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I did speak to a planner a few years ago re Oatlands and I was told there were no plans for shops in the area
I think there were problems with the Cumberland Arcade over the years, it was demolished and not replaced, well apart for a few shops in Crown st

Hi Norrie,
I take you're point about there being trouble in the Cumberland Arcade and this might have persuaded the planners to think twice about building new shops in the regenerated Oatlands. Although I think they should have allowed for a "parking bay" in the streets for a mobile shop to attend to the needy and elderly as not every one is fit to get about or order their groceries online. I think I saw a shop or was it a hairdressers underneath the new home [just beside the Hutchy bowling green clubhouse] did you notice that Norrie or was it the estate agents office ?
Regards.
Danny.

Hi Danny, its belongs to the folk who are building the houses, a sales office

Hi Norrie,
Thanks mate, ah well looks like I was wrong again. Must get new glasses ha ha , thanks for the reply Norrie.
Regards.
Danny

Hi Danny, no bother, speaking as one who has made many mistakes, I never learn
Hope your keeping well

Hi Danny , Norrie , Gang
Just thought I would put in my "Tuppence Worth"on this subject although in my
defense I do not know the Oatlands area but I can speak as someone who used to deliver groceries and
fruit and Veg. in the late fifties early 60 s for pocket money.
The first bloke was called Bill Fairlie and he had converted an old furniture removals vehicle by cutting
two doorways at the side of the vehicle for customers to enter and leave . there was a counter with a
weighing machine and inside the vehicle was fitted top to bottom with timber framed racking to accommodate tins of beans , soup,peas, spaghetti,coffee jars ,packs of corn flakes plus many many more thing including fruit and veg spuds, etc. plus he also sold cigarettes .
The owner parked this vehicle overnight in a yard on Anniesland Road in Knightswood and his round then was mainly in "High Knightswood.on the west side of Glasgow . The first problem that I encountered
then was that I stayed in side where all the groceries were and if you hit a bumpy road or a sharp corner
tins of food and sometimes loaves of bread would rain down on top of me !!!
Ther was many others doing similar at the time there was a guy called Ernie Keenan in Lincoln Avenue and also a butcher doing another round but I am not sure that someone could make it work in today,s
cut and thrust world.
Ironically Danny when my sister who first post "Empty Beer Bottles " was aboutwas ill recently I was
able to go on line with Tescos and order her groceries and get them delivered to her door and iam in France and she is 70 years old living in Lancashire.!!!

Anyway Danny Iam not trying to be a" Kill Joy " but your idea about a little mobile vehicle going is
great in theory. !! ButI am not so sure it would take off.!!!


Best wishes and regards . Reg

Hi accroba, I remember the van delivery men for the 50s/60s when we moved to Milton, no shops at your doorstop.
We had Rolls, Fish and Chips, Parraffin, Bakers and Groceries all delivered by vans etc
Not forgetting the bookies runner

The grocer van was called Gingers, turned out he worked with my father painting and decorating at one time
Order goods from Tesco, from France to Lancashire, ah the joys of technology

When we came to Castlemilk in the early 70's we had vans/mobile shops come around all the time, we had the obligatory Ice cream van, a grocer van, a City Bakeries van, a fruit and veg van that came round at weekends. There was also a mobile chippy and a Van that used to come round selling ginger....Alpine and then Solripe. There was a few shops not far from us and the shopping centre was about 10 mins away. Castlemilk was known as a dry area cos there was no Pubs or Off sales. There was the Labour Club which was the only place you could get a drink. Interestingly the first pub they built was aptly named The Oasis... Maybe we were just lucky to have moved in the 70s but we didn't have to go without much for lack of a shop anyway.

Josie
Your mentioning City Bakeries in your last post reminded me of a similar mobile bakery .
i think it was called Hubbard,s and if my memory serves me well they were a brownish colour.
Ant my younger brother who was about twelve year old at the time and was an exceptionally good footballer had just bought a chocolate coconut snowball from the Mobile Hubbards van.that was parked in our street . He sat on the vehicles running board eating the cake and for some reason or another the driver
started the Engine and pulled away and my brother hung on to what was a vertical hand rail and I think he must have panicked and let go of the hand rail. The upshot was that he then got caught under the front wheel and was dragged for about fifty yards just before a junction and a member of the public managed
franticly drew attention to the driver and this made him stop and probably saved my brothers life . As it was he head to have about 50 stitches on his thigh and was fortunate not to have lost that leg.
it certainly curtailed his football career as that leg was never ever as strong as the other one .
Some children did used to hang on to the rear of the cart part of the Horse and Cart that used to deliver "Coal Briquettes to our street and then safely jump off . <the briquettes" were made from mixing
coal dust and glue and were square in shape. I believe the make of the Hubbards Van was a
Commer commercial type.? but not certain . Does anyone remember this company .? Danny thinking about your idea about a grocery van parked in a lay -by type situation is not such a bad idea .
as you get lots of Burger vans and Kebab Vans set up on Industrial estates and Big D.I.Y outlets.
May be to start with on a Monday , Wednesday& Friday ???
Not sure if I have spelling correct for Briquettes ??


Best regards Reg

Hi accroba, I remember Hubbards bakery, they had shops all over Glasgow
Just seen a photo from Great Western rd, taken in 1963 and it shows a Hubbards bakery and tea room

I had forgotten the ice cream and lemonade sellers that came around Milton