Would you buy an E-Lite in this shop?

[lobeydosser]

This is my Grandfathers Shop in Glasgow during WW1.

I hope you can see the prices.
9d (old money) for a pound of Bacon or 10d for the extra special Bacon.

I love the length of the aprons.

GD is the one in the middle.

[Balllsy]

I certainly wouldn't buy an E-Lite from there Lobey but definitely some lovely bacon mmmmmm and at just 10d for the extra special it's a bargain ! .... Now where's that "I've found a bargain I wish to share" thread

[Blownupdolly]

If your GDs shop was selling elites back then he would have been a very rich man!
I do love looking at old pics like that.

[snapper]

Is that yer ayrshire bacon, or urr ye jist staunin' to close tae the fire?

Great pic lobey, where abouts in Glasgow is it?

[lobeydosser]

Feb 7, 2013 14:36:41 GMT snapper said:

Is that yer ayrshire bacon, or urr ye jist staunin' to close tae the fire?

Great pic lobey, where abouts in Glasgow is it?

Yup, best Ayrshire Bacon.
The shop was in Alison Street near the Queens Park. I was born just round the corner in Pollockshaws Road.
I've been back to the shop and it is still there but is now a Charity Shop. (aren't they all?).

Grandad came here from Northern Ireland as a Horse Breaker, breaking in horses for Milk Carts and other types of carts and worked his way up until he had this shop.

But during the war when money was tight, he gave out too much tick to people that he felt sorry for and after the war those people didn't pay him back what they owed.
That broke him and he lost the shop and his livelyhood.

I doubt if I would have survived back in "The Good Old Days".

[deesigner]

A few years ago I found my mums old notebook. She used it for her weekly shopping lists that she used to drop in to the greengrocer next door to us. Her full weeks shopping including 1lb of back and 1lb of Cheshire cheese was all of 1 pound 2 shilling and six pence Oh the good old days!

[snapper]

I know Allison Street well, my granny lived at 272, near the corner of Garturk Street.

I remember visiting the day after the infamous shooting, involving Howard Wilson, and was petrified. I was only 6 at the time.

[lobeydosser]

Feb 7, 2013 15:24:16 GMT snapper said:

I know Allison Street well, my granny lived at 272, near the corner of Garturk Street.

I remember visiting the day after the infamous shooting, involving Howard Wilson, and was petrified. I was only 6 at the time.

Well I never!!!
My Dad was born in Craigie Street and my Mum in Prince Edward Street. All less than a hundred yards from your Gran.

I have been back for a look around the area since, but while the houses and the streets remain, the atmosphere has changed.
It's a strange feeling, looking at a place you know but from a different world.

[lobeydosser]

Feb 7, 2013 15:24:16 GMT snapper said:

I know Allison Street well, my granny lived at 272, near the corner of Garturk Street.

I remember visiting the day after the infamous shooting, involving Howard Wilson, and was petrified. I was only 6 at the time.

I could not recall Howard Wilson so I did a Google search and came up with this lot;-
mountflorida.eveningtimes.co.uk/area/dark-days-and-dreadful-deeds-that-haunt-our-city.html
By gum we lived in a right rum wee toon!
I see from the article that Ian Brady attended Shawland's Academy.
I did too for a couple of years. I didn'y think is wis that bad a skool.

[pixiguru]

Ayrshire jiggit yum yum!

[snapper]

Feb 7, 2013 16:48:14 GMT lobeydosser said:

I have been back for a look around the area since, but while the houses and the streets remain, the atmosphere has changed.
It's a strange feeling, looking at a place you know but from a different world.

It certainly has, can be quite intimidating at night. Great for food shopping though, if that's yer thang. I go back occasionally to Calder Street to eat in Yadgar, fantastic curry.

[snapper]

Feb 7, 2013 17:16:08 GMT lobeydosser said:

I could not recall Howard Wilson so I did a Google search and came up with this lot;-
mountflorida.eveningtimes.co.uk/area/dark-days-and-dreadful-deeds-that-haunt-our-city.html
By gum we lived in a right rum wee toon!

That's the one. At that time I thought only cowboys had guns, not people living near ma granny in Glasgow.

Feb 7, 2013 17:16:08 GMT lobeydosser said:

I see from the article that Ian Brady attended Shawland's Academy.
I did too for a couple of years. I didn'y think is wis that bad a skool.

My father taught at Shawlands for a while and also taught my big hero, John Martyn (real name was Iain McGeachy), who was a pupil at the time.

I don't think the school like to be associated with Brady, for obvious reasons.

There was quite a lot of racist gang fights at Shawlands Academy in the 90's, unfortunately.

[lobeydosser]

<<< There was quite a lot of racist gang fights at Shawlands Academy in the 90's, unfortunately.>>>

Well that was a bit after my time. I left Shawlands school in 1963 or 1964.

[farzooks]

Feb 7, 2013 15:13:07 GMT lobeydosser said:

The shop was in Alison Street near the Queens Park. I was born just round the corner in Pollockshaws Road.

Hah. I went to the old QP Sec and lived in Cathcart.

lobeydosser said:

But during the war when money was tight, he gave out too much tick to people that he felt sorry for and after the war those people didn't pay him back what they owed.
That broke him and he lost the shop and his livelyhood.

Some people are awful about paying bills for consumables.
It's some weird process goes on in their head, about it being in the past and gone, so they sort of ignore it.

[snapper]

Feb 7, 2013 19:07:36 GMT lobeydosser said:

I left Shawlands school in 1963 or 1964.

Maybe my father taught you lobey, think he was there from 62-66.