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Glasgow boy
Joe Carr was born 5th January 1936 at No.54 Gretna
St. Glasgow, just two or three weeks previously his family had flitted
from No.327 Nuneaton St.
Nuneaton Street
was where his mother's family ( the Derby's ) lived and his father's
family came from Sunnybank Street.
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Joe 1947
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All the Carr children attended
Springfield Primary and
Riverside Secondary schools.
Joe was the youngest and had not long
started at Springfield Primary School before
being evacuated with the whole school to Moffat.
His best pals were John Brown from Mordaunt St
and Ronnie Caldwell from Sunnybank
St.
Riverside School
was very convenient as
it was just round the corner from the family
house in Gretna Street.
Joe said he wasn't a nice lad then, always fighting
and running after the girl's, but he had fun!
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On leaving Riverside his first job was at
the Plaza cinema in
Nuneaton Street and he was there for almost three years before going into
the Cameronians in 1953.
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His regiment was the Cameronians
S/R the same as Henry May V.C. and
Joe's uncle Jim (K.I.A.1918) both of Nuneaton Street.
Joe married Vena in 1964 and they have just
celebrated 41 years together. "Yes, like the teachers of
my Glesga schools, how she put up with me, only the gods of Olympus could
fathom. lol "
His wife Vena was born in Kenya (Nairobi) and was a theatre nurse who
helped to dig out his wisdom tooth, romantic, eh?
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They both retired to Cornwall before Joe's
62nd birthday and they have never regretted the move.
Cornwall, with the moors, lovely coves, beautiful fishing villages, yes
its the place
for them, before the R.I.P. comes around !
He took up parachuting at 63 with the intention of taking up paragliding
later, but the gods of old Caledonia (including Vena) descended on his
heid.
Joe with his great niece Jodie
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Extract from e-mail, Apr 2005, Joe
Carr, Cornwall, England
"........ webmaister Wull thanks very much for my
Glesga Pals webpage ........Joe Carr"
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One of Joe's great loves is
his beloved Cameronians
where he served 1953 -56.
He has a website full of
photographs from his time in the army and he would dearly love to hear
from anyone who served in the Cameronians in the 1950s.
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