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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: CurlyC on Wednesday 22 January 20 14:07 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
I am wondering if you can help me,? I am trying to trace any information regarding a building in Tollcross where my parents and my grandmother lived in the 1920’s and early thirties. My grandmother was called Gunn and my parents Crossan
It was known as The Chuckie and occupied 3 sides of a square bounded by Eversley St/ Tollcross Rd/ Battleburn St /the fourth side was open. It was knocked down between 1980 and 1996 and replaced by a youth centre and social housing.
If you have any information, photographs, or know of a possible source of information I would be grateful to hear of it
Yours sincerely,
John
John J Crossan
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The Chuckie on the Internet
http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/lofiversion/index.php/t7984.html
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Hi I just tried that link but it would not open for me ?
Regards
Sarah
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Dear Sarah
My request was as followsHi,
I am wondering if you can help me,? I am trying to trace any information regarding a building in Tollcross where my parents and my grandmother lived in the 1920’s and early thirties. My grandmother was called Gunn and my parents Crossan
It was known as The Chuckie and occupied 3 sides of a square bounded by Eversley St/ Tollcross Rd/ Battleburn St /the fourth side was open. It was knocked down between 1980 and 1996 and replaced by a youth centre and social housing.
If you have any information, photographs, or know of a possible source of information I would be grateful to hear of it
Yours sincerely,
John
John J Crossan
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The Chuckie on the Internet
http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/lofiversion/index.php/t7984.html
Hi I just tried that link but it would not open for me ?
Regards
Sarah
Unfortunately the GlasgowGuide site appears to have gone down, hopefully only in the short term. The link did go to discussions by former residents of Tollcross and of various buildings in the area. You may, unfortunately, just have to wait to see if it comes back.
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It is frustrating because the site may have provided some useful information, John
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The Glasgow Guide site is back up and running. The link now takes you to the relevent discussion board (sadly not much about the Chuckie itself)
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Thank you, you have been very helpful
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Hi John,
I think the chuckie disappeared in the early sixties. Battleburn street disappeared from the maps at the same time.
In 1969 My grandparents and mum were cleared from their old “slum” housing in the Rottenrow in Glasgow and relocated to the newly built flats on tollcross road where the chuckie would have stood. My grandparents still lived there until their deaths about five years ago. similar flats were built down the eversley street side. The back court was massive so I presume that was the old back court of the chuckie, made even larger due the removal of battleburn street as the grass went right up to the border wall with the old school, which has now been turned into a housing centre itself.
Kind regards,
Rory
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Dear Rory
My apololgies for taking so much time to reply. In fact i had already sent you a message but I included an attachment and this meant my message was not loaded on to the system. The attachment merely showed the shape of the Chuckie, being 3 sides of a square with the common ground in the centre. It is because of the shape, and the wash houses, and clothes drying areas, in the centre, where the children played,and the adults met to talk that I believe therthere was a spirit of community especially in the 20's and early 30's according to anecdotal evidence,that was fairly unique.
My family lived at 16 Battleburn St which you entered by a stair from the area in the middle. My Grannie lived in the same close which I think had 4 single-ends and a shared toilet on the same floor. My Father was a minor and my Mother a mill worker, as were many of their neighbours .
Sorry , Rory I am going on a bit! Your information was very useful in dating the knocking down of the building and the disappearance of Bannockburn St.
Thank you again
John
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Hi John,
The Chuckie brought back memories of yesteryears to me & many. My Mother's friends the Dickson stayed there in Battleburn St, then moved to Bothwellhaugh. You mention Eversley St, before it ws called that it was Graham St. If you look up at the name of the Street on the Corner of Tollcross Rd, you see Graham St, still marked up in Black Surround??? & Gold Wording. My Father was born in John St, Tollcross, am lead to believe that it run down oppisite side of Graham St. Side nearer to the old Tollcross Scholl at Fullarton Ave, now knocked down & Rebuilt as a Unit of Housing.
I stand to be corrected though on John St, original locale though not far away from there. Then he moved to the village of Clyde opposite Causewayside St, London Rd.
Harry Machon.