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We are now in the first week of the Glasgow fair but it doesn’t seem such a big thing like it did years ago .
So what’s your memories of the old Glasgow fair if you are from Glasgow of course .
Mine was being taken in to old Glasgow toon for new clothes for our holiday.
When I say holiday it was always a two week break to mum & dads caravan in Tighnabruaich.
I loved it there !
During the day we would go wee trips out and about or just chill at the caravan on the beach .
At night it would be snacks ,ginger & a game of cards or domino’s .
Then every other night we’d go out for dinner & a drink to the Kames hotel known to the locals as The Glue Pot because there wasn’t much in the village and everyone who lived there gravitated to The Glue Pot lol
Lots of happy memories of that time .
So what are your memories of the old Glasgow fair ?  |
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"2 weeks in a caravan at Sandylands staring out the big windae and hoping the pishin rain would stop  "
we mostly had good summers back then but at other times of the year it would pour .
I loved listening to the rain in the van .
We used to go into the woods in the pouring rain and pick hazelnuts of the trees lol |
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I was usually on the way to Ayr for a week things were totally different in those days . Most go off to hotter foreign climates I’m not a sun worshipper so unless there’s aircon it’s a no from me .   |
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"I was usually on the way to Ayr for a week things were totally different in those days . Most go off to hotter foreign climates I’m not a sun worshipper so unless there’s aircon it’s a no from me . "
They sure we’re different back then but great fun .
I remember at nighttime’s us all going to different vans for the adults to have a wee drink then once the booze kicked in they would come out and play rounders with us kids .
Happy days ! |
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"Not forgetting the train journey back to Glasgow packed full with kids and d*unk parents lol"
I bet !
Probably sunburnt too if it was a glorious day as sunscreen was virtually unheard of back then lol |
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over a year ago
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"I read recently that it's the oldest non religious public holiday in the world. Started in the 1600s i think.  wow ! "
Thats what i thought, very progressive back then. Lol |
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over a year ago
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I've lived up here a few years and never been as not lived close enough.
Now living in Glasgow, is this something worth going to? I would be by myself but that wouldn't bother me unless it's more family orientated?? |
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"I was usually on the way to Ayr for a week things were totally different in those days . Most go off to hotter foreign climates I’m not a sun worshipper so unless there’s aircon it’s a no from me . They sure we’re different back then but great fun .
I remember at nighttime’s us all going to different vans for the adults to have a wee drink then once the booze kicked in they would come out and play rounders with us kids .
Happy days ! "
Who remembers the most folk in a family car no seat belt rules back in the day three in the front five in the back lol . |
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"Coming from a big family, when we finished school, that was us until we returned back. Glasgow Fair had no significance as my Father worked endlessly to provide for his kids. "
understandably !
My dads work closed down for the fair fortnight . |
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"I've lived up here a few years and never been as not lived close enough.
Now living in Glasgow, is this something worth going to? I would be by myself but that wouldn't bother me unless it's more family orientated??"
Been where ? You got the right post ? |
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"I was usually on the way to Ayr for a week things were totally different in those days . Most go off to hotter foreign climates I’m not a sun worshipper so unless there’s aircon it’s a no from me . They sure we’re different back then but great fun .
I remember at nighttime’s us all going to different vans for the adults to have a wee drink then once the booze kicked in they would come out and play rounders with us kids .
Happy days !
Who remembers the most folk in a family car no seat belt rules back in the day three in the front five in the back lol . "
yeah sometimes with cousins |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
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"I've lived up here a few years and never been as not lived close enough.
Now living in Glasgow, is this something worth going to? I would be by myself but that wouldn't bother me unless it's more family orientated??Been where ? You got the right post ? "
I think he has. It's not a travelling fair. The fair was the annual 2 weeks summer holiday, when all the different industries shut down.
Each area had a different 2 weeks but many of them over lapped.
We used to go camping around Scotland,usually in the rain Then on 1 occasioned went to the south west of England and it rained there as well. The tent blew inside out because of the high winds.
The fair down here finished at the weekend and those that still take it would have gone back to work this morning |
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"I've lived up here a few years and never been as not lived close enough.
Now living in Glasgow, is this something worth going to? I would be by myself but that wouldn't bother me unless it's more family orientated??Been where ? You got the right post ?
I think he has. It's not a travelling fair. The fair was the annual 2 weeks summer holiday, when all the different industries shut down.
Each area had a different 2 weeks but many of them over lapped.
We used to go camping around Scotland,usually in the rain Then on 1 occasioned went to the south west of England and it rained there as well. The tent blew inside out because of the high winds.
The fair down here finished at the weekend and those that still take it would have gone back to work this morning"
Ah ok so it's not like some big festival thing held in Glasgow? I knew Glasgow shut down for the 2 weeks but always thought there was some big mad festival bit like Edinburgh having the Fringe.
Will this be why my doctors are shut today for what it says is a public holiday? |
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"I've lived up here a few years and never been as not lived close enough.
Now living in Glasgow, is this something worth going to? I would be by myself but that wouldn't bother me unless it's more family orientated??Been where ? You got the right post ?
I think he has. It's not a travelling fair. The fair was the annual 2 weeks summer holiday, when all the different industries shut down.
Each area had a different 2 weeks but many of them over lapped.
We used to go camping around Scotland,usually in the rain Then on 1 occasioned went to the south west of England and it rained there as well. The tent blew inside out because of the high winds.
The fair down here finished at the weekend and those that still take it would have gone back to work this morning
Ah ok so it's not like some big festival thing held in Glasgow? I knew Glasgow shut down for the 2 weeks but always thought there was some big mad festival bit like Edinburgh having the Fringe.
