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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: FintryGirl on Sunday 05 October 08 12:30 BST (UK)
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Hi,
I recently lost my father and the previous 18 months I spent trying to find him his family. I did quite well with help from lots of you, I gave him an 80 page book for Christmas of proven facts of his family (he was an orphan by the time he was 9). It gave my whole family such a sense of where he came from. Now my quest is to continue to add to this history.
I am looking for anyone who knew anything about Crowhill Rd in Bishopbriggs from about 1928 (when my father was born at 59 Crowhill Rd) until 1937 when his mother died. Are there any census records of 1930's??
Sancti sent me this link about Bishopbriggs
http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/bishopbriggs/Crow%20Tavern%2002.html
which is very good in modern times. But now I am looking for old photos of the buildings in this area, I have never seen a picture of my fathers mother I am hoping that somewhere someone might have this elusive photo - maybe a family from this neighbourhood. Her name was Phyllis Gray married to Walter Gray (Coalmerchant - Govanhill), she worked at the Kelvinhall as a ladies room attendant, he had a sister Lily Gray and a brother Walter, my dads matronly aunt Emma Cobb lived with them and she watched my dad while his mother worked. Aunt Emma would take him twice a week to the picture show - so I would imagine with would be in this area? and then she used to get him a poke of sweeties and in the winter a poke of mushy peas, I wish I had listened more now while my dad told this story maybe he mentioned the name of the picture show and the sweetie shop. My fathers mother also knit fairisle sweaters at night by the light of the fire for extra money. If any of this triggers something for anyone I would be glad of any information about this area.
Thanks
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In 1932 the town saw the opening of its first (and only) cinema, The Kenmure. Located on Kirkintilloch Road it had an impressive towering facade and a single auditorium with capacity for 1000 patrons. Eventually the clientele dwindled after the arrival of television (in 1953) and by 1958 a decision was made to close it down. It lay derelict for a number of years, before being demolished to make way for the Churchill Way shopping centre which was constructed in 1962. The entrance to the cinema was where the Remax estate agency now stands.
http://www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/scotland/bishopbriggs.html
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Hi Sancti,
You are an old faithful, thanks for the link to the old cinema now that you mention the Kirkintilloch Rd that is the name he always mentioned.
Is there any census of 1930's as to who lived at what address?
Is there a good link to information on the Kelvinhall ?
Thanks again already printed the picture of the cinema off and will put it in my family history book. :)
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silent film of Glasgow in the 30's
http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=1324&search_term=kelvin&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
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This cinema would have been a few minutes walk from his home in Calder Street and Aikenhead Road
http://www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/glasgow/govanhill.html
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1901 is latest available census for Scotland at the moment.
Maybe you'll be able to find something here- lovely old photos of all sorts of local sites:
www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitchell
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Thank you so much for these sites, I am very interested in the areas of Aikenhead Rd and Calder Streets from 1928 to 1937.
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My Great Aunt Alice Rice owned a sweetie shop in Bishopbriggs, just a stones throw away from Crowhill Road in Springburn Road. They have demolished it now, you can see why in the cutting attached. Maybe your father got his poke of sweeties here. It was in the family for many years as her mother owned it before she did. It was called J. Rice. See attached picture.
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Hi Fintry Girl ( I know Fintry....especially the Loup!!) Thanks for your reply but I am new to this and I received an error message saying I wasn't allowed to reply to you via personal message so I hope you can get this as part of the thread.... not sure what I've done wrong!!. That is not my Great Aunt Alice in the picture who owned the shop with her mother, but it is her sister (another Jean) and she went on to own a shop on the Great Western Road called Jean Megahy Antiques and in fact I think it might still be there but is now a book shop. I went back a couple of years ago and it was wonderful because they hadn't changed anything.
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Sweet Rice- what a lovely picture of the old shop and welcome to Rootschat. You have to make a few posts before using PM system here (anti-spam measure) so if you post a reply here again then you should be able to send PMs.
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Thank you for the welcome aghadowey and for the advice. I understand now. It's wonderful to be able to exchange stories and photos on here. My family lived in the Bishopbriggs Kirkintilloch area from around the mid 1800's. I had connections with the area right up until my mother died in 2001. I have another attached photo here and I would love to know where it was taken, is there a particular area of the site specifically for photos? This one is of my great great grandfather Lawrence Barclay and his wife Mary Young (on the right of the photo)
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You could try re posting the photo on this board 'Photograph Restoration and Dating': www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,298.0.html
Monica :)
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Hello,
I saw your old post 2008 re., Crowhill Road.I`m sorry that I can`t help you in your search,however,did your family ever mention a family called Callan sometimes known as Cullen.
They lived in Huntershill house at the top of Crowhill Road.My grandfather was known as Harry Callan (Cullen).
I would love to see old photographs of Crowhill Road.
John.
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My Great Aunt Alice Rice owned a sweetie shop in Bishopbriggs, just a stones throw away from Crowhill Road in Springburn Road. They have demolished it now, you can see why in the cutting attached. Maybe your father got his poke of sweeties here. It was in the family for many years as her mother owned it before she did. It was called J. Rice. See attached picture.
This is my grt Aunt Jean in the pics , June Barclay x
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Please get in touch xxx
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who do you want to get in touch.
John.
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It's okay, John. Sweet Rice and darkeyes05 have now been in touch with each other :)
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Hi. My name is John Hayes and I was born at 45 Crowhill Road in 1947. The house was owned/rented by my Grandad and Gran (John and Mary Innes) who later moved to Auchinairn around 1953. I too would love to see pictures of Crowhill Road around that time. I have a copy of a picture postcard taken from the hill to the left of Crowhill Road (what is now Mavis Bank/Lennox Crescent) and shows some of the stone terraced houses. I worked out from the postcard where my birthplace was (no. 45) but don't know if your's is in there. The picture was taken around 1950.