Thank you Maisie for this great video - it was wonderful to see! I look forward to the day I get to go to Scotland to see it all first hand as I truly look forward to seeing where my Anderson ancestors came from - it will be a dream come true. Although I don't know exactly where they lived, all I know is it was Barony/Lanarkshire - just being there will be enough for me! Thanks again, Gail Anderson Leonardo > > On Thu 31/10/13 3:00 AM , [email protected] sent: > 1. Glasgow's West End (Maisie Egger) > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:43:16 -0700 > From: "Maisie Egger" ca > [email protected]> > Subject: [Lanark] Glasgow's West End > To: [email protected]> > Message-ID: [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > This link takes you to Glasgow?s West end: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcKTCx-MwZU > The walking tour includes a view of Park Circus where it used to be > possible to do genealogy research. This comment, however: > :Just to let you all know, the Park Circus Genealogy Centre - run by the > City Registrar will be relocated to the 3rd Floor of the Mitchell Library > from 22/03/2011. > There will be 20 terminals available for use - the centre will operate as > it currently does at Park Circus ie seats need to be reserved and first > come first served basis. No mention of change in Fees but she didn't have > all the details to hand > It's been a long time coming, but at last we will have everything under one > roof.::: > Maisie

Hello, Gail, I'm glad that you enjoyed the little tour around the west end of Glasgow. If you go to YOUTUBE, there's also one of the East End of Glasgow, where you might find the Glesga patter (Glasgow speech pattern) somewhat difficult to comprehend, and this from a Glaswegian! It depends on the presenter who can be more comprehensible than others. I am sure that Glasgow is no different than other big cities (at least in the U.K.) where there are many dialects within a city. Where I grew up one side of the street was definitely working class, where tradesmen and unskilled labourers in heavy industry lived. Right across the street office workers, owners of small shops and skilled workers in light industry also lived in houses not too much different from "across the street." The houses were "scheme houses" --- or council housing--- built as a result of Glasgow's massive rehousing efforts after WWI. As both types of housing "belonged" to Glasgow Corporation, there was little class distinction on that score. (If you want to see what some "scheme houses" look like, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by6-xw_LntY ) This YOUTUBE video of Corporation housing is a sample of some "regeneration." The flat roofed houses in Penilee were for economic reasons and were not common throughout the rest of Glasgow. On the one side of the street where the tradesmen and unskilled workers lived, the men usually wore the "bunnet," or cloth cap, whereas on the other side of the street men wore a soft hat. For church and for funerals, bowler hats were the headgear du jour for many men. Our office worker neighbour was an elder in the kirk and at his wife's funeral he wore a top hat and tails...this during the war years, which would be an anachronism nowadays, when church elders (even in some mainline churches where we live in California) might not even wear a suit on Communion Sundays. Much of Glasgow, which was once considered to be the finest Victorian city in U.K., is no more. As with much regeneration some of the buildings that were architecturally interesting have made way for modern structures. As a wee office lassie I knew the centre of Glasgow like the palm of my hand, so it is with dismay that when I go back home I see many of the former, substantial red sandstone buildings demolished to be replaced by faceless glass buildings. For any wishing to get a feel of Glasgow, visit soon before the city tries to be the most modern city in Europe which was the goal back in the 1960s before a huge storm caused so much destruction and the city had to put its grandiose plans on hold. In my opinion, the notion is still there as now you see it now you don't where too many fine old buildings are concerned. On this, of course, Glasgow has to be commended for erasing off the face of the earth some of the worst housing in Europe. Back to the video of the other end of Glasgow: With heavy industry, the great Clyde shipyards, locomotive building, steel works, etc., now more or less defunct, "class distinction," seems to be waning. However, one's speech pattern will give you away most of the time! Maisie (Deprived of elocution to take the edge off. I'm still Glesga even after almost 60 years away from that Dear Green Place aka Glasgow!) From: Gail Leonardo Subject: Re: [Lanark] LANARK Digest, Vol 8, Issue 182 Thank you Maisie for this great video - it was wonderful to see! I look forward to the day I get to go to Scotland to see it all first hand as I truly look forward to seeing where my Anderson ancestors came from - it will be a dream come true. Although I don't know exactly where they lived, all I know is it was Barony/Lanarkshire - just being there will be enough for me! Thanks again, Gail Anderson Leonardo > > > > This link takes you to Glasgow?s West end: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcKTCx-MwZU >