Number 142 St. Vincent Street is the building you describe as "more prosaic" 142A and 144 are the building next door there are two entrances 142A and 144 - it would appear that the building was split into different units with different access points and numbered as 142A and 144

Thanks for clearing this up. Unless the brain is atrophying, I could have sworn that I worked at #144 St. Vincent St., but with your information it was indeed 142 as the numbers would be lower heading toward George Square, Number 142 was near the corner of Hope Street, then the next street up would be West George Street. My first wee lassie office job was at 124 St. Vincent Street, between Renfield Street and Hope Street. (I sincerely hope that all of those substantial buildings, mostly red sandstone, of fine architecture, are still standing. Too much of Glasgow has disappeared in the name of progress.) I worked for James Waldie & Sons, Coal Merchants at #142, which was then taken over by Bruce Lindsay Brothers Ltd., Edinburgh, in the latter 1950s. I gather that all the staff that had worked for Waldie's for many years were let go, and at their ages it must have been traumatic, my 'boss' suffering a stroke attributable perhaps to the stress of being made unemployed at her age. One of the perks of being an office girl was that all correspondence of businesses within a certain perimeter of the city core was hand delivered by 'entry level' office staff. Shades of Charles Dickens as one would see many young office workers scurrying around in all sorts of weather hand-delivering mail. One wonders now if the electronic age has taken care of that form of 'Pony Express!' A memory that has stuck in my mind forever is that the solicitor for whom I worked at 124 St. Vincent Street belonged to a club 'up' in Blythswood Square. This 'considerate' gentleman phoned this silly wee lassie to bring his raincoat 'up' to him as it was pouring buckets. Fourteen-year-old silly me didn't think to use the raincoat to cover myself and by the time I trekked all the way 'up' to Blythswood Square I was soaking wet! The one distraction was that the club was in the next building from where the notorious Madeleine Smith lived, and each time I'd pass the house my imagination would work overtime: was she or was she not guilty of the murder of her lover? A guilty of 'not proven' under Scots Law was declared. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Smith This notorious murder was even talked about when I was growing up. I hope that the City of Glasgow has put a plaque on the building indicating its historical significance, albeit a murder. Maisie -----Original Message----- From: rjpaton via Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 8:17 AM To: lanark@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Lanark] LANARK Digest, Vol 11, Issue 59 - Re Hatrack building Number 142 St. Vincent Street is the building you describe as "more prosaic" 142A and 144 are the building next door there are two entrances 142A and 144 - it would appear that the building was split into different units with different access points and numbered as 142A and 144