redscot wrote:Hello to all...Re: Richmond Park and Oatlands.
I understand that times move on and things change, but what they have done with building houses IN Richmond Park is just pure sacriligious to destroy our precious Oatlands. These councils are just so ruthless and so wasteful with taxpayers money, and also very cunning. I feel they need to get an enquiry set up to find out what else went on behind the scenes and expose these people who are usually only in the job for self greed. Each and every one needs to be put against a wall and shot for what they have allowed to happen.
I know we didn't have much growing up in Oatlands...but by god we were happy, and if could turn back the clock to a time in my life...it would be living in Oatlands.
I am visiting Scotland in May from Australia, but I can't go and look at Oatlands as it would just upset me, last time I saw it was 1969, so I'm sure it would shock me.
Rosemary
(redscot)
Hi again Rose,
Yes it's scandalous building houses on Richmond Park, if the private developers had their way they would build houses on every inch of the park, actually the Gorbals Admin posted an article from the evening Times in one of the postings on our page and you must have a look at it. Don't go and have a look at the new Oatlands [only my advice] because I did and it made me very depressed, I too hadn't seen it since the late 1960's and although I had saw images of it on the internet when I went up to Glasgow and went down the soo-side [1st time in 45 years] and I was hoping against hope some of the old buildings where I was born would still be there but alas no. Only the Hutchy bowling green was there but we have our memories to last us. Take care and God Bless.
I spent my formative years being taken to Richmond Park by my parents and Wider family members. The Rockery,The Cricket Pitch, The Ducksy,The Boats and playing football. I've got loads of photos of Oatlands on a disk but i don't know how to post them on this forum.
Adelphi wrote:I spent my formative years being taken to Richmond Park by my parents and Wider family members. The Rockery,The Cricket Pitch, The Ducksy,The Boats and playing football. I've got loads of photos of Oatlands on a disk but i don't know how to post them on this forum.
Hi Adelphi,
Would love to see you're photos of Oatlands, I was born in Fauldhouse street where big Bonnies and the steamie stood. All gone now except in our minds eye view and any photos that happen to be shown.
Adelphi wrote:I spent my formative years being taken to Richmond Park by my parents and Wider family members. The Rockery,The Cricket Pitch, The Ducksy,The Boats and playing football. I've got loads of photos of Oatlands on a disk but i don't know how to post them on this forum.
Hi Adelphi,
Would love to see you're photos of Oatlands, I was born in Fauldhouse street where big Bonnies and the steamie stood. All gone now except in our minds eye view and any photos that happen to be shown.
Danny
I've got photos of the old Steamie, as well as the boats on the ducksy. I've even got a photo of a schools football game being played in Rosebery Park ''circa 1970's'' I received an e-mail from one of the moderators on the new site and i'm hoping he'll help me get these pics uploaded soon.
Cheers Danny.
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Hope you enjoy your visit when you come over but go and see the Oatlands there is still a couple of landmarks the old church in Polmadie st still stands but it is derelict. The new houses are nice but like yourself I would have shot these people as I have said before that the parke were for the people not for these building companies to get rich.The graveyard in Caledonia rd. is still there it's a wonder they are not trying to take over it to build more houses
Amelia x
Was shocked to hear there are now houses in Richmond Park. I was born and raised across the street from it and have such great memories of spending days in the park. From the saunie pond, the swings and the rockerie, it just brings back a flood of memories. I can even remember one year the ducksie pond was frozen and I went ice skating on it. Was so sad when I read about this Sheila
Sometimes I feel I would like to think of how things used to be, especially in my memories. I would be so upset if I went there and hated what I was seeing...but I'll think about it.
Granny911 wrote:Was shocked to hear there are now houses in Richmond Park. I was born and raised across the street from it and have such great memories of spending days in the park. From the saunie pond, the swings and the rockerie, it just brings back a flood of memories. I can even remember one year the ducksie pond was frozen and I went ice skating on it. Was so sad when I read about this Sheila
Hi Shelia,
I can remember the ducksy pond freezing over too and sliding on it. in the swing park area there was a big slide and us boys would take an empty loaf of bread wrapper and sit on it sliding down so the "wax" from the paper would make us go faster.. The old Rutherglen Rd that we knew as weans is now long gone [but alive in our minds ], I visited the area for the first time in nearly 45 years last September and was shocked to see houses built in Richmond Park. I sat on the wee wall of the Hutchy Bowling green club and looked across the road to where Fauldhouse st once stood, that's where I was born n bred and felt like crying as my old street was gone and the old steamie and Bonnies. But hey what great memories of the soo-side
So it was you doing that with the bread wrappers on the chute! lol I took my wee cousin to the swing park after being warned by my Aunt not to, and he insisted he wanted to go doon the big chute. I let him and he went flying off it (guess you had just been there with your breid wrapper) it resulted in him getting a large goose egg lump on his forehead and me getting a whalloping off my aunt. Somehow the polis were called and took the two of us home. I had been barred from taking him to the park as a couple of years earlier I took him in his pram to the ducksie and some big boys (maybe that was you too! ) pulled the pram off me and flung it in the ducksie with him in it. A man went in and pulled him out and I got a whalloping for that as well! They can pull down the buildings but not the memories we all have of growing up in the Oatlands and Gorbals. Thanks for your reply Danny. Sheila
So it was you doing that with the bread wrappers on the chute! lol I took my wee cousin to the swing park after being warned by my Aunt not to, and he insisted he wanted to go doon the big chute. I let him and he went flying off it (guess you had just been there with your breid wrapper) it resulted in him getting a large goose egg lump on his forehead and me getting a whalloping off my aunt. Somehow the polis were called and took the two of us home. I had been barred from taking him to the park as a couple of years earlier I took him in his pram to the ducksie and some big boys (maybe that was you too! ) pulled the pram off me and flung it in the ducksie with him in it. A man went in and pulled him out and I got a whalloping for that as well! They can pull down the buildings but not the memories we all have of growing up in the Oatlands and Gorbals. Thanks for your reply Danny. Sheila
Hi Shelia,
I might have "waxed" the slide to make us go faster [boys will be boys] but it wizzny me who chucked the pram in the ducksie, I was too frightened my Da would have killed me for doing anything like that. Some of the "big boys" were right scallywags and a lot of them were looking for street cred for doing things like that Shelia. Do you remember just round the corner from Rutherglen Rd you had the Steamie and us boys and girls used to stand warming our hands on the "hot wall" or the spare ground beside the steamie where the boys would play fitba.
Sheila
) pulled the pram off me and flung it in the ducksie with him in it. A man went in and pulled him out and I got a whalloping for that as well! They can pull down the buildings but not the memories we all have of growing up in the Oatlands and Gorbals. Thanks for your reply Danny. Sheila