Cumberland St Station and The Office bar

[margaretmcgettigan]

Hi Amelia...I googled the Renwick Church at the top of Cumberland Street and found this:

http://streapadair.smugmug.com/History/ ... &k=BWvzz5Z

You will have to highlight it, copy and paste it and see what happened to a lot of these beautiful buildings on Abbotsford place...What an absolute shame it was to pull all these architecturally lovely old buildings...Some people could not see beyond their noses as to what could be done with a renovation of them..

Hope all is well with you and yours...We finally got rid of the terrible heatwave here...It is still very humid but the sweltering heat is gone...Back in the eighties again...ahhhhh..

Margaret
gbya

[margaretmcgettigan]

Oh, Amelia, you can just click on the Renwick Church information...It did not highlight it when I pasted it but now I see it does it automatically when it is posted...Good to know.

[cockatoo]

Thanks for the link Margaret, There are some photo's I haven't seen before. I don't think it was their noses they couldn't see past it was the money. It was criminal what they done to the Gorbals, the idiots in the City Chambers, Lets be clear , It was the Labour Party who done it, nobody else. The history, community spirit. everything gone forever.

[amelia]

Hi Margaret they were brilliant photos and I saw the name of Thompsons dancing at the side of the building you went up a few stairs to get to the front door. I never knew anyone who went there would be good to know if anyone on here learnt to dance there.
I know the Diamonds at the Palace learnt people to dance as there was a bit above the dance hall that the learners went before the graduated to the main hall, but I never went to dancing although I can do the "Slosh"
Amelia

[Gorbolian]

i used to live on the corner of abbotsford place and cumberland street which you can see in the photo further on down from the renwick. we used to go to the renwick to the BB.s sometimes to pass the time. i also remember weddings taking place there and the scramble for money. I remember a lot of people who lived here, in the photo in the houses at the ground before the renwick lived the Dunlops. then next to the renwick on the other side the close had families by the name of, reillys, boyd, macnamaras. then on the next close which was ours you had a clothing shop on the ground floor at the corner.

Accross from the renwick was the lane leading to wellcroft place and i remember the paint factory at the top of wellcroft place to the left .

accross from the renwick you had the orange hall on the side of the lane nearer eglinton street, then you had a bakery that used to sell 6 jam tarts for 3d. further on up you had various motor shops and the highland school of motoring which used to have small dinky or corgi cars in the window, a close where a familyu called the orrs lived in and then the licensed grocers.

On the other side of the land across from the renwick, you had a company called Arbuclle Smith if I remember rightly then a close where lived The McDades, McFaddens who emigratged to canada, the McLeods freom the isle of uist. and then on the other side of the close at the corner of cumberland street and abbotsford place you had Taylor Reeson laboratory who were on the ground floor.

[freddy]

Hi Amelia. You were spot on with your Cumberland st. history. Do you remember the big "wummin with the glass eye who worked in AF Reids. And what about Miss Muffets, who sold stale "teabreid quite cheap.It was the stuff left over from Af Reids the day before.Needless to say there was always a big queue at Miss Muffets. Margaret Magettigan posted a brilliant photo of the area. Surreyboy.

[freddy]

fao Margaret Mcgettigan Brilliant photo of Cumberland st. at Eglinton st. Loved it.Thanks . Surreyboy.

[margaretmcgettigan]

For everyone that looked at the web site showing the Renwick Church on Cumberland Street and Abbotsford Place/Nicholson Street..well if you log on again, and look to the top of the page there is an area that you can click on and see much more of the old Gorbals before and during all the demolition..

It reads say 165-178 with < > marks on both side of the numbers...If you click on the symbol to the left it will take you all the way back to No.1 picture...Worth a look...
< 165 - 178>
Enjoy.

[accobra]

Hi Margaret,

Great pictures and picture no. 150 has taken me back to the mid fifties and me and my brother are hiding under the bushes of the three storey building and there is two elderly ladies at the top flat
3- up and they are trying to dissuade us from going into what I remember as the basement tenement ,
but nevertheless the run to this basement is rewarded with us going messages for the lady of the house
and there is a strong smell of cats in this basement and we get a penny each for going to the shops for this person . But we find out at a later date that the reason for us being chased away from this money
making enterprise was the fact that it was a house of ill repute and we were very quickly diverted from
this location and had to look for ways of earning a few pennies.!!!
May I say brilliant pictures and I could be there now hiding with my brother under that bush
waiting to make a run for the close .great memories.

[accobra]

Hi Gorbolion,
Interesting post and your mention of the "Scramble " took me back to the 70 's where I had the
privilege to give away my younger sister at The Old Rutherglen Road Parish Church and here was my
one and only chance to throw out some coins for good luck and tradition and in my haste to get there
and help my sister I left all my coins at the flat that I stayed at .I felt a right "meanie"as I thought back
to the times when I would fight for the threepenny bits and sixpenny bits etc. etc.