Newlands Primary School Parkhead
Click on the Newlands Primary link to go to a nice wee Blog about the school on Springfield road near Parkhead Cross.
Administraitor.
- Brian Charlton
- I came from Edmiston street Parkhead in the East End of Glasgow. Went to Elba lane nursery then Newlands primary then Riverside secondary. Then moved to Easterhouse and went to Westwood secondary. Left school at 15 and served my time as a boilermaker in "Thompsons" at Lilybank London road. Then worked as a draughtsman. Met my wife in Easterhouse when we were 17 her maiden name was Ellen Collins and she came from Crail street in Parkhead. We got married in 1971 then lived in Dennistoun till we emigrated to Toronto Canada in 1973. Came back to Scotland in 1975 and have lived in Blantyre ever since. We have 3 grown up children (2 boys, 1 girl). I worked in Clydebank College for 25 years teaching engineering subjects and my wife taught in special needs schools. We have both taken early retirement and are loving every minute of it. My eldest son now lives in N.Z. and has made us proud Grandparents to a lovely little girl and a set of twins (boy & girl).
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2 comments:
Hello Brian,
you might be a wee bit off about the year your big brother was enrolled at Newlands School.
For example, I was born August 1949, and entered school in August 1954, just after my 5th birthday.
If your big brother Eddy was born in 1947, he may have been enrolled in school in 1952 or 1953 at the latest.
It's really good to read that Bobby Irvine from my class remembers Eddy.
Bobby didn't start in my class though. His birthday is in January, and mine August, but after about 3 years, my class was split in two: half of us were moved "UP" and merged with Bobby's bunch, while the other half of our original class were moved "DOWN" to be blended with that class.
This happened as a result of our teacher, Miss Margaret Critchley, going off to get married and then, unexpectedly perhaps, not returning to her teaching post. For a while we had substitute teachers and fill-ins.
Eventually someone organized us into the two seperate groups and disposed of our original group intake of August 1954. This shows up in some early class photos as Bobby Irvine, Margaret Shepherd and Ken McMurray are not in those photos. They began school in January 1954 due to their dates of birth, and later class photos shows us together after the "Merger" took place.
Good work on this East End Pals Blog Brian.
Cheers,
Liz M.
(known as "June" MacWilliam from school days.....Elizabeth was my middle name and I switched to it years ago.)
Brian,
is there any chance you go just invite yourself inside the school building (as I did myself when I was there in 1997) and take a few photos for us of things we might still recognize for example?
At the time I entered, and nobody challenged me at all, I did not have a camera with me.....had not expected to be driving through the Parkhead Area at the time, but my mum had wanted to go and have lunch at Parkhead Forge, which was a novelty as one of my uncles actually worked his entire life in the original Forge! So realizing I was near NEWLANDS,I drove over there and decided to Invite Myself In. I never met a soul...don't know where the incumbents were that day. Nothing much was locked and I looked over what I could. That was a sad day to see those previously Cathedral Ceilings all covered in and boarded over. When I saw what they had done, I could have wept Brian.
I suppose they thought that was progress......
Liz~
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