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church66
Cues.
Glenhead Social Club V The Peel Glen .
We'd just sent them packing early night etc and I left my cue at the Cigarette Machine at the swing doors and ordered a pint at the Bar then made room for the pint in the toilets and returned as The Peel Glen were leaving and my cue is just gone so I asked team mates did you see where my cues gone ? No they said and I ran out to aske The Peel Glen team have any of you's seen / got my cue but they jumped into their cars . I never seen that cue ever again , always looked for it when we played them . It was like my magic wand had been stolen and if asked it could place the cue ball at my command to a pin point but it was stolen . Bought a new cue but it was no good , team mate Hugh gave me a cue , try this as I was at the point of packing it all in .
church66
1984/85-1994.1995 .
That was my playing days/nights and thinking back I'm pretty sure I was the only to have stuck through the thick and thin and when it was brilliant it was truely brilliant but when it was bad , it couldn't get any worse .For example in the early days we were so good we could turn up with 7 players and win the singles 7-0 and head home early but when it was bad same deal trounced and sent home early doors lol !
church66
Players .
As a player in the early days I was good but I just couldn't grasp the League rules so maybe 3rd or 4th best in the team at the end of the season , it was just a night out for me , escapism from the nightmare of married life . I was there in the early days when the table fees went from 10p to 15p and the table was empty , whats up I asked , why's nobody on the table ? We're not paying 15p for a game lol , same when it went up to 20p then 30p then 40p then 50p , think it's £1 a game nowadays .
church66
The Glenhead Social Club Pool Team .
That's how it all began , Thursday night's Pool competition and one night Eddie S called us over and it's right I'm going to start a Pool Team , who want's in ? We need at least 8 players for 8 singles matches and 4 Doubles matches so who's in ? Quite a lot of people put their names in the hat , not everyone got a game but it was all new and exciting to be involved in , playing in the new pubs and venues you'd never have went to , new people & players it was all just brilliant . To win the B League in the first season and finish runners up , just pipped in the League Cup , just brilliant memories .
church66
Glenhead Social Club Pool Team .
Without Eddie S , there would've been no Pool Team , he ran the Thursday night Pool tournaments , 50p a head entry , bottle of spirits to the winner , half bottle to the runner up or cans of lager - beer equivalent lol Those were the days my friend lol !
church66
Eddie S .
What a character he was , always in the Glenhead Social Club/Hibs day or night sitting near the pool table playing/holding the table or just watching games being played . Eddie was from Falkirk , they had a Pool League and he played for their team but travelled through to Duntocher for a family funeral at the Haye family who were on the Glenhead Social Club Committee and Geordiw was on Ground staff duty and once in they just couldn't get rid of Eddy S . He was a player alright moderate and beatable when sober but give that man a few beers he commanded the table for all hours of the day and night .
church66
https://duntocher.cylex-uk.co.uk/company/glenhead-social-club-19833689.html
I was underage but desperate for something new and at the swing doors I thought what is on the other side and what if people say he's underage ? I will say I'm Raymond my older adopted brother and I opened the swing doors and the first thing that hit me was the smoke and it was too late , half the street were in there boozing away , they all knew me , standing there in my Mod Militia Boating Blazer , white shirt , inch wide black tie with The Specials logo , sta press or denims , can't remember but wearing black and white Spatz shoes and it's here we go .
church66
Glenhead Social Club , Farm Road , Duntocher .
https://www.facebook.com/glenheadsocialclub/
Sir Alex Ferguson unveils portrait of Drumchapel Amateurs founder Douglas Smith in the Scottish Football Museum
February 20, 2014NewsGemma Muirhead :
https://scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk/sir-alex-ferguson-unveils-portrait-of-drumchapel-amateurs-founder-douglas-smith-in-the-scottish-football-museum/
Knocking in high breaks for fun on the 6x3 Snooker table and it's Dad has The Malting , West End Bar , O'Donnell's or The Duntiglennan Bar got a full size Snooker table ? Oh , what makes you ask that said Dad , oh I just want to know . No maybe Pool Tables , full size Snooker tables? You need to ask somebody else said Dad , the Pubs here aren't big enough .
