A super clear photo kindly shared by Gordon Cook and Alex Rochead, exclusively seen online here for the first time. The scene features St Joseph’s Church on Glasgow Road. The full photo coming shortly, but for now from around 1929, I was interested particularly in not just the beautiful church erected 24 years earlier, but […]
This is perhaps my most favourite poem by the late Jimmy Cornfield. Written in 2005, it details the events leading up to and around the construction of the church, which Jimmy has cleverly put into prose. Pictured alongside this poem, exclusively shown online for the first time is the St Joseph’s Church during the […]
John M ‘Master Findlay lived at Dock Street, Glasgow, and by 1942 in the middle of WW2, had been fifteen years in the merchant navy. In August of that year, he set what was surely a record for Scotland by creating something of record in carrying out the arrangements for his marriage. When his ship […]