Your too kind Amelia . And Sheila Danny and Reg, thank- you all for your sentiments. Believe me it does help . Take care everone Freddy

Hi Chinas Just out of the Golden Jubilee after a quadruple by-pass, still not 100 per cent yet. But all this talk of mince and totties and cabbage and ribs will certainly help. Surreyboy.

Amelia !. Have you been at the shortbread again? Take care. surreyboy

A very happy new year to the admin staff and everybody who participates in gorbals anecdotes. Should auld acquaintance be forgot....................

Hi Chinas A torch that could light up three different colours. Probably only cost about three and a tanner, but it was great while it lasted. Surreyboy.

Hi Rose. A penny vantas was a very weak raspberry flavoured drink which we used to buy from Sadies chippy. She made them up herself on the premises and their was no lid or label on the bottle. Would`nt be allowed to day. Surreyboy.

An iced drink made with American cream soda was a special treat in the Red Star café with it`s high backed ornate wooden seats and cold Italian marble tabletops. But a penny vantas from Sadies chippy at the corner of South Portland street could be just as good.A very merry Christmas to everyone at ...

Hi chinas . Loved John`s story about the woodbine packet.I was at sea in the merchant navy when the president was assassinated. The year before that I was on a ship named RMS Essequibo just off Cuba which America was blockading at the time.American jets used to dive bomb the ship for identification ...

hi Danny and everyone. You got me thinking about there being no wally closes in the gorbals .I can`t think of any.There was certaintly none in my own street. Rena Smith must have been a right toff. Regards to all. Surreyboy

Hello there Chinas. When I saw the subject "Wallies", Ithought we were talking about posh closes. It turns out to be Amelias teeth.You are right Amelia about Florence st. clinic. The very mention of the name struck terror into the heart of every wean in the gorbals.However, there was a few dentists ...