church66
Duntocher - Where I live .
I'm not a Duntocherite , I was born in the next village called Hardgate so if anything I'm a Hardgatonian , lol ! The Duntocher village elders used to tell me when I was growing up that this place stopped being a village in the 1960's when George Wimpy builders bought up farmers land to build houses for the banks and strangers bought into this place and the days of leaving your front door and windows ended .
church66
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax - Extended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okzmGI-Paj8
Just like when the BBC banned The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen from TV and Radio and it went to Number One in the Charts it made sales go through the roof I liked Frankie , they were different so I bought into them and my sister liked them so we had a good few Frankie vinyls between us lol !
church66
Clydebank . Then and now - 3 .
The old St Eunanas Primary , demolished due to asbestos contamination to be a raised beds community garden . Big Tams Newsagent , demolished and rebuilt The Clydebank District Council Offices demolished and an overgrown wasteland . The Doublet Bar , Faifley , demolished for housing . The Cinema/Bingo Hall that became The Crucible Snooker Hall an iconic Art Deco building , demolished for housing and I could go on but I much preferred the old Clydebank compared to nowadays . St'Columba's High School got demolished and they built the new St Eunans Primary School there and St Columba's became St Peter The Apostle High School built nearby . The old shop across from the old High School , demolished for houses .
church66
Clydebank . Then and now - 2 .
The Steedman brothers sold out Clydebank Fc and sold Kilbowie Park to the Shopping Centre and pretty soon Clydebank Fc slipped down the football Leagues until they finally went out of business and folded . Clydebank Collage got demolished and they built a housing estate that looks like it was made from Lego Bricks and the Collage relocated to the Clydeside Riverbank and isn't easy to get to . St'Columba's High School got demolished and they built the new St Eunans Primary School there and St Columba's became St Peter The Apostle High School built nearby . The old shop across from the old High School , demolished for houses .
church66
Clydebank . Then and now - 1
Growing up here you couldn't wait to leave school , all the shops on Kilbowie Road had tenement flats above and there was a Snooker Hall just across the road from Singers Train Station and I always thought I can't wait until I'm old enougt to go there for a game but it all got demolished to make way for the new Shopping Centre in the mid to late 1970's . At St Columba's High School we all thought we were leaving school for a job at Singers Sewing Machine Factory but PM Margaret Thatcher got in , 1979 and it got shut down and demolished for a Business Park and the Shipyards shed thousands of jobs so that idea was gone .
church66
Skynews .
Round about this time of night I switch TV channels to Skynews to see what's happening around the world and if this Corona Virus isn't w global pandemic I don't know what a pandemic is so stay safe folks !
church66
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon suggested as from Monday all events with an audience of 500 people attending may be banned so that gives the go ahead to the Rangers V Celtic football match on Sunday at Noon kick off . There was maybe 50,000 fans at tonight's match :
THU 12 MAR 2020EUROPA LEAGUE - ROUND OF 16 - 1ST LEG
1
3
Edmundson (75'minutes)
FT
HT 0-1
Havertz (37'minutes pen), Aránguiz (67'minutes), Bailey (88'minutes)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51726183

It's all looking rather grim in the world of sports .

Mikel Arteta: Arsenal manager tests positive for coronavirus :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51865442
church66
Coronavirus: People with fever or 'continuous' cough told to self-isolate :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51857856
PM Boris 'Bonkers' Johnson's previous advise was to wash our hands whilst singing the Happy Birthday song then dry our hands . Today there was a COBRA government meeting and he said we've to prepare for losing loved ones . BBC1 Question Time is just starting I usually play spot the Tory plant in the audience but best tune in to hear if there's any advice on the Corona Virus .
church66
This book predicted 2020 coronavirus outbreak 12 years ago. Trending now :

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