Park/ Renfrew .....

[STUARTDALGLEISH]

Hi Marva,

Stuart here, glad to find you all again after SP. I'm the young Gent who dropped by the cemetary for you. I thought about you a few weeks ago as I had a cup of tea on the road up the the cemetary gates. "A wee hiding place to save me going home and getting the tea on before the "bread knife" get's in from her work.

Cheers

Stuart

[nancy]

Hi Jack,couldn't agree more about what's happened to Paisley.I'm Paisley born and bred,but get so angry when councils decide to do what they like.They just destroyed Foxbar high flats,only 40 odd yrs old.They were beautiful houses,i brought my family up there,but they were let run down,hence the outcome. Nancy

[HK]

Situation not limited to paisley.In Greenwood ,NS they are tearing down the new Marital Quarters and puttig a $1000.deck on the old ones.Bet you can't guess where the only schools in the area are?
The "Q" we lived in the longest is now the only one left for 4 blocks.There's still a family there.But posting season will see the clearing of that one too.So they've dozed the 20 year old buildings to keep the pre WW2 buildings.Over here older is not better.It's rundown and uninsulated.
HK

[StewL]

Marva
Sorry to hijack the topic.

Jack
Here in Perth they did the same thing in the 70's & 80's, demolished all the old buildings, and as Perth is a relatively new city. they have only left a few old buildings in between the wind tunnel created by the office towers.
They are regretting it now, but tooo late, far too late.

[marva]

Hi to everyone and thanks for all the help you have given me.

JACK

I'd love to have a picture of 77 Hairst, if its no bother to you. It's hard to piece everything together from this side of the pond. I know what you mean about the old buildings. At least in the town we live in, which is the County seat, the voters voted to preserve the old Court House. It took years to complete, but is beautiful inside and out. They took the jail out of it and built it on the outskirts of town in a very modern building. They have also preserved all the little shops in our downtown area and many of the older homes have been redone. Seems every time I go to town I see something new that has been redone. My brother (now deceased) remembered living on Glen Crescent as a child 1927-1935. My grandparents lived at 2109 Dumbarton Road, where my grandfather was killed March 1941. I have maps of some of the parrishs. My brother gave me a picture of Yoker Parrish Church Corner of Dumbarton & ? (he couldn't remember the other street, do you know?)

STUART

So good to hear from you. I was just showing the picture of the marker you so nicely sent to me against the one I had to a friend yesterday and told her how you stopped on your way home from work to take it. She could hardly believe someone that far away and did not know me would go to that trouble. I just told her "You don't know the SCOT'S, they're special people." Hope you enjoy many a cup of tea on your way home from work. I too learned to have my cup of tea from my Mom.

Marva

[Jack]

Hi Folks,

Seems most town planners the world over were made from the same mould - pity it hadn't been smashed up wi a big hammer years ago.

Nancy, i well remember Foxbar - grew up in Glenburn in the 1950s - and Durrockstock Dam was one of our summertime haunts, but it was all countryside back then - very few hooses. Since starting the Fam Hist i've discovered that a 17yr old 3rd cousin drowned there in 1931. As a lad i swam in it too - never thought of it as dangerous....

Marva, Yoker Parish Church is on the corner with Hawick Street. Do you need pics of Glen Crescent - which no.? Not too sure if 2109 Dumbarton Rd is still there - March 1941 was, as you no doubt know, the Clydebank Blitz.

Jack

[Jack]

Hi Marva,

You'll notice some more age discrepancies!
--
1861 cens 575 Ed 8 p 14 (Renfrew)
24 Canal St.
Alexr. PARK, head, marr, 50, labourer, b Renfrew
Mary PARK, wife, 45, wife, b Port Glasgow
James PARK, son, 14, scholar, b Paisley
Margaret PARK, daur, 5, ------ b Renfrew
Alexr. PARK, son, 2, --------- b Renfrew
&
1871 cens 575 Ed 5 p 32 (Renfrew)
24 Canal St.
Alexander PARK, head, marr, 58, labourer in shipyard, b Renfrew
Mary PARK, wife, 46, -------- b Port Glasgow
Alexander PARK, son, 15, iron moulder, b Renfrew
Robert PARK, son, 7, scholar, b Renfrew

Possibly with the family is 60yr old widower James Fairley, labourer born Malgray, STI.
--
Jack

[marva]

JACK

Thanks so much, Church is just around the corner and down a bit by my map. All these years I've looked at the map to try and figure where it was but it wasn't marked. I have no idea what # on Glen Crescent and all have passed on that could tell me. Yes, my grandfather was killed during the Blitz on his way to work. My Gran stayed on there until 1946 she came for a 6 months visit to USA and when she went back living arrangements with a family member didn't work out. Son=in-law was quite a drinker and my grandmother was a tea Janie. She then went to David Watson Eventide Home in Gargunnock, Sterling and passed away there in 1962 (82). I wrote to them to see if I could get any information many years ago and they wrote back that she had never been there and there was no record. I believe just someone to lazy to look. I have pictures of her in front of the place, in bed when she was ill, and I wrote to her and sent her pound notes, which I know she got. Back in the 50's & early 60's I paid about $3.25 to $3.75 for one in our money. Don't believe its that high now.

Marva

[Jack]

Hi Marva,

I'll have a look to see if 2109 Dumbarton Rd is still there - i do know there is a large gap around where it should be.

If you could say what your brother's name and date of birth is i could look up his BC at Park Circus. It will be a wee while though till my next visit.

Possibly there are new staff at the Eventide home (if it's still there). Explain you were told that were no records for your gran last time you asked, but enclose a copy of the photo to show that she did stay there.

All i know of the £1 is that it ain't worth much today!

Jack

[HK]

The pounds worth lots more than the Canadian dollar so if you want your money to stretch on vacation come for a visit.
HK
Sorry everyone I've been recruiting today.