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Streets of Bridgeton
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James St. |
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D.McCallum 27 Jan 1974 |
The domed
building at the end of the street is the Bridgeton
Methodist Church
(called the Ebenezer
Hall )
Behind the lorry to the right is the
Masonic Hall which was owned by Lodge Union & Crown
No.103. They sold
the hall in c1984. The lorry is parked outside a shop and close entrance to
the church hall. This building became the Apprentice Boys Hall before
finally turning into a pub called the Keystane.
The church is Bridgeton West & Barrowfield Church of Scotland which
closed in the 1960s the congregation having moved round the corner to
Greenhead Barrowfield Church in London Road.
Left side of the photo is the Bridgeton Working Mans Club, founded 1865
opened in these premises in 1899.
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Email, Apr.2009, Jim Turnbull, East Kilbride
" .....the lorry is parked outside a
close, a sweetie shop was to the left and the right inside of the close was
the entrance to the church hall which I used in the 1960s when a boy in the
219th Boys Brigade, there were tenements above the hall then.... " |
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Email, Apr.2020, Willie Green
"I have attached a photo taken during WW1 of my grandfather JAMES ALEXANDER GREEN
who was with the Machine Gun Corp. He is standing at the back of the
group who I suspect are the machine gun crew. The photo was taken
somewhere in Italy.
my grandfather lived in Landressy Street, Bridgeton and died in 1949."
After my grandfather died, my grandmother stayed on in Landressy Street
(No 111) until she died in 1967. My Aunt Sofia Morrison and her husband
Peter Morrison and their 4 children also stayed in the house in
Landressy Street."
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Photo below taken in 2008 and sadly in 34 years
not much progress has been made and if anything the street looks worse. The
churches and halls on the right hand side have all gone. The Keystane
derelict building still stands and at the James Street end new flats have
been butil, replacing the Working Mens Club.
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