We lived in a tenement, one toilet between 11 of us, no bath or running hot water.
Which street did you live on?– I have four sisters and four brothers. My dad was Irish, from Ballymena and my mum was originally from Ayrshire. I went to the
every Friday to help my mum after school. She would send us up the stairs in the steamie for a bath, for thruppence.St John’s Infant School and then St Margaret’s Secondary, like my big brothers and sisters before me. I worked in Gratispool developing films for a few years then Robert Whyte’s Photography but I felt in a rut with the same old day to day routine. Glasgow at the time seemed dull, smoky, rainy and grey.
a can of lager between us and we thought we were the bees’ knees going to the Portland ‘drunk’. It was a bit of a dive, but a good one. As I got older, I went to the Square Peg pub in St Enoch Square, Terminal One, Clouds up in the Apollo. The Mally Arms on Eglinton Street was another good pub, and the Coliseum Bar – I worked in the lounge bar for a while and my mum worked in the kitchen, making lentil soup with ham hough on Saturdays.
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