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Oct.2010, extract from email
Glesca Artist William Neilly
I only
lived in Newhall Street, Bridgeton,
until age 2. The family then moved
to Woddrop Street in Dalmarnock in
1949. Nevertheless we continued to
attend Newhall Parish church in Main Street
until it merged with Bridgeton church which
was renamed Bridgeton and Newhall Parish
church. I remember Tommy Hudson,
caretaker of Newhall church, who lived in Main
Street just opposite 266. Crolla's cafe
which was often frequented by local Glesca
Pals after church services was located near
number 266 Main Street. The Neilly
family often visited Richmond park just over
Rutherglen Bridge. I remember the
tenement building, on the left of the
photograph looking up Main Street from
Rutherglen Bridge, had a plaque on the wall
indicating that persons found defacing the
walls would be prosecuted!
Additional information on the area is
available from a paper entitled, "
Recollections of Bridgeton", by William
Guthrie read in the Trades Hall to the Old
Glasgow Club on 20 November 1905. It
provides an account of village life in
Bridgeton from 1830 onwards.
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