The road to "Castlemilk"

After the game yesterday, i took my wife and lad upto castlemilk to show the lad were i grew up,my old house and so on.

I noticed the high rise flats on Ardencraig road gone, forget the name of them, also my primary school gone, St Martins , the pitch from the school is still there but rundown,i drove up to St Martins chapel and to find it run down aswell, i was sad to see this apart from the flats been tore down and the roads in this area are shocking my beamer took a pounding.

Talk about "pot holes" there were holes on these roads that Giraffe's could play hide and seek in *

What does the Glasgow council say about this? is there other areas like this? any body from the Castlemilk area on here can shed any light on why there is no money being spent in this area ?

 

A lot places in Glasgow look like warzones, Possil, Drumchapel, Ruchazie and Springburn to mention but a few. Glasgow is home to 90 odd percent of Scotland's most deprived areas.

 

Your right i went through Springburn yesterday and that did not look healthy too
its sad we know about the east end and last week at hampden thought to my self i could live here which was Aiken head rd which i know is a bit upmarket as for Castlemilk were i grew up * shocking, the houses dont look at bad you can see there has been money spent there but needs more

 

I am from castlemilk, Mitchellhill flats were blown up in November 2005. All the closes had the outside of them redone aswell but i can't think of anything else they have done

 

the flats were called mitchelhill flats mate .i was raised in castlemilk aswell.i went to mitchelhill primary and grange secondary school .left school in 1980/81

 

Thats right remember now, i lived in them flats when i was wee i spent 10 years in 239 castlemilk drive went to St Martins and st margaret marys a left in 1982 somehow the place looks smaller :icon_mrgreen:

 

To be fair the council have spent quite a bit in Possil and Maryhill pulling down slum tenements and replacing them with newer ground level council houses (albeit cheap built), they`re a 100% improvement on what was there before. Still the same nutters living there though!

 

i was brought up in 214 castlemilk drive .small world eh..we must know of each other and be the same age then eh

il run some names by you see how many u know from your age group

davie and steven hennessey
mick tahaney
tam mcgurk

did u know these guys we hung around together

 

What part of Springburn did you drive through mate???

 

i was 13 when i left 2nd year at high school i dont know them names but hung around with these ppl

Steven and Gary Rooney alis wee ben and big ben
Tam Mcghee
Paddy Kerr
Danny walker
Charles Mc Hugh
Paul Mc Convill
Patricia and Eileen Mc Machon (twins) they had a big bro called Steven
John Gardiner


i am Mike Quigley my brother is Tam

i played alot of footy in the Grange hockey field which was behind our house the goals was right behind my window

i had a cousins down the bottom of the drive oppisite the road to the legion Billy Gallagher and 3 sisters

* is a small world

 

Did you ever work in Kwik Save at the Gorbal Caterpillar??

 

Am talking * it was not springburn i remember a safeway's under a bridge just near burnside which i always though it was springburn

 

No mate i left glasgow when i was 13 and went to SA

 

sorry to wander off topic, "beamer", cant you just say car?

 

i was talking with tam mcghee a few weeks ago ,we were in harry hoods pub ,i was at my ma and das 50th wedding aniversary an he was there with his own party of people,i was looking at him thinking i know that guy but cant remember his name.. i asked him and he remembered me and said tam mcghee..i lived right accross the road from the walkers i.e geo ,peter and tosh .

haha billy gallagher...his best mate was wee joe torrance who lived above him as billy lived bottom flat ,,my best mate at that time john welsh lived next door to billy, wee billy and joe were part of our group of friends ,billy will know me.

small world right enough

 

Nope i love motors me

 

Right it is,Tam McGhee was my brothers best pal,Billy was a few years older than me i i stayed at his place for a night about 6 year ago he lived in west muir rd hes married has 3 kids and is a chef have not heard from him for a while

was 214 in the square were the entrance to grange school was?

 

214 was about 5 closes down the drive from the square on the other side of the road..i lived 1 up on the right as you look from the street

 

Ok did you know a lad called Paul Hume? he lived some where oppisite you

 

yip ginger haired guy,who i heard is now a policeman..he had a white dog for years and a wee brother..i mentioned the henneseys in a previous post they lived top flat above the humes on the otherside of the landing,..the barries lived next door to the humes

its all coming back now ,im on a roll