The Third: "Sugarolly"

The Third: "Sugarolly".

This time around it's all about the street games in old Glesca. We hear all about the wee toerags wreaking havoc with the tenement folk tying their doors together with rope, catching hudgies at the BRS depot in Lister Street, being chased by Limpy Dan from the Kennedy Street playground, making what sounds to have been a very early poor man's version of soda stream drinks except with a particularly dodgy ingredient, and playing endless football through dinner which consisted of jeely pieces thrown down by the parents from the windows above.

Ah yes, you might get your PS3s and your HD TVs nowadays, but if the kids of today were to listen to this episode, without a shadow of doubt they'd choose "kick the can" or "dreep the dyke" over all your fancy technology any day. Ahem...

Aye, cum awa in fae ra cauld!

Hello there, and welcome to Glasgow Generations.

My name's Scott Docherty, and in the coming weeks, months, maybe even years, I'll be recording with my Dad, Charlie Docherty, a wee podcast designed to cast your mind back to what it was like growing up and living in Glasgow after WWII.

Over time you'll hear my Dad's memories of the tenements in the Townhead area of the City, playing kick door run, fitba and marbles in the street, jumping the backcourt dykes avoiding the middens below, watching the Queen's Coronation on the street's first TV, trying to catch the jeely pieces flung down fae ra windaes, going to the Carlton and the Grafton to watch a Western, enjoying the lemonade stalls at the street parties while running after the rag and bone men, and hearing about the No Mean City beyond.

There'll be reflections on how music's always been at the heart of Glasgow, what the old games between the Auld Firm were like as a kid as well as what it felt when the real Hampden Roar was raised.  Anything and everything really, and the hope is that as you listen away, you'll remember a few things of your own you might want to share, and I'll be setting up a Skype line & contact form so you can leave a wee message or email we can put into the episodes.

So the first one should be available soon and I'll post whenever a new show's out.

Yours aye...