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Ontario Canada
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 Helen
& Bill taken Glasgow 1952
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Helen Hain worked for
Mitchell's Imperial Tobacco
company
this photograph with Bill, was taken
at the Christmas staff dance
in 1952
at the Plaza Ballroom in Glasgow.
Helen says "....get a
load o' the
evening gloves and matching
dolly bag. I was as flat as a
pancake
in those days and I had to have the
dress stitched tight so that
it would
not turn when I turned!
Definitely nothing there to hold it
in
place, changed days now...."
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Helen was born in a single end at 54 Fisher
Street, Dennistoun Glasgow she lived there with her Ma, Da & big
brother until a bomb landed at the top of Dunchatten St then they moved to
Dunoon during the war where they had relatives, before returning to
Dennistoun.
Helen attended Golfhill Primary School in Dennistoun, ..... see her 1947
class photograph, then she attended Whitehill Secondary School. The
family moved to Barlanark in 1951
Bill was born in 1936 and attended Tureen
Street Primary School in Calton, Glasgow. Bill would be around 9 yrs old
when this 1945 class photograph
was taken. He then furthered his education at that wonderful old Bridgeton
school - John Street Senior Secondary where he played for the the school football
team
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Bill & Helen were married in Trinity Duke St
church in 1956 and lived in McIntosh Street, Dennistoun........ how about this
for a wedding day.......Extract from GlescaPals
mesageboard
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.... 1956 wur gettin merried in the glesga fair,
friday was the plan, bit a fun oot that friday wis gawny be the 13th am no
gittin merried oan the 13th so we chinged it tae the 14th,jist a quiet
weddin, 4 of us,church, dinner and a show it the Pavilion,
I shoed a hud a premonition when the army took wur best man tae dae
national service the week before the weddin,
ma pals man agreed tae take his place, a shood add a didnae want tae git
wed in Barlanark church a wantit merried in the church a went tae in Duke
St.
So there we are, 4of us in a private hire car ootside Trinity Duke St
church an the church is shut, wan a ma uncles heads up tae the manse, only
tae be telt thit the minister wis away tae Edinburgh, meanwhile we've been
tae the wardens hoose an gote the keys a the church, a coodny get the big
doors open, so a took thim a in thru the vestry
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was quite a crowd o people by this time. Back cums the uncle wae nae
minister, he tried phonin Martha St reg office
its the Glesga
fair we shut early nae help therr.
Wan a the family spots a man o the cloth comin oot a cochranes wae his
messages & explains the situation tae him ,
 I"ll dae
the service says he bit he hid the nerve tae say tae Bill dae ye still
want tae go thru way this,?  its yer last
chance,
gote tae the restrant they'd gied wur table tae sumdy else, manager told
people whit hid occured an aw the tables goet shuved the gither tae make
room, ye kin image the cracks fae the Glesga folk,
Gets tae the Pavilion ,n Tommy Morgan hud been telt by ma daft relatives
,we wer the butt a aw the jokes that night a kin tell ye
that's
ma memory o the Glesga Fair an mah wedding day
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Helen ( handsome) is an avid fan o'the GlescaPals mesageboards
here are some more of her posts......
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Wedding customs.
when a worked in Mitchell's tobacca, the lassies
therr took turns it makin wee bride dolls, a lot a work went intae the
makin o them ,hand sewn dress ,veil a nice wee bouquet a floors an a wee
head-dress usually made fae sumbidy's auld pearl necklace,and it was made
tae sit oan the middle of yer bed.
Noo that Gelfer's crowd fae Brigton
 they made a
hula skirt oot a ties and a white top wae a big red L oan it dressed poor
Bill stuck a chanty in his haun's ,they filled it wae salt fur luck and a
wee baby doll sitting in the salt and they took him tae the X ( Bridgeton
Cross ) and left him under the umbrella at rush hour on fair friday,
and he hud
tae stawn there tae a driver feeling sorry fur him gave him a lift hame,a
wunder dae the factory lassies still dae daft things like that noo a days
 any
bidy remember hearin ,Hard up kick the can oor wee mary's goat a man ,an
they wid be bangin pot lids or oany thin else thit made a noise ??
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Leaving Glasgow
Sept 1966 the family came tae the station tae see me
oan the boat train, jist ma Ma and Da came oan the train wae me and the 3
weans, {Bill hud flew awr in July cause he hud a job tae start} a wis fine
tae the piper on Greenock pier started playing 'will ye no come back
again' as the wee tender took us oot tae the big liner, an ma mammy wis
greetin' her eyes oot, ah
wis takin her 1st three Granweans tae the other side o' the world, the two
of
them came ower in July 1967 tae make sure we wurnae starvin.
I've always
been too busy tae get homesick wae 3 weans and 2 jobs a wis fortunate
enough that a could afford the cheap flights fae here when a needed tae go
hame, bit Bill would have gone back before the year wis oot.
I gave him a
plane ticket fur a xmas pressie, two weeks in ma ma's cauld end room soon
cured him, it wis years before he mentioned gawn back tae stay again! .
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.This photograph was taken at Bill & Helen's retirement apartment in
Ontario, May 2004.
".........Webmaister thanks again for all the time and effort
you put into Glesga Pals.
Thanks to you I am in contact with pals around
the world......"
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Golden
Wedding Anniversary
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Lovely photograph taken 14th July 2006, Ontario
celebrating the Golden Wedding Anniversary
of Bill & Helen McKinlay |
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 Wonderful memories & photos Bill & Helen ..thanks for sharing them with us, God
bless.
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| ..... a lifetime entry in GlescaPals..........details .
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