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Street ...... Bridgeton
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c1960s
Webster Street taken from junction of Swanston St. looking towards Carstairs
St.
Bonnar Street is the first street on the right
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Oct.2004 Extract from
e-mail. Ken McAlpine ( details tba )
Pictures of Webster St Bridgeton.......... Webster St had
Carstairs St at its east-end with Swanston
St at the west-end.
In between was Bonnar St
which ran north up to
French St.
The tenements are no longer there only grass bounded by the original
streets. I recently paced out the area which was my tenement i.e. Webster
/Carstair/French/Bonnar Streets I calculated an area equivalent to 5 or 6
Sydney house blocks, my conservative calculation of the number of people
in the tenements in my time ( 1943 - 1954 )
was around 1500 only allowing 5 to a family!
No wonder the middens were always full ! Glesga Pals, Great website |
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Same view !! .......Webster Street taken from Swanston Street looking
towards Carstairs Street
Bonnar Street is the first on the right, just before the red car
The area is derelict and much of the spare ground and empty streets are
used by the 'travelling folk'
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c1960's Webster Street ..... you can see the junction of
Bonnar Street opposite the lorry |
The van parked in Webster St. is from a large company called John Laird
who made mainly cardboard boxes.
I wonder how many of my Glesga Pals worked there or had a Ma or Da
that did.
Ken reckons these
photographs would have been taken c1960s or slightly later for two
reasons
1 ) You can see electric street lighting , he left in
1955 and it was just being installed.
2 ) Most of the downstairs houses are boarded up , he
is sure they were occupied during his time. |
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Nov.2006 extract from
guestbook, Joan Muir, Vernon, New Jersey, USA
Haven't been on the site in a while. Born 7
Webster Street. I can see oor close and ma Granny's close. Looks
dismal in the pic. Must be after the 60's we left in 1969 and it wasn't
boarded up like it is in the pic.
Came to the US at age 6. Grew up in Kearny, NJ. Thanks to Ken for posting
the pic of Webster St. as we never had a good photo of it, just had my own
in my memory which looked very different (much nicer) lol, in my mind.
Hard to believe the new photo is the same place. |
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