The Golfer's Rest cafe used to sit right at the corner of the Lethamhill? golf course at the junction where you now join the M8 East. Across the road was a cracking wee sweetie shop that sold all the old time sweets like cola cubes, pineapple chunks. red liquorice etc...also remember horses in the fields beyond the rhubarb fields. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
I think the sweet shop (on the bridge over the canal) was called Farquharson’s it had a horrible smell. There was also an old church on the Cumbernauld road just at the end of the cemetery, it was converted as the DER office (when television rentals were a thing).
Huggie was my adventure playground from 1954 to 1964. It was great. That stuff on the left at the entrance was the rhubarb fields. My grandfather worked on digging the loch out to make it bigger. Walked across the ice in 1963 to the island! Didn't get to see much of the loch.
Well it was 1963 but as I remember it was a lot of medium sized bushes and small trees with some long grass. I would guess a lot of bird nests. We didn't spend too long. It was really cold and I was a bit worried about the ice but it was really thick as it had been below freezing for weeks.
Really enjoying your videos, born on the western edges of Glasgow, but left well over 30 years ago and now living in France. Great to see and hear about Glasgow. All the best from a new subscriber. 👍
Thanks Paul you are a star,I'm first to give you the thumbs up ,I feel special, I've a wee confession to make,dogged school from st Leonard's got on the green bus jumped over the wall on the 2nd or the 3rd🤔 1975😂😂😂,still passed my 0 levels,and your keeping me off my work AGAIN ❤
@@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL got me crying here ya bass,got to boast on this,my younger brother won the Scottish junior fishing competition there 1975 I think with 3 perch 11 ounces,nobody caught much that day as is was too 🔥 hot.
I remember so many years ago, trips to Huggenfield Park with my mum and dad, later with my big sister and her boys. Mostly I remember the lines of ice cream vans with mile long queues. 😄
Hogganfield loch was great place in sixties and seventies,,,used to love the rowing boats and the big boat that went round the loch,,,also standing waiting for an ice cream cone from all the vans that parked on the main Rd,,,used to fill the jam jars and milk bottles with baggy minnows,,,also catch bumble bees and butterflies,,,I've got great memories growing up in ruchazie when it was all farms
I remember when they built craigend in the early seventies,,,,it was all farmland,, so beautiful,, I remember playing on homemade rafts,,getting soaked all the time. We used to pick the brambles from bushes on avenue end Rd,, and play on the bails of hay across from doctor,s surgery in ruchazie, great memories 🙂
Where does Rab stay?rhubarb comment got me in stitches paul,I used to pick it and a wis fae easterhoos, dip in sugar 2 hours later sore stomach 😂😢😅, keep doing what you do love it .
Thankyou so much for this video and seeing where Jamesie lived I loved to watch Rab 😂great stuff keep doing this please take care on your journey Godbless 🙏🤩
Crackin' wan paul , used to be taken up here( and ally parade) to catch a " Bag a' minnies" in the ponds in both parks , magical memories from the 1960's and early 70's.
Paul I’m an ex blackhill punter that stayed in queens lie Street a know it’s aw hooses noo nae tenements but av not been there for a while nice tae see it again ur podcast is brilliant BTW
It’s shocking mate, and it’s been like that for years, don’t know where our council tax money goes, oh yeah it’s to provide gifts and jolly’s for councillors 🤔
there were 2 motor boats on the loch, The Hogganfield and The Ruchazie
The Golfer's Rest cafe used to sit right at the corner of the Lethamhill? golf course at the junction where you now join the M8 East. Across the road was a cracking wee sweetie shop that sold all the old time sweets like cola cubes, pineapple chunks. red liquorice etc...also remember horses in the fields beyond the rhubarb fields. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
I think the sweet shop (on the bridge over the canal) was called Farquharson’s it had a horrible smell.
There was also an old church on the Cumbernauld road just at the end of the cemetery, it was converted as the DER office (when television rentals were a thing).
Tv rentals 😂@@jixuscrixus1967
@@1gerard47 Radio Rentals I think
Nice place .A lovely blue sky 😊
Its s nice park
Huggie was my adventure playground from 1954 to 1964. It was great. That stuff on the left at the entrance was the rhubarb fields. My grandfather worked on digging the loch out to make it bigger. Walked across the ice in 1963 to the island! Didn't get to see much of the loch.
As a youngster we always wonder what the island looked like
Well it was 1963 but as I remember it was a lot of medium sized bushes and small trees with some long grass. I would guess a lot of bird nests. We didn't spend too long. It was really cold and I was a bit worried about the ice but it was really thick as it had been below freezing for weeks.
@gvdlpgg2406 brilliant
Thanks. I should add there were no little huts on it or any long lost tribes. No sign of human activity, a real nature reserve.
