easterhouse

  • Messages, Weegie Style

    It’s funny the memories that stay with you. All the small insignificant episodes and experiences that stick to you from childhood like well chewed spitballs on the classroom ceiling. They’re there, you can see them but there’s no way of getting up there to clean them out. Some memories are disturbing, things you’d rather forget…

  • Q is for Queenslie

    As I mentioned in E is for Easterhouse, I grew up in the greater area of Easterhouse, but my particular wee part of hell was called Queenslie. Queenslie was a small scheme of only four streets built primarily to house the workers at the adjoining industrial estate. I lived on the top floor of a…

  • G is for Gangs and Ginger

    Glasgow. Gangs. The two go together like Morcambe & Wise, Torville & Dean, Brady & Hindly… As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I am from the greater area of Easterhouse. My wee scheme had 4 streets in it. Four streets and three gangs, the two biggest being the Rebels and the Fleet. One…

  • E is for Easterhouse

    When you mention Easterhouse to most people, an image of deprivation, unemployment, gang warfare, mugging, glue-sniffing and drugs is what will often spring to mind. Well, try living there. I lived in the ‘Greater Area of Easterhouse’ – I won’t talk about exactly where today or I’ll have nothing to write about for ‘Q.’ Gang…

  • Gangs of Glasgow

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com]   Robert Jeffries writes, “research conducted by Glasgow University’s Professor Neil McKeganey shows that one in three boys and one in twelve girls across Scotland has carried a knife at some time.” A chilling figure. I am Glaswegian and come from Easterhouse, one of the areas badly troubled by gangs in the seventies…