Hi Amelia,
Many thanks for your concern but we are fine but like everyone else we share the deep
sadness that these barbarous acts have caused..
My wife and I are both fine and although we live quite along way from Paris you just never know
where those crazy people are going to pop up. We all ...

Hi Cockatoo,

I am in France so not that far away . !!
I just looked back at your reply about John Pettigrew who was my older brother Billy's best pal. :)
Our family had moved to Knightswood in 1956 . John cycled over to see my brother from the south side and the last time that I remember ...

Hi Jimbo ,

I meant Donald Trump.!
The guy who wants to be the next President of the USA.!!!

Regards Reg

i Jimbo'
We visit my brother in law who lives in Straiton at last twice a year and do some shopping in Ayr.
It would be good to meet up sometime when we are over from France so if you let me have a contact e mail I can thank you personally for your help for some of my enquiries on the site ...

Hi Jimbo,

Many thanks for your post and apologies for getting back to you . Although I am unable to vote in Scotland my birth place it does not stop me from being a tourist and I spent nearly 4 weeks there
visiting family etc. I spent 5 brilliant days in Plockton and it was brilliant. seeing ...

Hi Cockatoo,
Apologies for delay in replying to your post but I seem to dip in and out .Sounds like I am going
for a swim . :D John Pettigrew was a fairly slim guy and he definitely had a brother called James and I also think there was a sister but I only ever met the two boys.!
They lived at 100 ...

Hi Danny ,
Hope you and everyone on the site are well.??
It is only an observation but the the reason for the ghostly quietness on the site be anything to do with the fact that
maybe we have all "run dry " on the memories . By that I know that Iwas struggling to bring to the table anything new ...

Hi Debido,
Like Danny I am unable to give you concrete evidence about James but what I can tell you is
in about the mid - fifties I moved from the Gorbals to Knightswood and I knew a family a couple of doors
along at number 390 Dyke Road. They were called McLaughlin I cannot remember the fathers ...

Hi Danny &Gang

Ah yes the "Brutality of visiting the Dentist. I dont recall actually visiting a Dentist in the Gorbals but
but "Plean Street" in Scotsoun was my first Dentist experience and you would upstairs sitting on what was like an old
church "Pew" and a loud Buzzer would go and you would ...

Hello Don ,
Forgot to say Kitty Connolly's Maiden name was Paton.? That was the connection and my mother and her were
quite friendly and my aunt Kit would often come round to our house for a cigarette and a "good old Blether".

Take care and regards Reg