Community Correspondent John Dane loves learning about local history. Here, he shares the story of one of his heroes, who fought for women’s suffrage and faced jail for her actions Helen Crawfurd was born Helen Jack on November 9 1877 in the Gorbals, Glasgow. She was the 4th child in a family of four daughters […]
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Growing up in Glasgow
Our Community Correspondent Lorna Cosh reminisces about her experiences of growing up in Glasgow’s Morrin Square, which no longer exists. Lorna still lives in Townhead, but she feels that something of the community spirit she knew has been lost. She talks about visiting the public baths and all the neighbours who she called aunties and […]
Dolly mixtures, outside toilets and community spirit
A song about a time when neighbours were neighbours from Community Correspondent John Dane Image painted by Community Correspondent David Bradley There’s nothing like a song to make you remember happier times. At our Mind Waves meeting, John sang us “When I was a lad”, which is about growing up in Belfast, but reminded us […]
