Dennistoun - 3
69 Armadale Street, Dennistoun. My grandparents moved here in the 1910s
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Another view.
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Duke Street
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Church in Armadale Street, looking uphill towards number 69.
Forge - 3
The Forge shopping centre, and a retail park and market, now occupy the space of Parkhead Forge.
Forge - 5
EN - 2
The Forge shopping centre viewed through the gateway of the Eastern Necropolis, across the Gallowgate. What would ancestors buried here make of the supermarket, mall and cinema that replaces the workplaces where so many toiled and indeed died?
EN - 3
Many of my family are buried in the Eastern Necropolis. Alas, there is no documentation of memorial inscriptions here.
EN - 6
Many gravestones are fallen or vandalised. Those remaining trace a history of Glasgow's East End, carved in weathering stone in English or Gaelic.
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Parkhead - 2
From Parkhead Cross, looking east down Tollcross Road - previously Great Eastern Road. The dome and weathervane of Parkhead Library is visible in this picture.
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In 1901, my grandparents lived in a flat at 19 Westmuir Street, with Marion Fisher and various of her younger Pendlebury children next door at 23. These buildings are long gone - the tenement numbers skip from 11 to 35, with Kirkwood and Homestore now in place where people lived. From Glasgow valuation rolls information, the tenements at 19 and 23 were replaced by commercial properties by the 1910s.
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The building bearing the name of the Glasgow Eastern Cooperative Society is directly across the road from where my grandparents lived, in Westmuir Street.
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Congregationalist Church on Westmuir Street. When my grandparents became Freethinkers, it was not for want of a church to attend: the Pendleburys seem to have been Congregationalists.
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Salvation Army church on Tollcross Road, formerly Great Eastern Road. This must be the building that was next door to my grandparents' house on Great Eastern Road. Indeed, the raised dwellings to the right must occupy the same space as that house and the cottages on its west. However, possibly the level of the whole road was lower than it is today.
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Looking west from in front of the Salvation Army church, towards Parkhead Cross.
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From the north side of Tollcross Road - looking towards Parkhead Cross. These are the baths and wash-house, and Parkhead Library.
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From opposite Parkhead library looking east, past the Library and wash-house to the raised newer houses (on what was previously the 'high dike'?) to the Salvation Army church.