I have come up with a few names that are missing from some of the school photographs. Now I've had a chance to go through your site more fully I've come up with a bit of information on life in Cambuslang in the forties and fifties.

Our neighbours were the ALLISONS, MCGINTYS and LOTS OF THOMSONS, THE NAIRNS AND THE COCHRANES. My dad died in 1949 he was quite a popular figure in the town. He had an allotment opposite Gateside school for years. I have added a photo of him, he's on the right. I took that in 1948, the year before he passed away.

My brother-in-law was David Moore. He was bible bearer for the lodge in Tabernacle lane and was in charge of the army cadets in a hall at the end of Monkcastle drive in the early fifties. His mother was  called Nellie Keir they lived in Mansion street at the corner of Colebroke street .I lived for a time at the bottom of Colebroke St when I left the forces in 1956. After my father died my mother and I moved to Glenpark Terrace Eastfield. We were there till I went into the army, then she decided to move to Pumpherston near Blackburn and left me with no home to come back to.  In 1961 I moved here to Manchester and here I am still.

I remember the trams used to run off the rails at the terminus now and again they used to end up in the gas works. One time, two American servicemen pinched a jeep and went driving round the golf course.

How many people remember little Annie Leslie standing on a box in the Borgie Rest to reach her drink and give the customers a song. Boy could she sing. Then there was Gillie who used to sell fire wood from a yard in Clydeford Road. He shoved us kids around in a 2 wheeled barrow. In the winter we used to sledge down the gasworks bray. Look for golfballs in the burn, then we went to Mansion Street and play dokeys on the Anderson shelters. In the late forties/early fifties we would spend our Sundays in Valerio's cafe having pie and peas and a laugh with Angelo. Going to the ranch (The Empire) to watch Johnny Mack Brown kill all the baddies ;then later on cuddling in the back seat with your current girlfriend while Flash Gorden did his thing.

Hope you don't mind my ramblings but I don't have any one in the auld toon I can call on for reminisances. And it's good to talk.

I was born on 9th May 1936 in the back single end at 8 Clydeford Road. The McGintys lived in the front one.

Does anyone remember Hunters the cobblers and upholsterers at the corner of Clydeford Road next to Maggie Wilsons sweetie shop.

A character we called Sandshoe Wullie and Auld Nick who used to sleep on the river bank near Orion bridge, and Daft Wullie who directed trams at the terminus.

Us lads used to put nails on the tram rails so they would be flattened to make miniature swords. Mary Allison (who I mentioned in my last ramblings) at 8 Clydeford did her weekly wash in the communal wash house then. Both her kids in the boiler in the same water.

We had Steavey Diarpino who said "Nae woodbine son jist pasha" at Tonys cafe.

"AREA REDEVELOPEMENT". 3rd row photo 6!!! 27 Park Street. That was the chippie and the Bookery Nook where we exchanged books and mags . We found a lot of Hank Janson novels (who in fact was a woman ) - very steamy they were and Mickie Spillane.

3rd row photo 4 was my local. The barmans name was Jackie.

My uncle John Glenn lived at 26 Colebrook Street. His wife was called Minnie and she had a big wart under her nose.

The Wards (an Irish family). Jean Mary, and Micheal and their mother. Mary worked in the Borgie Cleaners next the Savoy.

My uncle John used to make model boats.They moved to Rothesay. My mother cleaned for Bauchops off sales in Main Street and Websters the Jewellers. Redevelopement photos 7th row 1st photo. The shop is the corner one.

My sister lived at 28 Colebrook Street. Their name was Moore. They moved to Cathkin.

Who remembers "The British Restaurant at the top of Colebrook Street. Whites chippie, the puzzle close. Mrs Murdocks shop next to the pend.

Redevelopement - row one 6th photo. Same location Mr Cairds shop at the corner (the bike man)

My dad, as you will note, if you got photo was young when he passed away 37 years old. Can any one remember the crippled lad in the wheelchair? I think he lived around Mansion Street and he swore like a trooper. His name escapes me. I think this is enough to go on with so I'll close for now.

I served with 25th bridging company in Hamelin in Germany in the 50s, remember the Pied Piper?

Submitted 11 Apr 11

As for you being nephew to Jimmy White it's a small world. In the old days we had Tonis at the terminus then Whites then Rab Bunions and it was bunions tiddlers and Tonis whales when you went for fish suppers. Jimmy whites was good.

Incidentally I didn't know the Craigs I think that was a bit before my time. I have learned something from your photo site. I used to play football on the SauchiBog and I always wondered what was there before I was born, now I know it was houses, and the toll pitch where the "shows" used to come to had a factory of some sort. (a mine).

My first wife was related to the Cadonas "she didn't know I knew that "who owned the speedway rides.

Iv'e put in some photos of me taken in the early 70s, but I have'nt changed much from the 60s when I was in the forces so you might just recognise me. My wife and I came back to Cambuslang in 1973/76 and we lived on Woodlands Crescent for three years in the tenement just passed the school. According to my last look on Google Earth they have been demolished. I worked at Hoover during that time, in what was called "portal hut". Our machine setter was a Jimmy Duncan from Westburn. He was a mechanic to trade. Do you remember Cambuslang Rangers playing against Clyde FC in the mid 60s. The Lang beat them 5 goals to nil. Well, the other person in the photo with my dad is my uncle Robert Russell. He was vice president of Clyde FC.

Before I go, did you know David Tannahill. He became involved with some big union or other. His father Wullie was a fireside lawyer giving advice. They lived at 6 Clydeford Road.

I think I'll close for now. We've been in the front garden all day and what with my arthritis diabetes and my heart failure I'm knackered.Otherwise I'm fine.

The photos  - img023 is my eldest son in front garden of 13 Craigallian ave, doctors at back and in the gap, Mill St. Img024 left to right, myself the wife sister Margaret and brother-in-law Davie Moore in ROTHESAY 1971.  IMG025. Me around 1971. Img026 Mother at front door at 13 Craigallian 1971.

Robert Lindsay