Tag: Glasgow

  • Visiting Aunt Susie

    In the late 1970’s, before I met my wife, she was living in a flat in the West End of Glasgow. Not far from where she lived, in Dudley Drive, lived her Aunt Susie. The road that she lived in is made up of a row of Glasgow tenements, four stories high, and very typical…

  • The Swinging Sixties

    This is a continuation of my stories about the history of 7 Earlspark Avenue in Glasgow. It had nine owners but changed hands only seven times because it was inherited by a brother or a spouse. I and my wife are the seventh owners. This week I have come to the tail end of ownership…

  • Plotting the Site of my House

    Where did it all begin? To find out I have arrive at the Glasgow City Archives based in the Mitchell Library. In the pre Covid Lockdown days it was possible to be able to walk in, have a discussion with an Archivist and have documents and  other material fetched from the basement and delivered to…