. John
McBarron was born in 1928 into a family that
fared no better than others in the poverty-stricken East End of Glasgow.
As was the fate of many he failed to escape the scourge of the tenements,
tuberculosis, and was hospitalised in Mearnskirk sanatorium at the age of
three. After four years of cosseted treatment he emerged into the bleak
world that was the tenement culture of Bridgeton.
.
He grew up in the shadow of the Celtic Football
Club whose success in those early years helped to relieve the
stress of the pervasive poverty.
His parents, who had gleaned a living from street hawking from a barrow,
were now the owners of a small general store (the wee shop) just down the
road from Celtic Park.
This was the centre of his early life where he was exposed first-hand to
the pain of the community trying to make ends meet via the pawn
shop...............
John
McBarron was born in 1928 into a family that
fared no better than others in the poverty-stricken East End of Glasgow.
As was the fate of many he failed to escape the scourge of the tenements,
tuberculosis, and was hospitalised in Mearnskirk sanatorium at the age of
three. After four years of cosseted treatment he emerged into the bleak
world that was the tenement culture of Bridgeton. 