Really enjoying your videos, born on the western edges of Glasgow, but left well over 30 years ago and now living in France. Great to see and hear about Glasgow. All the best from a new subscriber. 👍
Thankyou very much ,, oh i love france ,,ill be thrre in December
used to go there from the gorbals in late 60s early 70s .remember swimming out to an island in the middle
Thanks Paul you are a star,I'm first to give you the thumbs up ,I feel special, I've a wee confession to make,dogged school from st Leonard's got on the green bus jumped over the wall on the 2nd or the 3rd🤔 1975😂😂😂,still passed my 0 levels,and your keeping me off my work AGAIN ❤
Aww gerard thanks very much aye i was thinking of when i did it,, just a pity i couldn't walk round but ill get round to it ,, aye the auld huggie eh
@@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL got me crying here ya bass,got to boast on this,my younger brother won the Scottish junior fishing competition there 1975 I think with 3 perch 11 ounces,nobody caught much that day as is was too 🔥 hot.
Crackin' year ' 75 , Wur gaun tae barbados by typically tropical came out that year
🤣brilliant
" I am behind you, I'll always find you, I am the tiger, tiger, tiger." Its Tiger Tim! Great video Paul.
Aww thankyou rob
I remember so many years ago, trips to Huggenfield Park with my mum and dad, later with my big sister and her boys. Mostly I remember the lines of ice cream vans with mile long queues. 😄
a swan chased ma wee sister inty the water 😂😂 ma auld maw wiz like pamela anderson knee deep in the water tae drag her oot 😂😂😂
@@gratefuldeadhead1979 Disnae matter were ye go, swans can be bluddy lethal. 😄
Hogganfield loch was great place in sixties and seventies,,,used to love the rowing boats and the big boat that went round the loch,,,also standing waiting for an ice cream cone from all the vans that parked on the main Rd,,,used to fill the jam jars and milk bottles with baggy minnows,,,also catch bumble bees and butterflies,,,I've got great memories growing up in ruchazie when it was all farms
I remember when they built craigend in the early seventies,,,,it was all farmland,, so beautiful,, I remember playing on homemade rafts,,getting soaked all the time. We used to pick the brambles from bushes on avenue end Rd,, and play on the bails of hay across from doctor,s surgery in ruchazie, great memories 🙂
@robertbruce1137 thoes brambles ive picked them myself
And I swam to that island once,fished there when it was frozen over,using bricks to break the ice.
Ive got fond memories of it too as a boy,, thoes rowing boats,, wouldn't get away with it now its all health and safety now
Where does Rab stay?rhubarb comment got me in stitches paul,I used to pick it and a wis fae easterhoos, dip in sugar 2 hours later sore stomach 😂😢😅, keep doing what you do love it .
Cheers pal
That tiger tim stevens also hud a seafront pad in Largs furra few yeers tae, used to " service the ladies" regularly there so im told !!
Thankyou so much for this video and seeing where Jamesie lived I loved to watch Rab 😂great stuff keep doing this please take care on your journey Godbless 🙏🤩
Aw thankyou for your kind words, look out for the road ttip to southern spain from Scotland,,,,, also africa in February
Can’t wait Thankyou take care 🏴🌍🙏
Crackin' wan paul , used to be taken up here( and ally parade) to catch a " Bag a' minnies" in the ponds in both parks , magical memories from the 1960's and early 70's.
Cheers roller
Visit there once when boats where there .😊
Yes i remember the boats too
Paul I’m an ex blackhill punter that stayed in queens lie Street a know it’s aw hooses noo nae tenements but av not been there for a while nice tae see it again ur podcast is brilliant BTW
Thanks plunge,, yeah totally changed down there specially ,,, ill be in blackhill again soon as there is a new street been added
Cheers Paul
Good to see the roads are still the same, like the surface of the moon…. 🙄
Cumbernauld rd is extremely bad
It’s shocking mate, and it’s been like that for years, don’t know where our council tax money goes, oh yeah it’s to provide gifts and jolly’s for councillors 🤔
Thankyou for watching and a merry Christmas to you
Wit a change Paul.
It sure is
Cars have changed a lot,you don't see minis, hillman imps, escorts,Cortinas ,vivas get my jist
Even big engines hanging out of cars in the streets
@@ROUTEPLANNERPAULgetting fixed?
It disnae look like the old huggie I knew either.
Very true,, i can remember one hot summer day everyone from the schemes are there crowded it was,, all coming and going off the big boat
Tiger Tim radio Clyde,and jamsy cotter 😂😂😂,is he still way ellla?
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Tiger Tim. . .Radio Clyde 261 , all together now !!
auld huggy used to go there wen a wiz a wee boy always mobbed (fae carntyne)
Aye good times eh
@@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL sure was pal
Pity the banks of the loch is such a terrible state