealogy is not something I know a great
deal about, but am more than happy to include recollections or specific queries in the
"Family
History" Section. For further guidance, I have included several links
to genealogy sites in "Site Links."
The Tempus publication on
Glasgow's eastern districts I worked on last year has been
published. It is called "Glasgow East" and is in paperback,
consisting of 128 pages of about 220 captioned illustrations. The
book should be available through most large bookshops in Glasgow or by ordering
it directly from the publishers - Tempus Publishing Ltd. If you have any
difficulties in obtaining a copy, contact me. 
Tony
Jaconelli (See Books on Sale) has been in touch to let me know that the Shettleston
History Group has produced a small booklet - "Personal Memories of
Shettleston - Or a View of the Far East (of Glasgow that is)." For a
copy of this, and for details of when and where the group meet, more information
is included in the Books on Sale and Site Links sections.