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 Whilst attending Dalmarnock School I lived at 202 Baltic Street.


Linda & William McArthur 
with baby cousin William Evans 
taken 1960
This picture was  taken inside our single-end flat 
in the close of 202 Baltic Street.
This was a tenement one apartment house in the close with an outside toilet. The apartment had a bed recess which housed the family double bed, the curtains in the background of this picture are covering the bed recess. There was a walk-in cupboard called a scullery which housed the cooker and we had a sink at the window. Being young children we thought nothing of it and my memories are fond ones. 
We then flitted and moved round the corner to no.74 Fairbairn Street, two-up. 
This was the close between two shops, one a newsagent on the corner the other shop a dairy.
This flat had an inside toilet, two bedrooms but no bath.. My sister and I got a room each, 
the living room was the family area and housed a bed recess for my Ma & Da, a scullery and 
a sink at the window which had a gas gieser for hot water. 
This was how the area  looked then......Dalmarnock Rd. looking north towards Bridgeton X

Fairbairn Street is the street over on the right at the billboard, top right of the picture you can see Ruby Street high rise flats, when I was at school Ruby Street was the tramcar depot, no high rise flats then.  I'm personally sorry the tenements weren't renovated. 
The bottom rh corner the parked white car is outside Dalmarnock Congregational Church. 
The church is still there but no longer a Congregational Church.

Comparison photograph of  Dalmarnock Road 
          junction of Fairbairn Street, looking north towards Bridgeton X


Fairbairn Street
has been renamed
Fairbairn Path 

     (Photo taken Feb 2002 )

 

Church 
Dalmarnock Rd.
jcn of Fairbairn 

(Photo taken Feb 2002 )

I have many fond memories of this church. Great times.
Shipmates, Life Boys,
church parades, dances with the Girls Brigade, football in the hall.......

 

             

I attended Sunday school here and was a member of the Boys Brigade (175th). Mr Smart was the Captain, then his son Robert Smart became Captain.....great guys. They and others gave up their time to look after us every week, football on a Saturday, church on a Sunday. These BB officers men and woman were the salt of the earth. 

I stayed with the BB, became an officer in the 219th Company in the area  using John Street Primary school then Dalmarnock School as our Friday night meeting place until I was in my thirties, thereafter our  company like many others disbanded, as the area was being demolished.

Boys Brigade Camp, Skegness 1973.

BB Camp in  Skegness, England, 1973. 

 I'm standing in back row last on the right, 

wearing a nice shirt with purple tank-top!

 

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