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A site dedicated to preserving the history of the eastern districts of Glasgow, Scotland. Updated - 1st March, 2010. It's been quite a while since I have had the opportunity to update the web site, but I recently received an enquiry that has encouraged me to find the time to at least change the Introduction. 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 a collector called Leslie Durst. 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 March, 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
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.