This a photo of St. Bartholomew's School boys taken on the 27th May 1950. The boys in the photo will be age 70, some of them are now deceased and some of them might be still in the Coatbridge area, I have the list of most of the names of the ones that I can remember, the ones with the question marks not known.
Back row left to right- Jimmy Hannaway, Jim Docherty, Emit McGuire, Tosh Hay, Docherty, Mullan, Bernard Chomsky.
Back row 2, Ian leach, Diamond, McNearn, ?, Mitchell, ? Pat McLeary, Pat Getchal, Pat Quinn, Hands.
3rd row, McCracken, John Plunket, ?, L. Molloy, Joe Chanley, ?, Gallagher
4th row,?, Eddie Mackay, Jim Laidlaw, Pat Leonard, John Vallenty, John Hamill, Peter McGlade, Arthur McGivern. John Farrell,
Apologize for some of the spelling or names.
Writen by Arthur McGivern. (Digger 1).
Click here or on the photo for a larger copy including the list of names!!
Art Today - now living in Canada
Showing off Peter Drummond & James Smiths book -
COATBRIDGE
Three Centuries of Change
Art spent some years living in the Slap up - read some of the comments on that area on the forum at
Plus a slide show and more comments at http://www.monklands.co.uk/slapup/index.htm
also Slide show of area as it is today http://www.monklands.co.uk/slapup/modern1.htm
slap up
by sugaroly » June 27th, 2011, 8:43 pm
unlikly as it seems i wonder if there are any photos of the slums known as the slap up. There is one of turner st taken from where the bank social now stands. Is there any of kirk st , maybe jeany vovo's chip shop or kate devoys on turner st.
It was my first home hence the interest
Re: slap up
by jonnel » July 9th, 2011, 4:28 pm
The old "slap up" houses were "Slapped up" by builders but the residents looked after them and kept them neat and shiny - if a little dilapidated!
I have been looking for photos of the area for some time but no luck so far. If you have any stories or photos please email me!!
The area consisted of Buchanan, Kirk, Oxford, Henderson and Turner Streets. This area is now completely different - good housing = some very new!
John
Re: slap up
by sugaroly » July 18th, 2011, 10:56 am
HI John, I think including buchanan st and oxford st in the equation is stretching it a bit. I left there in 1948 as a 5 year old and my memories are very faint. we had coal fires so the coal man had one helluva job. I can not remember if it was gas or electric lighting prob the former.
sugaroly
Re: slap up
by jonnel » July 24th, 2011, 6:50 pm
Some pics have been added to
I hope you or anyone can identify them??