Will this be why my doctors are shut today for what it says is a public holiday?"
Im sure there’s a lot of stuff goes on at Glasgow green |
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"I've lived up here a few years and never been as not lived close enough.
Now living in Glasgow, is this something worth going to? I would be by myself but that wouldn't bother me unless it's more family orientated??Been where ? You got the right post ?
I think he has. It's not a travelling fair. The fair was the annual 2 weeks summer holiday, when all the different industries shut down.
Each area had a different 2 weeks but many of them over lapped.
We used to go camping around Scotland,usually in the rain Then on 1 occasioned went to the south west of England and it rained there as well. The tent blew inside out because of the high winds.
The fair down here finished at the weekend and those that still take it would have gone back to work this morning
Ah ok so it's not like some big festival thing held in Glasgow? I knew Glasgow shut down for the 2 weeks but always thought there was some big mad festival bit like Edinburgh having the Fringe.
Will this be why my doctors are shut today for what it says is a public holiday?Im sure there’s a lot of stuff goes on at Glasgow green "
I'm down there now having a walk but not came across anything, and I've not seen anything going on where I live just over the bridge from the green. |
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"I've lived up here a few years and never been as not lived close enough.
Now living in Glasgow, is this something worth going to? I would be by myself but that wouldn't bother me unless it's more family orientated??Been where ? You got the right post ?
I think he has. It's not a travelling fair. The fair was the annual 2 weeks summer holiday, when all the different industries shut down.
Each area had a different 2 weeks but many of them over lapped.
We used to go camping around Scotland,usually in the rain Then on 1 occasioned went to the south west of England and it rained there as well. The tent blew inside out because of the high winds.
The fair down here finished at the weekend and those that still take it would have gone back to work this morning
Ah ok so it's not like some big festival thing held in Glasgow? I knew Glasgow shut down for the 2 weeks but always thought there was some big mad festival bit like Edinburgh having the Fringe.
Will this be why my doctors are shut today for what it says is a public holiday?Im sure there’s a lot of stuff goes on at Glasgow green
I'm down there now having a walk but not came across anything, and I've not seen anything going on where I live just over the bridge from the green. "
perhaps they stoped doing it then .
Pandemic probably hasn’t helped and maybe no one’s started it up again but I’m positive loads of stuff went on there . |
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"I've lived up here a few years and never been as not lived close enough.
Now living in Glasgow, is this something worth going to? I would be by myself but that wouldn't bother me unless it's more family orientated??Been where ? You got the right post ?
I think he has. It's not a travelling fair. The fair was the annual 2 weeks summer holiday, when all the different industries shut down.
Each area had a different 2 weeks but many of them over lapped.
We used to go camping around Scotland,usually in the rain Then on 1 occasioned went to the south west of England and it rained there as well. The tent blew inside out because of the high winds.
The fair down here finished at the weekend and those that still take it would have gone back to work this morning
Ah ok so it's not like some big festival thing held in Glasgow? I knew Glasgow shut down for the 2 weeks but always thought there was some big mad festival bit like Edinburgh having the Fringe.
Will this be why my doctors are shut today for what it says is a public holiday?Im sure there’s a lot of stuff goes on at Glasgow green
I'm down there now having a walk but not came across anything, and I've not seen anything going on where I live just over the bridge from the green. perhaps they stoped doing it then .
Pandemic probably hasn’t helped and maybe no one’s started it up again but I’m positive loads of stuff went on there ."
Usually a fairground at Bridgeton end . |
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"I was usually on the way to Ayr for a week things were totally different in those days . Most go off to hotter foreign climates I’m not a sun worshipper so unless there’s aircon it’s a no from me . They sure we’re different back then but great fun .
I remember at nighttime’s us all going to different vans for the adults to have a wee drink then once the booze kicked in they would come out and play rounders with us kids .
Happy days !
Who remembers the most folk in a family car no seat belt rules back in the day three in the front five in the back lol . "
Remember 3 of us being in the boot of a hatchback all the way to Ayr. Think it was a Toyota sunbeam |
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"I was usually on the way to Ayr for a week things were totally different in those days . Most go off to hotter foreign climates I’m not a sun worshipper so unless there’s aircon it’s a no from me . They sure we’re different back then but great fun .
I remember at nighttime’s us all going to different vans for the adults to have a wee drink then once the booze kicked in they would come out and play rounders with us kids .
Happy days !
Who remembers the most folk in a family car no seat belt rules back in the day three in the front five in the back lol .
Remember 3 of us being in the boot of a hatchback all the way to Ayr. Think it was a Toyota sunbeam "
I’ve had a few estate car in my days allegedly had 9 passengers .  |
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Middle of the school holidays, right at the heart of the summertime, so usually pishing down. When I was wee, it was family holidays in Blackpool or down the Ayrshire coast. All the big works shut down for the fortnight, dad got three weeks wages, and Largs had a two weeks hyperinflation. You met half your neighbourhood in Blackpool or Morecambe. It's much changed. |
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By *el65Man
over a year ago
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For us it was a week in Saltcoats a one bedroom flat with a scullery and a outside toilet lol oh and at jest a dozen of us mostly weans granny and ma would get a compendium of game first day as no telly and that was the nights sorted out lol
And we loved it lol |
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"I read recently that it's the oldest non religious public holiday in the world. Started in the 1600s i think.
It dates back to 1190. "
Really, wow. Go Glasgow |
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By *ndiiiMan
over a year ago
Paisley Scotland |
Caravans and rain
God help you if you burst the gas mantle!!!
Endless games of cards!!!!
Changing the gas bottle.
That noise as the rain battered the caravan
I still hate the noise of rain battering down on a Tesco roof, scared for life! |
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