It was a wee bad then.This could have been us, because these places are over 30 years old. The 84-year-old, who suffers with dementia, was last seen on the number 57 bus on Bath Street in Glasgow city centre. You could buy cheap vodka here, you could buy cheap champagne up these flats, buy drugs out the flats, buy tobacco out the flats, buy butcher meat by the butcher. There would have been seven of us, my gran, my grandpa, my mum, my aunt and the three of us. I'm going to try and keep it mixed, playing a mixture of northern soul, ska, garage punk, Latin, 60s' R&B and everything the night is known for".Divine enjoyed a 22-year-long residence at the Art School, and saw plenty of touring musicians such as Jarvis Cocker, Courtney Love and Jack White drop in on a Saturday night, and became an essential hub for After the Art School closed for refurbishment, Divine! [inaudible 00:40:36] the flats. Duke Street is a street in Glasgow, Scotland. It was five or six families, all with kids the same age and we always ran about together.There was always children out playing and people standing, talking at closes and it was a community street, I would say. We were just lucky we got in early doors, and we love it to bits. But it was a great school. He disagreed with that. He had the community, and he was determined 100% to save it.Reidville became one of the very first community-based housing associations in Glasgow, and this immediately gave them access to central government grants of millions of pounds. Forget your London Eastenders, we’re the Eastenders. Throws a lot of light into what would be a dark space. Jerry, you’ll be in Craigpott. They’re broke again.Soaring 30 stories high, and each containing 174 flats, they were the tallest occupied buildings in Scotland.That’s, I think, the tallest, but the biggest majority of people that stays here are really good, honest citizens.
This is my old landing. Built too close to the railway line and the homes that sit underneath, they can’t be blown up. It’s all a bit mad, but I think people got pretty blasé. Cheers. So, that was my hobbies, and they sort of were egg hunting and making friends and building dens and just being free.

And this here is a playground, a area where you can see the clothesline.

A lot of people knew this as the [inaudible 00:46:52] area, but that wall, that’s never really changed. My friend Ann Lowry always came with me. On Tuesday, police confirmed the body of a man was found near Wallacewell Road in Glasgow around 9.15am.
The public baths were a gift to the local population from a wealthy benefactor.Once a week, walk down this road with my pram with all the washing in it, and we came here to do the weekly wash.Luxurious for their time, they boasted a Turkish bath, a gymnasium and a reading room. They brought one Texas Steer, four cows and a herd of 18 buffalo, which were all herded up the street. That’s what Easter House was about.Sometimes it seems as if there are more removal vans seen in Glasgow than buses. But thanks to the development of the A90 and the M9, traffic on the A9 has lightened up, making it perfect for a driving tour of Scotland , when you drive from Glasgow … People feel that they’re supported, and there’s a sense of place, where they are.So, it’s that kind of thing, that you continue to talk about it. We just wanted to smash the government up. Second, to persuade all their neighbors to join them.The houses were in disrepair. I mean, I don’t know much where the idea came from, but it was very new, especially in Glasgow.The residents faced two big problems. It doesn’t matter where you been. Duke Street, Glasgow. So, there was a bunk bed with myself and my twin brother and my older brother, and then there was a double bed which had my mum and my aunty June in it.John and his wife were home movie enthusiasts. And this is where I used to live, 47 Bathgate Street.

We had Harriet in 47.And when we all got together, we made things happen.So, people in the area thought, “That’s the Bathgate Street Mafia.”And their boss was John Butterly. I certainly didn’t want to come and live in Easterhouse. So, this was in the sitting room of the house next door, and now it’s a nice kitchen.Personally, I feel moving from a small room and kitchen, toilet, into a three bedroom, bathroom, kitchen house was, to me, absolutely [inaudible 00:51:37] It was like moving into a mansion.This three bedroom flat is now rented from Reidville by her daughter, Vicky.Vicky’s twin brother lives just straight across the ridge. My other daughter lives in Thompson Street, so she’s not far away, either.As the residents of the south side moved back into their refurbished, and now desirable, homes, so this was influencing the whole of Duke Street, and the north side was changing, too.Okay, everyone, thanks for coming along today. It was brilliant. We left from here, and we done a march right all the way around, past Glasgow Cathedral, and came back down High Street and joined Knox Street, all in protest at the fact of their closing a school down.Hundreds of kids and children gathered outside [inaudible 00:49:07] headquarters before the meeting. It wasn’t so bad when I was younger.

It’s nice, yeah?