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Re: Anderston, Glasgow...were you there?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 25 February 13 12:30 GMT (UK) »
    Yes, that's it - the Heilan Man's Umbrella.    It is still there.      The thing is that the bridge takes quite a few railway tracks from Central Station across Argyle Street before crossing the Clyde, and this means it wasn't like going under your usual bridge and straight out again.     It was, and still is, quite a distance to the other side.    The air used to be polluted at times
under the bridge.     They said it was bad for your lungs but I never noticed it.

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Re: Anderston, Glasgow...were you there?
« Reply #10 on: Monday 25 February 13 12:36 GMT (UK) »
Morag, that is the Heilanmans Umbrella but that's still the Central District, Anderston is further west. The cross is where Stobcross Street met Argyle Street.

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Re: Anderston, Glasgow...were you there?
« Reply #11 on: Monday 25 February 13 15:08 GMT (UK) »
     Skoosh,
                 You're right and I'm wrong.   :P  Sorry about that folks.     Old age has well and truly arrived, ha ha ha.      ;D

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Re: Anderston, Glasgow...were you there?
« Reply #12 on: Monday 25 February 13 15:34 GMT (UK) »
Maybe I've also joined the old age gang....in years but not in the mind! ;D
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Re: Anderston, Glasgow...were you there?
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 09 March 13 23:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi Paul , I was born along the road in Finnieston but all of my mothers family where born and raised in Anderston around Grace st , Stobcross St etc it was a heavy Industrial are with all bonded warehouses and Shipbuilding . My mum worked in the bond that was engulfed in 1960 by fire killing a lot of Firemen , I still like to wander the old streets whenever I am home .. cheers
Billy

Hi Billy,

a lot of my ancestors lived in Grace St and they were called Neely. I also have relatives who lived in and around Whitehall St and their name was Hill. My uncles were called Neil & David
Ramsay, Struthers, Stark (Avondale, Lanarkshire) Haughey, Martin (Ballyrashane) Neely, Fraser (Londonderry) Hill (Anderston, Glasgow), Cranstoun, Carruthers (Dumfries) MacIndoe (Springburn & Bridgeton, Glasgow) McKay (Springburn, Glasgow) Fraser (Paisley)